by
newsguy » Wed Jun 09, 2021 2:07 pm
I'm moving to LMMS from Reaper. At the Reaper forum some users were saying that even if you have great studio monitors, you also have to "treat" your room. I think this goes beyond egg cartons.
I decided to get some very reasonably priced polkaudio bookshelves on sale along with some very cheap BestBuy Dynex (house brand) bookshelves with paper cones. The two different speaker sets seem to complement one another and I use all 4 at once, spaced apart in my bedroom. After a mix and render I stand in the center of my room where the bass isn't overly magnified (usually magnified near a wall or corner).
This setup is really unusual but my bedroom mixes come out pretty good. I also listen downstairs later on through 1980s Paradigm speakers with two more Dynex bookshelves, subwoofers (one I picked up from the curb/trash, the other the Thrift Store), sometimes in the car, on an old (gifted) iPad, and thru computer speakers too. Both my upstairs and downstairs amps are HK. One HK is very old and the other I got for free on Kijiji. Your amp really colors the sound too. I used to use an old NAD amp but it's too soft.
I sorta take the average of all these systems. And if my mix sounds okay on all of them, I figure it's not too far off the mark. I don't use headphones anymore because I've had hearing loss since childhood in the upper frequencies of one ear, so that sends everything off.
No treated room. No studio monitors. I think a lot of that is hype. There are creative and cheap ways to get good non-professional, reasonably balanced sound, I think.
I guess you could say I'm the *real* supertramp!