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Date: Thu May 24, 2012 6:39 pm ((PDT))
Jez wrote:
> The 'best' mixing environment isn't a 'properly
> designed listening space' at all.
I would have to disagree. If you don't have a listening space tuned to be a=
s neutral as possible, then it's colouring what you are hearing. Any attemp=
t to mix in such an environment is inevitably going to produce results that=
have difficulty translating to other listeners.
Of course, their listening environment is highly unlikely to be ideal, but =
that is no reason that the mix environment should be poor as well! Two wron=
gs don't make a right.
> record without listening to the recording
> activity - so recording without monitoring
> the equipment. This isn't because I don't
> care about the recording - far from it.
> For me its to do with getting closer to
> the act of listening in situ.
I now where you're coming from there. If you don't know what the sounds wer=
e like in situ then you have no hope of trying to reproduce them later on. =
Listening with both ears -- and your full body -- is often preferable to be=
ing trapped in headphones for the duration of the session.
-- Robin Parmar
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