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Originally Posted by cincikat69
Thought so... and that's what I meant, but put them in quotes like that because that's what they are meant to be.
I have a lot of experience with those monitors, and there is nothing "truth" about them. The closest you can get is to turn off ie. flatten all of those controls (which you have). Then spend about a day making sure they are properly placed in the space. That's as close as you can get with them, but they "lie" to your ears by design.
Now, you said a bit ago that you "dumped" some of the "mastering chain" stuff. You need to get rid of all of that, send your tracks to the master bus, and spend time with each track one by one and get them right. If a track doesn't sound good flat, then the recording is bad...redo it. Then start putting those together into a clean mix. When you have that right, give it to someone else with more experience to master it...that's my "nutshell" version.
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totally get that.. BUT.. im trying to learn to do all this myself.. there is no reason why i cant and shouldnt be able to do this... i believe in my abilities and my talent... that not with standing previous critiques.. my mix to me is good.. levels are where i want them.. granted ive come to learn that the vocals sound good placed to my ears but its cuz i know what they are saying and when you know the lyrics you hear them pop out at you.. its a brain trick so after playing my masters back i can say hey they do need ot come up.. now for my preferences the drums by themselves are balanced and the tomes to my preference.. its just me as far as the tones.. with nothing else i the mix i like them.. the bass by itself good.. guitars etc but we all no by themselves doesn;t make the mix thats why its a mix.. and my mix pre master to me and my band is good... they are happy with tones and yes the timing in not in perfect quantize but its te attitude that makes it. not the perfect time.. ive been criticized in the pasat for using electronic drums cuz i put them in perfect time and that urks me... i have a hard time believing my mix is shit... its just hard to believe that it isn't good enough... levels and all are where my ears are telling me they should be.. now i could condense all that chain down but if you can see how im using them... high pass at 40 then a little saturation to give it color (that's not compression right? just a little tape warmth)next a high shelf to bring out the hats and cymbals.. granted i coulve done this with the first eq but keeping it seperate helps keep me organized. i popped in the maxx bass very low to color the kick and bass guitar just a smidge.. i could get rid of it its just a slight low coloration..i got rid of the destiny compressor used the imager to widen the guitars just a bit moremake the mix a little more roomy... again i couldve done this pre mix but the more stuff you have on a 30 channel song the more cpu one will use. the only thing im using the cs112m for is the final eq spread no compression or limiting whatso ever.. then the multiband then the clipper ot boost 3db but still no clipping and nothing near 0db in my master chain and finally the limiter with a thresh of 2-3 db ceiling of -0.01 i could dump down to one eq the multiband clipper then limiter but im still doing just that.. just in seperate stages... so im not sure maybe my thresholds on the multiband are too much??? maybe my ears are missing something that plug in isnt... i could screen shot it but i doubt that would help considering thats just one shot in time