TheZebraKilledDarwin
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Human hearing cannot reconstruct direct sound awash in indirect sound. Therefore it's impossible to hear details in a mix in reverberant rooms, if the indirect sound is too high.
That's the reason why great mixes can be made on uncorrected, even bad sounding speakers: because the mixers learn how their speakers sound and how they translate. But it's not possible, to make a good sounding mix, in an untreated room. In an untreated room it's not even possible to get the reverb levels right, because the room on the track cannot be judged. Not even to mention to hear the kind of reverb as customer: is it a plate or a hall? Is it with or without predelay? Is it a small room or a slapback program? All that was carefully decided and is in the mix and can be heard - but only in acoustically treated environments (or on headphones).
Anyone who is listening to high levels of indirect sound, is depriving himself of any details.
I don't want to even get talking about movies. The beauty of people talking in a bathroom and then walking down the hallway, going outside. A endless amazing sonic adventure that cannot be heard with high levels of indirect room sound.
That's the reason why great mixes can be made on uncorrected, even bad sounding speakers: because the mixers learn how their speakers sound and how they translate. But it's not possible, to make a good sounding mix, in an untreated room. In an untreated room it's not even possible to get the reverb levels right, because the room on the track cannot be judged. Not even to mention to hear the kind of reverb as customer: is it a plate or a hall? Is it with or without predelay? Is it a small room or a slapback program? All that was carefully decided and is in the mix and can be heard - but only in acoustically treated environments (or on headphones).
Anyone who is listening to high levels of indirect sound, is depriving himself of any details.
I don't want to even get talking about movies. The beauty of people talking in a bathroom and then walking down the hallway, going outside. A endless amazing sonic adventure that cannot be heard with high levels of indirect room sound.