<<Of course the best mixing
environment is a properly designed listening space with top class
loudspeakers with five zeroes in its cost, but if you put up a mic in
there, you will get some very odd results. The final mix is to be
listened to on a home system with no acoustic treatment and
indifferent speakers and will sound very different from the mixing
studio.>>
It will sound different in the home listening environment than in the studi=
o, however, it is the job description & the art of the recording & masterin=
g engineers to insure that the final product translates well into all possi=
ble playback scenarios. It will be different, but if the engineer does his/=
her job right it will not be different to the point that vital information =
in the balance & spectrum is obscured or given inappropriate emphasis. This=
task is accomplished successfully on a daily basis, so I guess we must be =
doing something correctly.
Scott Fraser
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