reality check-please help!

nonnus · Post by **nonnus** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 3:44 am

hi there

some time ago i had the disturbing experience of hearing the tracks i produced using m-audio bx8 on different speakers, mackie 824
it sounded really bad

so i just remembered to ask if some of you can give a listen to one track and please tell if it sounds solid and the speakers used...

i offer myself and my poor bx8s for the same purpose if anyone needs or wants it....

maybe we can create a circle with different people and speakers to check each others tracks on different systems...

here is the link to the track,
www.silicon-records.com/3G/320/3G-Under_Pressure.mp3

my main concern is about the bass part and if it creates or breaks the solidity of the mix

thanks a lot

nonnus

Affiliation · Post by **Affiliation** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 3:05 am

sounds good 2 me,

bx5s and yamaha s112iv+sub

i like the beginning its very dark.
nice stereo image too.

samz|sight · Post by **samz|sight** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 6:54 am

sounds good man

bx8s and 5s

and no, the bass sounds very nice

nonnus · Post by **nonnus** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 9:07 pm

thanx alot guys !!!

unfortunatelly most of the speakers you use are m-audio like me

at least on these ones i expected it to sound good !!!

my problem is with all the others speakers,
as i am begining to feel m-audio are too friendly,
like almost everything sounds good on them...

i noticed Affiliation used some yamaha as well,
did it sound close to m-audio ?
and in your previous experience,
have other tracks you heard behaved likewise betwen both speakers ?

thanx alot once more

nonnus

p.s: if you liked the track and are interested in listeinng another, here it is
http://www.silicon-records.com/3G/320/3 ... lprobe.mp3

p.p.s.: if some more people with different speakers can give a listen
please report how it sounds

samz|sight · Post by **samz|sight** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 1:02 am

music is like that.

i refuse to listen to my tracks while driving my truck, even run through a max my speakers just dont cut it and i end up going "god i suck".

contrary, while listening on a newer stock stereo in a friends car my tracks sounded 100x better and i felt more confident in myself and wanted to improved on what I was learning.

i think what you are hearing is the sound quality that the top end monitors have over the BXs and also, being it's your music, you know what you used to create the sound, how you wanted it to sound and what it sounds like on your setup so you have the ability (and curse) to be hyper-critical of yourself.

also your mixdowns are class; are you doing it by ear or using a visual display?

nonnus · Post by **nonnus** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 3:19 am

i mixed by ear

since i heard how awful it sounded on the 824 (the bass was very cripled and hollow sounding and the highs where too harsh and out of control, so it is very hard for me to believe the difference is only due to the increased speaker sound quality, although i´d rather believe that...)

i then spent some time checking it on ozone spectrum analyzer to find faults in the bass

it seemed to lack some mids around 600-1200 hz when compared to a -6db guide

thnx alot on the comments
i am still drooling over the class mixdown one...

if only i could get it to sound like that on most systems...

nonnus · Post by **nonnus** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 6:34 pm

(bump)

i would really like to ask if someone could give a quick listen and report how it sounds

expecially on:

mackie (any)
krk (any)
genelec (any)
dynaudio (any)
yamaha hs, msp , or ns10 (lollool, why not ?)
any sort of full range speaker or small / big p.a. system

thanx alot people !!!