[Dream] Calibrating monitors?

[Doofus McFluoro]

Hey did anybody understand what Phile just said?  Are you on drugs Phile?
(no I don't mean generally...I mean right now).  For a man with such an
obviously bad case of verbal diarrhoea (bloody hell thats a hard word to
smell) you use a lot of abreviations. And also talk about a a lot of things
that obviously mean something to you but nothing to most of the rest of us
(rp-200, k-sys, the european -18dbFS blah blah...WTF... without seeming
trite, can I add another blah blah to that or what?)

Now this may come accross as a bit rude and agressive (what the fuck its
snowing and my toas are cold... I hate cold toes and I hate george Bush as
Global warming is making my toes cold.. how does that work anyway?)

And it is Wednesday (or black motherfuckin' comedown day as I call it)...

Back to the point...

So in the intersts of international communications I thought I would just
point out to you the bits I didnt understand...

Then I changed my mind and decided to point out the bits I did understand...
(see below)

"uhhhh ahhhh .... " and "....my 2c...."

So Alistair... Do you mind transalting for us?  I think even Olly (Kudos)
might balk at reading that one (then again he would probably view it as a
good starting point for research...)

So anyway I am sorry if this came accross as a bit rude (actualy im not...
but I am British and its traditional for us to say things like that) but
please remember that we arent all pros or university educated sound
engineers here. Some of us have difficulty reading English (hey Joao how are
you doing ;) let alone technobabble.  Remember when communicating with us
mere mortals... jargon can be even more confusing than the original issue.

Love to all... Peace..and all that bollocks,

P.S Andrei... So am I banned or what.



On 1/23/07, phile <phile.me at gmail.com> wrote:

> uhhhh ahhhh .... quite touchy and quite confusing .... especially from
> what I am reading from prior posts. :)))))
>
> First off -- generally you calibrate levels, not frequency response -- you
> can tune your room (with hardware eq)
> but this is really not advisable. Calibrate to a standart level --
> although there isn't really a fixed one -- you have
> rp-200, k-sys, the european -18dbFS blah blah .... (personally fan of
> k-sys and I am calibrated to that at home)
>
> Second, yes, the problem very well could be from the room. Room acoustics
> play a huge part in your mix and post-.
> And yes, with an RTA mic you are compensating the monitors... The fact
> that nearfields are close to you doesnot
> mean you're not getting any reflections :-P, just that they can be closer
> to you and that they won't be able to
> push the spls for mastering :-P and don't have the frequency range of
> loudspeakers ... really a poor-man's
> solution for semi-good monitoring.
>
> >Judging by the feedback I got on the latest track I posted here, I
> >think that maybe my monitors produce too much bass, so I'm wondering
> >if there is some easy way to calibrate monitors.
>
> I am sorry I missed that feedback, but were they saying you don't have
> anough bass in your track?!!? You know it
> could be bass buildup in the room, causing you to underjudge your bass...
> ;) Also what kind of monitors do you use
> and what is the setup -- meaning distance from your ears to the center of
> the driver and also distance to the wall
> behind them and are they front-ported or rear- ?!?!
>
> There are a lot of factors you have to take under consideration to trouble
> shoot a problem like yours....
>
> OO yea... and a good rta is in the thousands ... :-| And yes -- there are
> audiophile measurement cds .... :) (again
> mostly used for room treatment) -- Bowers &Wilkins has some ... and also
> ... oo there are a few around jsut do a
> search on google, but again they are quite useless if you don't know what
> you're doing ;) ... Along those lines
> check out the videos at real traps (http://realtraps.com/videos.htm) they
> will help understand some common issues
> with rooms...
>
> With all this said I would advise you to learn your setup rather than
> trying to modify to parameters you don't know :( ..
> Listen on a lot and different systems you rmixes, make notes, go back to
> the mix and compensate, repeat the
> process till you get to the point where you're happy with the results...
>
> P.S. No, active monitors don't color the sound that much or in other words
> -- yes, passive crossovers are better BUT,
> they are in the thousands to be worth it and that is excluding the amp,
> which in this case plays the biggest part probably
>  :-O and for production scenario this is not really .... valid ....  uhh
> then why is that my actives sound much better than
> my friends passives :P -- same model adn everything :-P ... it all depends
> on the amp .... and the crossover :-P
>
> ....my 2c....
>
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