On Saturday 19 February 2011 09:09, David Gerard wrote: > Using bad speakers as well as good ones will teach you to mix. They're > called "truth boxes" for a reason ...
I hadn't heard this term applied to speakers before, and when I googled "truth boxes" +speakers, your blog post from a few hours ago was the third hit. But thanks for the reminder to use crappy speakers in addition to good ones or headphones. In fact, I would expand on that, and recommend testing on a variety of speakers. The last track I ever worked on in Windows (using Buzz and then overdubbing a bass part, about 10 years ago) I mixed down on earbuds, cynically thinking that they were representative of what most people would be hearing. Sometime after losing my last Windows hard disk and the original Buzz projects, I finally got around to listening to it in my car, and I was mortified. This is the only mix I have, and it's so bad it even makes my little 1" laptop speaker distort: http://www.kudla.org/mymusic/dancetest.mp3 (Yeah, I'll be redoing that in LMMS, in my copious free time.) So now I start with decent headphones, test using earbuds and these $5 portable speakers I have, and idiot-check the mix using my car and home stereo systems before I call it done. Rob ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb _______________________________________________ Lmms-users mailing list Lmms-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmms-users
