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offline Brisk from selling smack at the orphanage on 2010-06-07 12:05 [#02382838]
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Oh, I know sir. I've spent thousands of pound on audio gear,
especially for monitoring and I also know quite a bit about
mastering in general. I just think that in the audio chain,
the room comes way down the list next to a pair of good
monitors, some decent headphones (I use HD800s and they're
by far the best tool I have for making sure the mix is
right) and most importantly, the music itself.

That said, i'm not disagreeing with anything said in here.

Every track i've had mastered hasn't needed much change in
mastering (bar the usual compression etc), and we used to
use one of the best mastering houses in the world... so i'm
personally pretty happy with my monitoring situation in my
room!


 

offline elusive from detroit (United States) on 2010-06-07 12:24 [#02382840]
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"room comes way down on the list"

LOL, M8.

garbage in garbage out. your room makes the final call on
how everything sounds. the cavalier tone in which you
shrugg offf room treatments is quite laughable.



 

offline Brisk from selling smack at the orphanage on 2010-06-07 12:32 [#02382841]
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I'm not shrugging it off. All i'm saying is are you honestly
putting the room ahead of the monitors and the music itself
in the production chain?

Unless your room has a glass floor and is in the middle of a
stadium surrounded by a giant bubble, it's just less
important. Still important, but just less so than the others
I mentioned.


 

offline Brisk from selling smack at the orphanage on 2010-06-07 12:53 [#02382843]
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I should also add that when your music is finally published
and out there, it's gonna be heard in so many
rooms/cars/radios etc that it's never gonna sound the same
in two places anyway.

I always do final monitoring on my headphones as they're the
flattest, most perfect monitoring tool I have. I do all
bass/initial monitoring on proper studio monitors in my
mates place, but i'm actually pretty good at monitoring bass
on my HD800s now, mainly cos they're so flat and accurate.
Thats just the way I prefer to do things and it usually
works, especially for the kind of music I produce.


 

offline csl on 2010-06-07 13:15 [#02382845]
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Sounds like you got lucky with the room! :) I'm envious;
I've had to really hammer the previous rooms I've been
working in into a usable state.


 

offline elusive from detroit (United States) on 2010-06-07 13:25 [#02382846]
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brisk,
"loads of producers have crappy monitors/setups but
still
make amazing music. i'm with jivver - many audiophiles get
too obsessed with the speakers/room and listen to that more
than the music itself. "


jiv,
"I agree with Elusive to an extent but that's like number
5
on the list to tick. I wouldn't enjoy the pure excellence
of the bass tones on a five hour DJ set from Dane Bowers,
or
an accomplished mix of Jordans top ten favourite audio
cuddles.
"


yeah, well pure excellence bass tones are nice when
relatively flat response. a (e.g.) +15dB peak at 105hz is
downright annoying, and completely overwhelming

tax,
"Who is this end user your referring to? If your talking
about the listener, the room treatment you use is the last
thing they should notice. If they can tell what you have
done, then you have done something horribly, horribly wrong.
"


everything i have been referring to has been for my
listening room/home/computer desk. i dont make/master
music. i am the end user. any listener who knows how to
use his ears will surely benefit/notice from room
treatments. hell, even my old man did when i took them
away/put them back.

brisk,
"I'm not shrugging it off. All i'm saying is are you
honestly
putting the room ahead of the monitors and the music itself
in the production chain? "


sorry, babe - you're putting words in my mouth now and going
to polar extremes. not very kind of you.
im saying, room treatments are very important and can make
an overwhelmingly HUGE difference in the way your room
sounds ... at relatively cheap costs. as you go up in price
for studio monitors/speakers, you hit point of diminishing
returns... where you might pay an extra $2000 for 5% better
performance (if you could gauge it like that) ... where as
better speakers who are touted for having flat-response, are
completely irrelevant once they are put in YOUR room with
crazy room modes, reflections, flutter, reverb decay times,
and comb filtering


 

offline elusive from detroit (United States) on 2010-06-07 13:29 [#02382847]
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i think there is a fundamental misunderstanding of debate
here.

im not arguing or telling you how to master your music, or
that you can't record good music without a perfect room.

i am an end user. im discussing my gratitude towards rooms
that sound good ... and how making your room for listening
(or mastering) sound good - is relatively cheap and easy ...
and shouldn't be thrown around/regarded as the "last item in
the chain" or "last thing to worry about"

ridiculous. my speakers are nothing special. ive noticed
huge gains by eliminating fundamental errate regarding
simple physics in my room. there is no escaping room modes,
comb filtering, etc no matter how good your speakers are.

hell, spending an extra $2000 on studio monitors isnt going
to get me much better stereo imaging when i have massive
comb filtering. a couple panels at early/first reflection
points did wonders for stereo imaging when i listen to
music.



 

offline elusive from detroit (United States) on 2010-06-07 13:33 [#02382849]
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brisk,
"I should also add that when your music is finally
published
and out there, it's gonna be heard in so many
rooms/cars/radios etc that it's never gonna sound the same
in two places anyway."


im talking about my listening room.
im talking about how music sounds in *my house

i dont care if your room sounds like shit. when i listen to
music i want to experience it as best as i can.

i dont give 2 shits about where or how it was mastered. im
the end user. the only thing i care about is what and how
sound enters my ears for processing.

brisk,
HOLY SHIT. you just nullified your entire
argument!!!

"I always do final monitoring on my headphones as they're
the
flattest, most perfect monitoring tool I have. I do all
bass/initial monitoring on proper studio monitors in my
mates place, but i'm actually pretty good at monitoring
bass
on my HD800s now, mainly cos they're so flat and accurate.
"


you are arguing this whole time that room treatments should
be last on the list....the last thing to worry about. and
then you comment that you do your final mastering on your
new HD800s because they are flat and accurate!

LOL. my head explodes from logic conflict.

also,
im not expect on mastering, but isn't mastering on
headphones a bit dangerous? i have read (but could be wrong)
that it can be dangerous because you can hear the subtleties
very easy/effortless on headphones, so you might master them
(quiet bits, soft melodies, etc) how you hear them ... but
when you listen on speakers, you find they are a bit too
quiet/hard to hear on a normal speaker setup. any truth to
this in your experience?



 

offline Brisk from selling smack at the orphanage on 2010-06-07 13:36 [#02382850]
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i think thats the crucial point you made though elusive.
you're a listener, not a producer. when you're making music,
your number 1 concern is the music itself. i've got a decent
setup which works for my ears (and others it seems!) but
it's still nothing without a decent idea in the first
place.

my ears and approach to music shift drastically when
producing music and listening to it.

the room, the monitoring equipment, the headphones... in
their own way, they all make a comprisise. the key is
choosing the comprimise which works best for you :)



 

offline AMPI MAX from United Kingdom on 2010-06-07 13:38 [#02382851]
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i don't think you're wrong with the whole room treatment
thing, but dont be such a dick about it


 

offline AMPI MAX from United Kingdom on 2010-06-07 13:38 [#02382852]
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and can you give me those tuss flacs pls?


 

offline elusive from detroit (United States) on 2010-06-07 13:39 [#02382853]
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it does sound a bit lazy, no?

dont really care about where or how something is
recorded...just get it down and be lazy and let computer
make it sound good when its being mastered. right? if you
have a -20dB null at 700hz in your room, when you eq that in
mastering, what happens to the rest of sound in that
vicinity? you can only expect to recover so much...

i understand the creation aspect (i think what jiv was
eluding to in his earlier post) (e.g. when you're in the
moment - when you're creating something special right then
and there) .. you dont need to stop and kill the mood/moment
wondering if your room is setup right. but comon - all
this talk about buying nice studio monitors with flat
response is laughable ... because all that shit goes right
out the window when they're installed in your room. bit
like buying a ferrari but only able to drive it in an
apartment complex parking lot.



 

offline Brisk from selling smack at the orphanage on 2010-06-07 13:41 [#02382855]
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No, again you're misreading what I say by throwing your ADHD
into the mix and typing without reading.

All my initial mixes are on monitors. My sisters boyfriend
has a decent studio near me and I always make sure the
soundstage works right for speakers. After that, i'll
mixdown again, this time monitoring on my 800s. They're
useful for frequency monitoring and tweaking the finer
details, especially in the high end.

Again, both are used. And yes, mastering on headphones is
risky for the points you mentioned, but not totally
impossible. Theres a good article on headphones for
monitoring/mastering here if you're interested.


 

offline elusive from detroit (United States) on 2010-06-07 13:44 [#02382856]
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you're a listener, not a producer. when you're making
music,
your number 1 concern is the music itself. i've got a
decent
setup which works for my ears (and others it seems!) but
it's still nothing without a decent idea in the first
place. "

so what? install room treatments and you dont have to think
about it again. you act as if room treatments are actual
work and every time you go to record you need to
setup/configure.. it's a one time thing...put some effort
into your room, which is largely the single biggest factor
in your output, no?

it's hilarious how you are so resistant on something such as
room treatments ... like i have to force it down your throat
like forcing a child to wash the dishes... like you see it
as actual "work" instead of a tool in your toolbox.
understanding your room, physics, acoustics, etc is a vital
understanding to mastering. how can you claim to be a
mastering engineer (talking in general, not directly to you)
if you don't understand exactly what is happening as you
master? or how the room affects output? or a host of other
variables.

i cant even begin to tell you how much more i enjoy bass
with some traps setup.

hell, just minimizing soem annoying resonances under my
computer desk was more rewarding than any tuss album


 

offline elusive from detroit (United States) on 2010-06-07 13:47 [#02382857]
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"All my initial mixes are on monitors. My sisters
boyfriend
has a decent studio near me and I always make sure the
soundstage works right for speakers. After that, i'll
mixdown again, this time monitoring on my 800s. They're
useful for frequency monitoring and tweaking the finer
details, especially in the high end.

ah, so you have the luxury of having a studio close by that
surely (i assume) has room treatments. so you are taking
advantage of them. it's ok - you're only creating more work
for yourself whether you want to admit it or not. by
getting your recording room to sound a bit better (less
flutter/echo, less comb filtering, less room modes
(peaks/nulls), and all that --- you're creating less work
for yourself when it comes time to master. and you can only
expect to recover so much (eq'ing) before you start to
degrade other aspects, no ?

"Again, both are used. And yes, mastering on headphones
is
risky for the points you mentioned, but not totally
impossible. Theres a good article on headphones for
monitoring/mastering here if you're interested. "


thanks - ill be sure to give it a read when i find some
time...always interested in hearing commentary from people
(like you) who are directly involved in the topic/subject.
(real experiences).


 

offline Brisk from selling smack at the orphanage on 2010-06-07 13:49 [#02382858]
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I'm not resiliant to it lol... i've said time and time again
in this thread that I agree with your point about treating a
room if it sounds shit, but in the production chain, it's
not the number 1 priority for a producer. For a mastering
engineer and perhaps a listener, this might not be the
case.

"put some effort into your room, which is largely the single
biggest factor in your output, no? "

No. The single biggest aspect is the music itself. Thats all
i'm saying, I dunno what else I can tell you other than
you're taking this whole thing a little too seriously.


 

offline elusive from detroit (United States) on 2010-06-07 13:50 [#02382859]
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"No, again you're misreading what I say by throwing your
ADHD
into the mix and typing without reading. "


you're the one who initially commented / put words in my
mouth saying im spouting off that room treatments are more
important than "music itself in the production chain"

keep it civilized and focused on debate/education/etc...
thanks?


 

offline elusive from detroit (United States) on 2010-06-07 13:51 [#02382860]
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"I'm not resiliant to it lol... i've said time and time
again
in this thread that I agree with your point about treating
a
room if it sounds shit, but in the production chain, it's
not the number 1 priority for a producer."


no one is saying number 1 priority.
you act like im saying it's all or nothing.
"MAKE ROOM TREATMENTS TOP PRIORITY OR NOTHING AT ALL !"

i understand your point about music coming first.
im not debating that here -

i think we're just both passionate about different aspects
in the chain.
cheers,



 

offline elusive from detroit (United States) on 2010-06-07 13:53 [#02382861]
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"My sisters boyfriend
has a decent studio near me ..."


holy shit that is a great ice-breaker/pickup line. cant wait
to use it on the ladies


 

offline Brisk from selling smack at the orphanage on 2010-06-07 13:55 [#02382862]
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His studio is actually in the attic of his house and he
doesn't have any of the bass traps or other things you
mentioned. He just has a good pair of ears (like myself) and
we know when something sounds right. Maybe we're lucky with
our room setups as ochre said, but we can easily spot when a
frequency range is spiking in the room by checking the sound
digitally via a spectrum analyser (of which i always have
one in the master bus anyway) or just listening with
headphones.

I don't think enough producers put emphasis on how crucial
headphones are to the final mix. When half the pop market
listens to music on their ipods for hours every day, you'd
think they'd actually try and make the tunes sound good on
them. Some stereo soundstaging in pop tunes in particular
are AWFUL on headphones.



 

offline Brisk from selling smack at the orphanage on 2010-06-07 13:56 [#02382863]
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Well that was just the impression I got when reading your
posts in here. Sorry if I misunderstood.


 

offline elusive from detroit (United States) on 2010-06-07 14:05 [#02382865]
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" When half the pop market
listens to music on their ipods for hours every day, you'd
think they'd actually try and make the tunes sound good on
them."


i thought that's the heart of the very problem in today's
mastering??? everyone is mastering for ipods.

i concede defeat in that regard - i should have realized
from the start we were debating different aspects. i should
have made more clear earlier on i was in total reference to
a/my listening room (not actual recording).

we all know how recording in funky rooms (or bank vaults)
can have a pleasing/special effect on the music.


 

offline Brisk from selling smack at the orphanage on 2010-06-07 14:08 [#02382866]
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I remember reading that a few engineers now provide
different masters for different things. Radio play has its
own master, ipods on itunes have their own master (aka no
need for bass because the stock phones don't have any, lulz)
and then the general studio master which in theory should
sound good for everything.

I find it all a bit pointless though. Stuff like Rhythm &
Sound is brilliant to my ears whatever I use to listen to it
on.


 

offline elusive from detroit (United States) on 2010-06-07 14:15 [#02382867]
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i dont see why you need a one-size-fits all mastering, even
if the returns may not be completely noticable/worth the
effort.

it's all about design requirements. i dont see/have any
issue with mastering multiple times for different output
mediums. makes perfect sense.

whether it's worth the effort/time/money, etc - isn't my
decision to make and is dependent upon that specific
application/design requirements.

we're just a couple of cozy kttns over here; debatin musics
at the barber shop



 

offline Fah from Netherlands, The on 2010-06-07 16:58 [#02382876]
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It's still an interesting thread, since i usually make music
with just my headphones on, i never really check it out on
the big speakers because i don't want to bother anyone with
my noise/i'm very secretive of what i'm working on. I
master/mix-down my tracks a bit on the spot and perhaps some
after treatment if i think it needs to, but I've never heard
anyone complain about the sound quality really, and i know
that some of the people that hear my work definitely know a
thing or two about sound quality and engineering. Or people
automatically assume my music is headphone music so they
listen to it on the headphones by default, i don't know.
This thread makes me want to look right more into it, but
yet on the other hand i don't want to fix something that
might not be broken.


 

offline isnieZot from pooptown (Belgium) on 2010-06-07 22:02 [#02382907]
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treating your room is great and all, but it looks ugly as
fuck if you're doing it the DIY way.

I'm moving to a place which has very high ceilings.
something like 5 meters high I think. and I'm pretty sure
it's gonna reverberate like crazy. I only have a seperate
bedroom so I have to put my stuff there. but I'm not gonna
mess it up by placing ugly panels and what not.

I've mixed on hi-fi speakers for years before I recently got
genelec 8040 speakers from a stoner who bought all this
expensive stuff but then realized he also needed talent.
so I bought these from him at 900 euro. normally these
easily cost the double.

I like how they sound. not super bass heavy, very neutral
and I'm ok with that. lots of definition in the high end
though.

my current room (25m²) is untreated but if there is one
thing I've learned from mixing all these years on hi-fi it
is that you have to learn to know the speakers you mix on.
that way you compensate for it. you do it subconsciously
after a while.

listen to your fav track on your speakers in no matter what
room and use that as a reference for mixing. works perfect.

and listen to it on as much speakers and headphones as
possibe.
I have 2 pairs of headphones. one in ear from senheiser and
one normal from AKG. switching between these 3 and even
computers at work gives results that are very good

ofcourse if you are a professional mastering engineer,
recording bands etc, the story is different.

pro gear in general is overrated and is often used to
compensate for a lack of talent.



 

offline impakt from where we do not speak of! on 2010-06-07 23:04 [#02382924]
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Keep it simple, keep it real, give it flaws, give it soul.


 

offline elusive from detroit (United States) on 2010-06-07 23:26 [#02382930]
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impakt, maybe in your opinion for your recordings, but
certainly not for listening/playback. quite laughable,
actually.

"hey, this small, square room sounds like absolute shit -
but man, listen to the soul of the tuss!"

isnieZot,
you get good results on your current setup/process. good for
you. that doesn't take away from the fact that room
treatments are beneficial and another tool in your toolbox.


"thing I've learned from mixing all these years on hi-fi
it
is that you have to learn to know the speakers you mix
on."


lol. put those same speakers in a different room and they
sound totally different. how can you "learn" your speakers?
do you mean "learn your room on a particular set of
speakers"??

i didn't think humans possessed the capability to
conscienceless know the freq ranges they are experiencing
via comb-filtering. you must be uncanny.

tell me - have you ever spent considerable time in a room
with treatments? have you recorded with treatments?
mastered? listened?

im curious to know if many of the people who dont have
treatments and complaining that they dont need them and are
doing just fine without them - have ever actually spent time
in a treated room.

if so, what didn't you like? what did you like?

"I'm moving to a place which has very high ceilings.
something like 5 meters high I think. and I'm pretty sure
it's gonna reverberate like crazy. I only have a seperate
bedroom so I have to put my stuff there. but I'm not gonna
mess it up by placing ugly panels and what not. "


well, in a large room like that you're going to have some
crazy room modes. good luck trying to tame that without
room treatments.

"pro gear in general is overrated and is often used to
compensate for a lack of talent. "


way to generalize.

"treating your room is great and all, but it looks ugly
as
fuck if you're doing it the DIY way. "


more broad, sweeping generalizations.


 

offline JivverDicker from my house on 2010-06-08 00:37 [#02382945]
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"well, in a large room like that you're going to have some
crazy room modes. good luck trying to tame that without
room treatments." It's not about taming anything, it's
hearing/making music you enjoy. I love going to sleep
listening to a mono radio thing playing good music every
night. I don't think I'd be better off laid exactly in the
'sweet spot' of a calibrated, audio scientist approved
listening pod.



 

offline AMPI MAX from United Kingdom on 2010-06-08 00:42 [#02382946]
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if having a treated room is like real important how come
lots of people dont care very much about it........
......
...its cos these people are really very dull and not smart.
these people dont know their own ears and you may see them
doing something really dumb like pressing a compact disc
against there head in a laughable attempt to 'hear' it.
when people who are less ridiculous try to explain sound to
everyone the IDIOTS start saying lots of fucking dumb stuff.
just copy and paste what they have said and put it in
quotation. you then label this quarantined section of toxic
spaztext with a snitty comment about how stupid it is so
others dont think its a genuine opinion.


 

offline elusive from detroit (United States) on 2010-06-08 00:51 [#02382947]
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" It's not about taming anything, it's
hearing/making music you enjoy. I love going to sleep
listening to a mono radio thing playing good music every
night. I don't think I'd be better off laid exactly in the
'sweet spot' of a calibrated, audio scientist approved
listening pod. "


again with this "all or nothing" attitude that has been
pushed in this thread.

hilarious.

you like listening to a mono recording every once in a while
- good for you. no one is saying every situation you have to
be in has to be studio quality.

the point is there some cheap, diy treatments that would be
beneficial to almost any application. a pair of 2" 24"x48"
panels at early/first reflection points do wonders -
absolute wonders for reducing comb-filtering and more
importantly, soundstage/increased stereo imaging. total
cost? probably $40-50.

why are you comparing your mono-bed-time-listening setup to
someone in a 25m^2 room with 15ft ceilings?

there is no middle ground with those opposing room
treatments. every post i made here has been in reference to
cheap diy treatments...not pushing people to spend $100s to
1000s of dollars on snake-oil bullshit.





 

offline elusive from detroit (United States) on 2010-06-08 00:54 [#02382948]
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"It's not about taming anything, it's
hearing/making music you enjoy"

well, i love hearing my music.
i dont go ape-shit about audiophile nonsense and bragging
rights.

however, even my dad can tell a fucking massive spike at
150hz when i play a sine-sweep.

my favorite bubbly-part of last rushup 10 gets destroyed by
a few peaks i have. same with the bass on pissed up in
se-1. it's not like im focusing all my attention on
artifacts, but the peak in those bass ranges in my setup is
COMPLETELY overwhelming and distracting as hell. it's
really overwhelming.

im not arguing about making your room flat-response or
nothing at all .... im saying a few panels to tame and make
your room sound good can be the most pleasurable and
satisfactory upgrade in your system ... not to mention the
price to performance ratio is lower than any other factor!
and because it's diy - you are learning about the subject,
learning about your room, building things yourself - overall
can be much more rewarding.


 

offline elusive from detroit (United States) on 2010-06-08 00:56 [#02382949]
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ampi max, i can't tell if you're agreeing with me or
snotting at me.



 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2010-06-08 00:57 [#02382950]
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right

i think that it's incredible how music sounds different
depending on the position of my speakers and myself in the
house. if turn my head it sounds different, if i step back
it sounds different, if i go into another room a song sounds
even totally different pitches.

it's no tits


 

offline elusive from detroit (United States) on 2010-06-08 01:06 [#02382952]
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im actually installing some 2" panels in my place (just live
in a small, single room loft/studio) away from the speakers
because i dislike the sound of my room when people are
talking. lots of echo/reverb/etc. really annoying at night
when it is quiet how small voices can become quite loud.



 

offline JivverDicker from my house on 2010-06-08 01:10 [#02382953]
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Do you notice the difference in sound if drawers are left
open and not closed fully.


 

offline AMPI MAX from United Kingdom on 2010-06-08 01:10 [#02382954]
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this actually makes me jealous. i really dont listen to
music in a patient way anymore. i'd like to have more energy
for all this kind of thing but i dont really listen to music
properly at the moment. ive had a broken amp for 2 years,
was second hand when i got it and now i cant change the
volume or it sounds all fried. its connected to some shit
speakers and one of the paper cones has been pressed in.
also my work room is full of bits of shit that all vibrate a
lot


 

offline elusive from detroit (United States) on 2010-06-08 01:23 [#02382957]
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jivver, you have an all or nothing attitude in this thread.

it's one thing to be selling an idea to someone (and selling
a product), but to be letting people in on cheap
do-it-yourself ideas and etc that you can do to make your
setup sound much better ... im pretty sure that's what
sharing information is all about.

i sure as shit didnt know about room treatments until
4-5-6months ago.

over the past few months as ive been opened to this new
topic, ive become familiar (and motivated to learn) about
acoustics, meausuring, physics, et al. fuckin' rewarding.

ampi max, no worries. some shit sounds better on a system
like that.
boards of canada always sounded best at 48k mp3 playing out
of my old PDA mono speaker.

but i dont listen to the majority of my music like that.
my computer/listening setup i do - so i want that to sound
as best as possible.

same thing with the $500 chair comment above.
most people exclaim why the fuck would you buy a $500
chair?

but sit your ass in it for 12-15hours a day, and maybe it
would be worth it.

same thing with decent monitors. if im going to be staring
at a screen all day i sure as shit am not cheaping out on
that.



 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2010-06-08 01:28 [#02382958]
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yeah, vibrations are the worst. you could fake the 'open
air' effect given by the speakers by keeping your
headphones, opening the window and lower the level a bit to
include some ambience in the music. makes it intereresting
sometimes


 

offline JivverDicker from my house on 2010-06-08 01:33 [#02382959]
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If I was a carpenter I could find your doors and window
frames laughable. If I was a plumber I'd laugh at your
choice of washers on your faucet. I don't think you are
adding anything to your cause lecturing people about sound
insulation/proofing.

Have you ever enjoyed a piece of music that wasn't in a
perfect situation?


 

offline WhiteMtJubilee from Grasmere (United States) on 2010-06-08 01:37 [#02382960]
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you are all barking up the wrong tree. i've found that by
sitting on the floor and playing my mandolin naked solves
any problem with reflection points, early or otherwise, for
all but the most astute listener.

never underestimate the power of tasteful, inexplicable
nudity in a proper stereo recording*.

*dealing with mono, obviously, changes things significantly,
and requires a considerable outlay on fresh tropical fruit.


 

offline manamip on 2010-06-08 01:42 [#02382962]
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gayest thread ever


 

offline JivverDicker from my house on 2010-06-08 01:44 [#02382963]
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Quality addition manamip!


 

offline elusive from detroit (United States) on 2010-06-08 02:04 [#02382965]
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jivver,
what does sound insulation/proofing have to do with room
treatment. clearly you can't be this dull with your
vocabulary.

but alas, you must be one of those types to just take things
as they are. no point making your situation better, no?

granite counter-tops or no counter-tops at all, as im sure
you would have it.


 

offline JivverDicker from my house on 2010-06-08 02:17 [#02382966]
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My counter tops are blue pearl granite from Norway. I can't
keep saying the same thing elusive.

Enjoy music your way and post links for things that might
improve other peoples pleasure.


 

offline Brisk from selling smack at the orphanage on 2010-06-08 03:20 [#02382981]
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The thing I think Elusive isn't considering is that all
music, from creation to listening is based on subjective,
personal preferences. For example, I might write a piece of
music that was made in my garden, with little speakers on my
laptop, the birds singing in the background and a nice cold
beer next to me. This sounds good to me and this is how I
want it to be heard. Obviously in reality, thats not gonna
happen and someone elses listening experience might be
drastically different. Thats why monitoring flat is a good
thing, but for the actual listening experience, it is
something else entirely.

All headphones and speakers colour the sound in some way and
any "deviation" from the original source could be classed as
distortion. On the other hand, there are some pieces of
music I prefer to listen to on my HD650s rather than my
HD800s, simply because I prefer the way certain recordings
are shaped by the output.

Do you think a band performing in an open air stadium is the
best way scientifically to listen to live music? Absolutely
not, but people enjoy it all the same.

Even the aesthetics of the room can effect how much you
enjoy sound. Putting panels everywhere to trap certain
frequencies might make the sound flatter, but what if it
makes the room look shit?

Or what if I just like the way the reverb sounds in my room,
or the exageration of certain frequencies? What if i prefer
my room to be treated for certain genres of music, but not
others?

It's not so black and white sir. Nothing ever is when you're
discussing something as subjective as music.


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2010-06-08 03:27 [#02382983]
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4:26 am, level 3 on my mac, windows opened, birds singing
and all

clear illusion of music coming out of my headphones!



 

offline Brisk from selling smack at the orphanage on 2010-06-08 03:36 [#02382985]
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I'd go as far to say that achieving a completely flat
frequency response for listening would be a horrible,
lifeless experience. Its exactly why people with valve amps
like to roll their tubes.

Music is as much about the environment you are in as it is
about the sound itself. It's the reason we aren't all put in
isolated, soundproof booths when we see someone perform live
- music is more than that.


 

offline elusive from detroit (United States) on 2010-06-08 03:52 [#02382987]
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no, your mixing flat-response curve and a 'dead' sounding
room (from lack of reflections).

ouch, that must hurt...


 

offline elusive from detroit (United States) on 2010-06-08 03:52 [#02382988]
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*you're

ouch, that hurts!


 


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