You live with multiple people in one room, without separate bedrooms?Naer wrote:I don't have a room. I'm composing in my living room and I can easily disturb the people around me. So how?
How do you mix and master with studio monitors if you live with people
- KVRAF
- 2944 posts since 31 Jan, 2003 from Ghent, Belgium
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- KVRist
- 289 posts since 25 Aug, 2002 from Leeds
I do pretty much all my mixing and mastering* on headphones. But I 'know' them pretty well as I listen to music lot on them also. Saying that, I recently got hold of the Focusrite VRM to see if that can help further.
*in a fashion
*in a fashion
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- KVRer
- 19 posts since 10 Feb, 2014
Wait 'till they're gone or get good headphones. Or try to live with people who don't care. Or tell those mother f*ckers to turn the TV volume up.
Edit: It's best to mix and master at low volumes anyway, for some reason. Idk. Do research on it.
Edit: It's best to mix and master at low volumes anyway, for some reason. Idk. Do research on it.
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- KVRist
- 249 posts since 2 Oct, 2012
I do a lot of my mixing and mastering on headphones (1 room apartment with my wife). That being said, my headphones are better than my monitors, so I'd be mixing on them anyway.
Assuming your gear is decent prosumer quality (no ifrogz), it's about 70% knowing how your headphones should sound, about 10% the overall quality of your headphones, 5% how your ears feel that day, and 5% luck. I've done some mixing on Sennheiser HD201 (not the best money can buy) headphones and while they leave much to be desired, if you know how they sound with good music, you can make your music sound like that on them. The only big problem I kept running into with those headphones is bass. You need something that can reproduce the full spectrum of audio. Even if it's all wacky and out of proportion, you can still make something sound good if you know how it should sound. Maybe not great or amazing, but you can at least get it sounding good enough to fool the untrained ear.
Assuming your gear is decent prosumer quality (no ifrogz), it's about 70% knowing how your headphones should sound, about 10% the overall quality of your headphones, 5% how your ears feel that day, and 5% luck. I've done some mixing on Sennheiser HD201 (not the best money can buy) headphones and while they leave much to be desired, if you know how they sound with good music, you can make your music sound like that on them. The only big problem I kept running into with those headphones is bass. You need something that can reproduce the full spectrum of audio. Even if it's all wacky and out of proportion, you can still make something sound good if you know how it should sound. Maybe not great or amazing, but you can at least get it sounding good enough to fool the untrained ear.
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- KVRist
- 389 posts since 22 May, 2012
1.) Monitor at low levels, you should do that unrelated to your listening environment.
2.) Buy top-end (semi-)open cans like Beyerdynamic DT 880 Pro, Sennheiser 650 or AKG K701.
2.) Buy top-end (semi-)open cans like Beyerdynamic DT 880 Pro, Sennheiser 650 or AKG K701.
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- KVRist
- 361 posts since 14 Jan, 2014 from Germany
Placing the monitors near those other people's ears and "accidentally" increasing the volume might speed up this process, too.valerian_777 wrote:stay with deaf people.
- KVRer
- 11 posts since 6 Nov, 2014
Yes! Kick them out and turn your living room into and amazing studio! That's the only way!fluffy_little_something wrote:You need to set priorities. What is more important, family or music? So kick them out
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- KVRist
- 276 posts since 4 Oct, 2014
When I have to mix loudly, I reach for the Rohypnol.
- KVRAF
- 8404 posts since 2 Aug, 2005 from Guitar Land, USA
I do it on speakers that produce almost no low end, at a low volume.
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- KVRist
- 213 posts since 10 Sep, 2014
Did you say living room? Can't have very good acoustics, so wouldn't earcans be better anyway..
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- KVRAF
- 4321 posts since 26 Jun, 2004
Look at all this reasonable advice. Geez.
Some outside the box advice-
Just start, loudly. After a few minutes turn it all the way down, and yell "Stfu!", then turn it back up and continue. Psychological warfare.
Imo, you will need to impose, i.e. be rude, in order to get a proper mix.
The sub is probably a big factor though.
For me and my roommate its the factor. We can have levels pretty high with no sub and not bother each other. With a sub it almost doesnt matter how low the level is, the whole building hums...
Some outside the box advice-
Just start, loudly. After a few minutes turn it all the way down, and yell "Stfu!", then turn it back up and continue. Psychological warfare.
Imo, you will need to impose, i.e. be rude, in order to get a proper mix.
The sub is probably a big factor though.
For me and my roommate its the factor. We can have levels pretty high with no sub and not bother each other. With a sub it almost doesnt matter how low the level is, the whole building hums...