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Post by Hexspa on Apr 23, 2021 10:45:08 GMT
In another thread, Mr. Lawrence shared a 1.5dB/oct house curve for studios. I've since implemented such a curve; or so I think. Surely, this noticeably changes the experience my system gives me.   The more high-passed one is the mix cube. I'm posting these for critique or reference if they're right. I realize that I'm suffering from a dip in the lower mids, though I'm not sure what I can currently do about it. The mixcube has 1dB added via low shelf @ 500Hz and a 4dB shelf added at 10kHz. The full-range system is using a 2dB boost on the speakers themselves. The main thing I realized is that the mix to my last track was terrible. As it turns out, low frequencies heavily mask higher ones so that's why a curve like this is valuable. It makes you consider your bass more closely and boost your higher frequencies. Anyway, glad to have found this info. Hopefully it helps my mixes! |
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Post by Michael Lawrence on Apr 23, 2021 12:25:49 GMT
Is this trace with both sides on, or just one?  You might be interested to try taming that hi-mid bump around 1 - 2 kHz very slightly with a single wide gentle PEQ at 1.5 kHz, or two filters (one around 900 Hz maybe 1/2 oct wide, -3, and one around 2 kHz, 1.5 oct wide, -2) just to bring that region more inline with the surrounding area. My guess is you might find that a bit more preferable and should help avoid a little deficiency in that area in your finished mixes. Just a thought. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2021 13:05:02 GMT
You can't really say from FR graph how things sound...
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Post by Hexspa on Apr 23, 2021 14:15:14 GMT
Is this trace with both sides on, or just one? View AttachmentYou might be interested to try taming that hi-mid bump around 1 - 2 kHz very slightly with a single wide gentle PEQ at 1.5 kHz, or two filters (one around 900 Hz maybe 1/2 oct wide, -3, and one around 2 kHz, 1.5 oct wide, -2) just to bring that region more inline with the surrounding area. My guess is you might find that a bit more preferable and should help avoid a little deficiency in that area in your finished mixes. Just a thought. Hi, Mr. Lawrence. Thanks for chiming in. That sounds great. RME's software mixer only has three bands plus a low cut so I'll see what I can manage. I suppose I can always slap an EQ on my mix template as well. I was kind of afraid to use too much EQ but I guess it's ok. This trace is with both speakers plus a sub and 1/3 octave smoothed. That's for the full range one. The other is just the one mix cube. Perhaps applying that midrange EQ in the DAW will be best and then I can use the RME EQs to tailor each speaker since they both kind of match now. I'll post measurements once I take new ones. That might not be soon but I'll definitely try it. Thank you! |
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Post by Hexspa on Apr 23, 2021 14:17:54 GMT
You can't really say from FR graph how things sound... That's true but, in general, aren't we likely to negatively compensate for FR deviations? Like, if my system has no bass, I might put too much. I will say that, as it stands, my subwoofer sounds too loud to me. That is partially likely to my sensitivity to bass as well as the depressed midrange. In fact, I was recently reading an article that said a lack of low mids could make your bass and upper midrange sound disconnected. That's easily representable with a FR plot. It could be ringing too since I have a particularly strong resonance around 68Hz or so. |
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