The TRUTH: Getting your newly treated MIXING studio to TRANSLATE - What sound engineers NEED to know
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
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One of the often more surprising things about treating your room is this:
You go through all that effort of planning, building, moving, bleeding, sweating, crying and pushing on to find that at a first listen it sounds absolutely fantastic!
But the first mix still turns out like garbage.
And the second mix does as well.
Wasn’t the room supposed to translate properly now?
Did you do something wrong?
On a closer listen all your reference music still sounds great. But when you really pay attention certain weird things do pop out.
Maybe panning and width isn’t like you expected.
Or just the balance and placement of elements is quite different than how you used to hear it.
Like the placement of the vocal, or the smack of a snare drum.
You’re confused. What’s going on?
Well let me start by saying that this is actually completely normal!
Especially if the room sounded particularly bad previously, you likely conditioned your hearing to adapt in some very particular ways.
And it can take time to re-condition your hearing to the new setup.
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This video came just in the right time! I totally feel what you are saying, just finished my studio build and the low end simply "vanished". I know it is not gone and this is because of the fact that I have been mixing the past few years in a very lightly treated room but I will really need time to get used to it. Thank you for reminding me that this is completely normal 😊 Keep up the fantastic work, Jesco! 🙏
Love the info on your channel! I'm finishing up a remodel on my house and will have a new studio room, much larger than what I had before. So your info has been a sanity check and I'm lining up all the work of building new acoustic treatment, treating the room, and then re-learning to mix in it.
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You are so right! It took me two years to feel comfortable in my new room. After a flood, I had to rebuild it and tried to make it better. For a long time, I was cautious with bass and sub-bass, and it took me a while to realize that I could place the low frequencies wherever I wanted without any second thoughts.
This is 100% word. We treat decay time and try to balance the response to build the best sweet spot we can and then start to get a glimpse of what is happening listening to references everyday until we get the whole system through dedication to understand it. Very complicated matter.
Gregory Scotts channel is really great yup very good recommendation! Also listening to greg is basically therapy
Totally agree with all of this. Especially about using mixes and just doing some work. Direct and too the point, with the side benefit being that you finished some music along the way! You don't get that with exercises.
Appreciate this one, Jesco. Particularly as I'm at the stage where my (small) room has been treated as best I can. Also recently incorporated a sub and re-training my ears with this new set-up has definitely taken some time. I just long for the time when all the stars align and mix translation will no longer be an issue! Keep up the good work.
Definitely try dual subs. It's a huge difference!
@GingerDrums Not really sure how best to set up 2 subs in my small space. Might be counter-productive?
...but I LIKE all the voodoo.
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Love your videos and they have been a great of help, keep up the good work.
I have a question, so I have treated my room and maintain a symmetric treatment but only the back two columns( except for the tri corner ) remained untreated of bass traps (due to having a door on one side) where there is a lot of low energy build up out of my adams t8v. However, the listening position sound great and flat. Would a sub fit in such a treated room or since I already have low energy build up in the back means that the sub might make it worse even though the listening position now has no issues and the sound is great at that spot.
Could you do an episode with ALL the voodoo?
simsala bim voodoo da doodle get the liw end right with wooden pucks because sound will stay in (saw this in a hifi vid once 😂)
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This does make a lot of sense! Does anybody know if Jesco has a video on what could be some possible issues if you continuously feel like you've got too much 100-400 hz in your mixes? I often feel live got more buildup there but im not sure if its actually might be a combination of the things he addressed here
Your happy plant isnt looking happy..