At 11:19 PM +0000 3/27/09, escalation746 wrote:
>Rob Danielson wrote:
>
>> "Flat" monitoring of the lowest octaves with both
>> headphones and speakers is pretty much mandatory and room peaks and
>> dips in the lowest octaves (where they most often occur) make the
>> practice futile.
>
>Quite a paradox! And one many of us are used to dealing with... by
>compromising.
>
>-- robin
>
Hi Robin--
There are two alternatives to endless compromise (which can become
disheartening).
One is to equalize _each_ recording in the same place, on the same
speaker(s) and in the same spot that others will hear it. (You do
installations if I recall correctly?) No shortcuts allowed though.
There's a huge compromise in the impact if you mix/equalize on
speakers in your studio and drag them to the installation space. Each
recording will have to be re-equalized for that space to restore the
impact.
The other method is to mix/equalize on quality headphones and supply
your audience with pairs of identical phones. This a very workable,
"no-compromise" solution for making presentations to small groups. I
elected to go with phones for an important meeting a few years ago
that cost me $70 each. Including a headphone amp, I equipped myself
and six others for the cost one one good, reference quality speaker
($600). You can try to get by with cheaper phones but they're awfully
hard on the ears and taxing on one's EQ skills.
More and more, people use phones-- especially for computer for
delivery and consumption. For all I know, there may be dsp
"calibraton" applications that one can use to adjust one's headphones
with eq to the artists' reference. As you probably know or have
guessed, two channel broad bandwidth field recordings are a lot more
demanding to represent than music. Rob D.
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