Phunkfarm Studios
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So I just went trough the painstaking process of tuning my room and got the setting saved.
I then proceeded to do a few mixes to see how well I was translating to the new room tune. Without fail, My mixes always translate badly in that on other systems, the kick and bass are far too hot on other systems although they sound awesome in my tuned lab. The other aspects of my mixes are fantastic so I do appreciate what the overall tune has done to the overall sound.
The way I see it at this point is do try a few things:
It's mind boggling to me that adding a subwoofer could make my mixes translate hot in the low frequencies elsewhere.... Seems totally ass backwards as my car - for instance doesn't even have a sub.
Help!
I then proceeded to do a few mixes to see how well I was translating to the new room tune. Without fail, My mixes always translate badly in that on other systems, the kick and bass are far too hot on other systems although they sound awesome in my tuned lab. The other aspects of my mixes are fantastic so I do appreciate what the overall tune has done to the overall sound.
The way I see it at this point is do try a few things:
- Manually increase my sub level (on back of unit from the recommended 100 to 108 or 114) so I can then subliminally back off the lows in my mixes. (not sure if the gain switch positions are overridden when in network mode). There is also a potentiometer gain knob next to the gain switches that may be active in network mode if the switches aren't.
- retune the room and add in bass in the parametric eq settings provided after the process. Remix some more material and play around until I get better translations.
- (least favorite option) Create a global eq that I manually switch on when I bounce my Logic sequence to wav after I mix in order to compensate for translations. This seems to defeat the point of having such expensive monitors.
It's mind boggling to me that adding a subwoofer could make my mixes translate hot in the low frequencies elsewhere.... Seems totally ass backwards as my car - for instance doesn't even have a sub.
Help!
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