On Dec 24, 2006, at 2:37 PM, John Howell wrote:
In my recording experience (last album project in '93, and yes, I realize that the recording business has changed drastically since then!), we always did the final mixdown on the highest quality speakers, but then checked it through cheap speakers to see what it sounded like on more realistic setups. (I think they were Auratone, although the engineers called them "Awfultone"!) We never mixed with headphones, but I wonder whether folks nowadays might do just that for the iPod market?
Yes, some engineers DO check recording mixes through earbuds—not headphones necessarily—because headphones don't sound the same at all (though there are similarities in stereo imaging and the like.)
They also still check them through a single, monaural speaker (all the engineers around here call the Auratone the "shitbox") to make sure that the stereo mix can be summed to a TV speaker while staying coherent, though that is going out now that almost everyone (except me, it seems!) has a stereo TV.
Everyone seems much more concerned about whether the Surround 5.0 mix they just spent days on (and very few listeners will be using) will still sound OK when heard through a car stereo.
But the majority of listeners will still be more concerned about Christina Aguilera's lipstick colour and what she is wearing, which I find strange considering the drop of importance in album art since the downloading era began...
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