This will lead to another precarious presupposition, “ if you check your mixes on different audio systems, then you can get the industry standard mix.” What should matter is what you are hearing out of most speakers. What he meant by saying this was, that it doesn’t matter which plugin you are using for compression, EQ-ing or Stereo enhancement. The ideas behind mixing is very simple, “It doesn’t matter what you do inside your Digital Audio Workstation, what matters is what comes out of your speakers”, I'm directly quoting Andrew Scheps, one of the finest mixing and mastering engineer. What do you really think, the mixing engineers are using some secret plugins and hardware which helps them make their mixes magically sound better than the rest of us? That is utter non-sense. Well to be very honest, the secrets are already out there. Myth 3: You cannot mix your track ever in your life, you’ll always need a mixing or mastering engineer to make your track sound like industry standard, since these guys won’t share their secrets. I am saving you some time here, either you’re going to learn the hard way or the easy way, the choice would be completely yours. The result would be getting frustrated, questioning your own mixing decisions and choices you’ve made in life and finally hiring a mixing and mastering engineer to get it done the right way. Myth 2: Having Studio Monitors is more than enough you don’t need acoustic treatment.įor this myth to break down, I’ll have to explain all about acoustic problems of a non-acoustically treated room, which would take an entire module for me to explain, so there is soon going to be a course on acoustic treatment in the audio engineering module where I’ll be explaining all of these issues to bust these myths, so make sure to check that out and stay tuned for more content in the All Access Pass of LSA. No matter how hard you try, it is not going to be easy to mix a track in a consumer audio system, with or without reference track, period. By doing this, you’re not only fooling yourself. Having such a notion of listening to music on a conventional consumer audio system and making it susceptible to ears by mixing on a consumer system. It takes some time, for our ears to adapt to these monitoring systems and when they do, our ears start to making judgements based on the perceived listening of the music that we are used to. When we hear the same track on any flat frequency sound monitoring system, we start hating what we are listening to. Listening to music on our conventional consumer audio systems has made our ears accustomed to certain frequencies. We train our ears in an environment which is not used to our ears. Myth 1: If you have the ear, you can mix on any monitoring system.įirstly, developing an ear means, getting tuned to flat frequency response. Just because a few things worked for you, doesn’t mean it work for the rest of us. But the kind of misinformation they spread is something which is intolerant and appalling at the same time. See, I honestly don’t have a beef with them, I admire the people who have made a name in the industry on their own. These myths are again spread by self-proclaimed audio enthusiasts and engineers. I have heard a lot of myths from my students which I am going to bust today. The flat frequency response can be achieved by using simple techniques which Sonarworks uses called as “Corrective Equalization”.īut before we even go into the nitty-grittiy of room correction, we need to understand, why there is a need for it in the first place. This software is used to achieve a flat frequency response. Although the reflections need to be taken care of by us, the rest can be taken care by a software called Sonarworks Reference. But getting rid of reflections isn’t the only reason why our room might need acoustic treatment there are so many other things to look out for.Ĭritical Frequency, Standing Waves, Comb Filtering, Bass buildups, etc. There are many things we need to add or remove to make sure that the reflections are completely dead, and the room to be absolutely quiet. A lot of effortful work is needed to establish an isolated soundproof environment. So, let’s get started.Īcoustic engineer’s main aim is to achieve a flat frequency response. The answer is simple but also complicated, the dichotomous nature of the question makes it quite difficult to explain the reason in a simplified manner, hence the blog. A lot of my students ask me this question quite often, “Why Sonarworks SoundID Reference?”.
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