A few years back, I was working with this producer who set up a pretty decent home studio.
Good gear, perfect listener and speaker placement, solid room treatment – the works.
But his mixes? They still didn’t sound right outside the studio.
We went through his setup...
Are you still confused about how to use LUFS correctly while mixing?
Be honest..
Tbh, I’m not surprised. And I bet you are not alone.
For some reason the narrative on loudness measurement has developed a life of its own that is often quite far removed from how to use it in practice.
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Volume creep. It’s a real thing.
You know what I’m talking about.
It’s when you gradually turn up the volume throughout the session. Just a little bit more, and more, and more, one bit at a time.
Worst case: Until your ears are shot, your brain is fried, and you have no idea...
It’s time for another YouTube Comments Knowledge Bomb!
As always, this is where I answer your questions from the YouTube comments.
Of course we’ve got chapters, so feel free to binge the whole thing, or jump to whichever question tickles you the right way first.
02:09 - Low cut...
One of the often more surprising things about treating your room is this:
You go through all that effort of planning, building, moving, bleeding, sweating, crying and pushing on to find that at a first listen it sounds absolutely fantastic!
But the first mix still turns out like garbage.
And the...
Treating the bass in your studio is hard.
Especially the lowest octave.
To fully absorb 100Hz you theoretically already need 86cm (2’10”) of porous material depth (¼ wavelength rule).
Of course this is deep in voodoo territory, because what is technically true isn't even...
Let’s say you are setting up a new home studio and the shape of the room is a bit odd.
This particular room has a sloped ceiling.
It starts off low on one end and rises up towards the other end of the room.
How do you best deal with that from an acoustics perspective?
Is there anything...
As promised last week, here’s part 2 of my interview with JOHN DARKO to get his take on high end speakers (think hypercars in the speaker world) and room acoustics.
If you didn’t catch part 1 last week, click here.
And thanks again to everyone who submitted a question!
No-one I...
It’s finally here!!
My interview with JOHN DARKO, where he answers all the questions that YOU submitted on speakers, acoustics and all the intricacies and subtleties that only someone with as much listening experience as John can know.
So first of all: Thank you so much to everyone who...
When was the last time you went down the acoustic treatment rabbit hole only to come out hours later with your brain on fire?
(Or just totally numb, followed by a confused nap..?)
I’m sure that’s what happened to our fellow sound nerd Lucas when he decided to shoot over an email.
In...
When was the last time you tried a new compressor or EQ plugin?
Did it help to get your mixes to translate better?
It may absolutely have done, this isn’t a trick question.
What about the last time you got some new speakers or invested in some acoustic treatment?
Did that help with mix...
I always say: You can improve the sound in ANY room with acoustic treatment.
How FAR you can take things is another question. A lot of it depends on just how much space we are willing to sacrifice.
But the fact is: Some rooms are just more difficult than others.
And the location of doors and...
