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| quote: | Originally posted by alanzo
I just gave a listen to music with low production quality (some of my own). It's interesting that a lot of it sounded awesome on the HR824s and on my Sony MDR 7506 headphones, but it sounds AWEFUL on the Focals. But tracks like Air For Life, commercial releases with great production quality, sound quite nice.
So I guess there is a real audible difference between the HR824s and the Focals. But it just doesn't seem like it since, like I said, sound is what it is.
It's funny that I like how my latest production sounds on my Sony Headphones A LOT more than how it sounds on the Focals. But it would have sounded completely different had I done it on the headphones. That's also something to really consider, how your monitoring system shapes the sound of your productions. |
The question you need to be asking yourself about any music that sounds good on the Sony's and terrible on the Focals is: How well is it translating? Remember that this is one of the top reasons you bought $3,000 monitors in the first place.
Trust me, I know how you feel, because my stuff sounded bad on the Focals as well. However, there is no better feeling than knowing the Focals well enough to the point that stuff sounds good on any system you play it on. That piece of mind is worth $3,000.
Give it some time and let yourself get used to how things are supposed to sound on the focals. Reference LOTS of other (well produced) music while doing your first few mixdowns.
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