Page 1: Intro & Background
<b>Intro</b>:
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As you may or may not know, I've been making electronic music on my PC for about six years now... but admittedly, I've only recently have begun to take it seriously. One thing that I have learned over the years, however, is that mixing the final cut of a song to sound like the stuff you hear on professional CDs and on the radio is tough. "Too much bass, too much treble, can't hear the vocals", etc... What do you use to gauge whether or not it will sound decent on the average listener's system?
<b>Background</b>:
Well, back in my old apartment (pre-divorce), I was simply mixing my music with a good pair of headphones, then testing the mix in my AIWA 5.1 home CD player, my car's crap-ass audio system, the desktop PCs at work, and any other friend's home or car stereo that would give me the time of day... but now, since I've taken the "next step" and decided to go "semi-pro", I've realized that, in order to REALLY mix songs correctly, you need "Audio Monitors"... AKA, "reference" speakers... that, when you mix to THEM, the audio you create will sound DAMN good on almost any setup...
So what exactly are "Audio Monitors", you ask? Watch some dumbass "Making The Band" crap on Empty-V, and look in the background in the recording studio, near the mixing board (behind all of those ignorant rap "artists") ... you'll see what I'm talking about: Those little speakers that look like old-school hardware: no weird technology, just straight-up woofers and tweeters...
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</center>As you may or may not know, I've been making electronic music on my PC for about six years now... but admittedly, I've only recently have begun to take it seriously. One thing that I have learned over the years, however, is that mixing the final cut of a song to sound like the stuff you hear on professional CDs and on the radio is tough. "Too much bass, too much treble, can't hear the vocals", etc... What do you use to gauge whether or not it will sound decent on the average listener's system?
<b>Background</b>:
Well, back in my old apartment (pre-divorce), I was simply mixing my music with a good pair of headphones, then testing the mix in my AIWA 5.1 home CD player, my car's crap-ass audio system, the desktop PCs at work, and any other friend's home or car stereo that would give me the time of day... but now, since I've taken the "next step" and decided to go "semi-pro", I've realized that, in order to REALLY mix songs correctly, you need "Audio Monitors"... AKA, "reference" speakers... that, when you mix to THEM, the audio you create will sound DAMN good on almost any setup...
So what exactly are "Audio Monitors", you ask? Watch some dumbass "Making The Band" crap on Empty-V, and look in the background in the recording studio, near the mixing board (behind all of those ignorant rap "artists") ... you'll see what I'm talking about: Those little speakers that look like old-school hardware: no weird technology, just straight-up woofers and tweeters...