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autoflavor,
Thanks again! Spent some time doing a few things: switching back and forth between my music speakers and recording monitors. Looking at EQ when using the music speakers and dialing back the overblown bass so that part of the EQ isn't going berserk. Then switching back to monitors and noticing how much the bass is lowered and trying to get my brain to think "ok, this is right."
Also dropped a reference track and looked at the EQ on that. Lastly, used Match EQ from that reference track to shape the whole thing and it's much better now.
When I'd used match EQ before, it sounded so vastly different and I get why: I was always overblowing the bass to compensate for the lack of it in the monitors, and listening to the reference track almost always on regular speakers.
Not sure if I want to get a sub or not... in the end I think the headphones / regular speakers method is going to help my use my ear a lot better to dial things in.
- Another thing to consider is what is happening to the bass waves when they leaves your monitors.mort_
- Without careful monitor positioning you could be getting false bass build up or phase cancellation.mort_
- Get the monitors away from corners and walls if you can. Like 3 feet away. Positioning makes a huge difference.mort_
- THIS x100000autoflavour
- just remember that listening to headphones will always give you a skewed perception.. you skull is reverberant and low frequencies are emphasisedautoflavour
- Did not know that about headphones! In fact I added a sub to my setup because I was hearing more lower freqs in my headphones.mort_
- The sub definitely gets right down there but also kind of complicated things. Still tweaking trying to find the right ratio.mort_
- subs are great if the space can handle them.. my studio regardless of how I tried wouldn't. apart from everything shaking and rumbling, it just didn't flowautoflavour