Is now my very bestest friend in the whole wide world.

Ok so Audio in Media 6th edition is a "little" dated...but oh my was it englightening...

I would seriously recommend a rectec book of this sort espcially to have on the go for anyone in the engineering/recording industry. It even goes in depth on proper ways to mic up instruments and setup a sound-room with bass-traps and all!

Gone are the days (hopefully lol) of going 30 minutes to my friend's place to hear my mixes fall flat on their faces. (2500W sound system of doom) I'm also very kinesthetic (I <3 the feeling of sub-bass on a big soundsystem) so finally feeling one of my bass-lines full force with a good mix was nice.

I used the bassiest track I'm working on as practice to test out the rectec book's approach. It's...unmastered, how'd I (rather, the book) do? )

Monitors were : Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro, Yamaha HS80m.

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Last edited by theterran on Sep-07-2010 at 21:24

Hm, was hoping to get the opinion of some trained ears on this.

I don't care about the track itself in terms of musicality persay, but more or less how everything sits in the mix, how tight the bass/kick are, and the general sound quality...

In short, I'm finding it very difficult to get used to actual monitors, so atm I am not trusting of my own ears.

I've basically put together the necessary elements in any trance/dance piece and have filled the frequency range from about 33 hz to 16khz with kick/percs/bass/synths/FX (das white noise).

I figure once I get the technical mixing shit outta the way, I can add start putting some blood into my tracks. (It's just been sweat and tears so far...)

And you're free to rip it apart if you feel that it warrants it.