A good song with a bad mix is still a good song.
A bad song with a good mix can become a good song.
So mixing is crucial in the developing of any song.
Mixing in essence is all about high and low, the place where you want your song to be played in (room, hall..) and the distance of every sound to your ears.
To get a good mix you got to have a pair of speakers or monitors (occasionally headphones) everybody knows that, but the placement of these monitors is crucial in hearing what there is to hear.
So here are some hints that will save you some time in looking them up on the internet:
1. Choose a large room with the highest ceiling to set up your monitors.
2. No square room, no rectangular room with related length/side, a
rectangular room with the monitors on the short side.
3. Place the monitors in an equilateral triangle with their backs close too
the wall and at an even length from the sidewalls.
4. Don’t put monitors in the corners of the room, only when they are flush
mounted, and that will not be the case for most of us.
5. Don’t hang them flat on the wall; put them on a stand or anything that
lifts them up about 1.20 m from the ground.
6. Don’t put reflecting surfaces near the speakers (LCD screens...)
7. Set them up with the tweeters at ear level, if you put them too high or
too low you will loose high frequencies and the stereo image will be all
messed up.
Here is a handy tool that calculates the best place for your monitors:
http://www.hunecke.de/en/calculators/loudspeakers.html
Sorry for my bad English but Dick challenged me...
A bad song with a good mix can become a good song.
So mixing is crucial in the developing of any song.
Mixing in essence is all about high and low, the place where you want your song to be played in (room, hall..) and the distance of every sound to your ears.
To get a good mix you got to have a pair of speakers or monitors (occasionally headphones) everybody knows that, but the placement of these monitors is crucial in hearing what there is to hear.
So here are some hints that will save you some time in looking them up on the internet:
1. Choose a large room with the highest ceiling to set up your monitors.
2. No square room, no rectangular room with related length/side, a
rectangular room with the monitors on the short side.
3. Place the monitors in an equilateral triangle with their backs close too
the wall and at an even length from the sidewalls.
4. Don’t put monitors in the corners of the room, only when they are flush
mounted, and that will not be the case for most of us.
5. Don’t hang them flat on the wall; put them on a stand or anything that
lifts them up about 1.20 m from the ground.
6. Don’t put reflecting surfaces near the speakers (LCD screens...)
7. Set them up with the tweeters at ear level, if you put them too high or
too low you will loose high frequencies and the stereo image will be all
messed up.
Here is a handy tool that calculates the best place for your monitors:
http://www.hunecke.de/en/calculators/loudspeakers.html
Sorry for my bad English but Dick challenged me...