[Dream] Calibrating tempers?

[spork]

Are you saying that my perception of the bass shouldn't change, no
matter where I position myself relative to the speakers? That is
definitely interesting, cause I have to admit that there are several
'dead zones' - areas where the low-end rumble is more or less
cancelled out. My so-called studio room is anything but ideal.
Unfortunately, I'm not in the position to get an acoustically treated,
sound proofed penthouse... =) I have a lot of junk and furniture in
there, and the roof is even slanting! My monitors are Behringer 2031A
Truth - but I guess that doesn't really matter with the hole I'm
composing in. Maybe I should go for a zen thing, and toss out all the
furniture.

Anyway - point taken. 1: Buy mansion. 2: Worry about bass levels.

/spork

On 1/24/07, phile <phile.me at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Spork,
>
> well, some thoughts: you see the lack of bass in your mix is not
> neccessarily caused by the monitors producing too much bass
> it could very well be a bass buildup in your room at the mixing position.
> Does your perception of the bass change when you're
> walking around the room?! See, you don't have to realyl tear down your room
> to improve it sonically and also there are ways to
> do it cheap but it would really help if you just mention what is your setup
> -- i.e. monitors (model), position in the room and layout
> of the room, furniture in the room (!). The elimination of testing on hi fi
> won't go away -- you will still need to test it there ;) ...and
>  pretty much everywhere else you can. That's why I was saying to learn the
> problem of your signal chain and work with it rather
> than agains. All professoinal (and not so pro) studios have a hi fi system
> (or two ... or more) to test on ;). And an eq on your
> master will do you a bad favor as you won't be able to judge the individual
> instruments properly, not to mention your master will
> be affected by the eq ... Hey did you check out the ilnk to realtrps I
> posted ?!
>
> p.s. ask if any of the terms are not clear .... communication here (and not
> only) is a two way street ;) I can't know what you don't
> know if you don't tell me :-P