While editing a rain recording I'd made yesterday, I suddenly wondered, how=
do other, critically eared people, listen to their recordings while editin=
g? What I mean is, do you listen to them with the default amp setting, or w=
ith either bass/treble or equalizer adjustment?
In my particular case, when listening to either edited or commercial sound,=
I adjust via graphic equalizer (computer) or bass/treble (hi-fi), to compe=
nsate mainly for high frequency hearing loss. What I find odd is, that it w=
as only yesterday for the first time, that I did this while editing! I have=
an Asus Xonar Essence STX card in my computer, which is a reference qualit=
y headphone amp primarily, but I use it with my monitors also. With this, I=
normally leave the equalizer setting on 'Default' while editing. But yeste=
rday, out of the blue, because I wasn't particularly impressed with what I =
was hearing from the point of view of reality, it suddenly occurred to me t=
o use the equalizer. I was very quickly hearing a wet dripping rain sound t=
hat was far closer to what I was hoping to achieve! You may all think what =
an idiot, but to me it was unnerving, because I realised that previous reco=
rdings that had been binned, may not have been as bad as thought at the tim=
e.
Just curious
Max
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