Necrox
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On 5/11/2018 at 5:52 PM, Nabeel Ansari said:
https://storeus.sonarworks.com/products/reference-4-headphone-edition
This is the best investment you can put into a headphone setup. They have EQ profiles for common pro headphones (including the 880 250ohm premium) and you can load it systemwide (and as a vst on your DAW master) to apply the exactly counter EQ contour to make your headphones as even and rounded (flat, yes, but I stopped using that term because it implies the music would sound lifeless) as possible. Systemwide is super great because I can listen to reference songs on my computer from music players or in the browser, or like play games/movies, and still have the sound correction.
You can also simulate other headphones and stereo systems with their stored profiles, instead of just going flat. And if you personally don't LIKE the completely flat response, you can also apply minor treble and bass adjustments to suit your tastes.
It also has a linear phase option, with some additional latency, to ensure there is absolutely 0 change to the sound outside of the spectrum's range of loudness.
Once I did it for my DT 880's I've sworn never to go back. The difference is actually pretty dramatic; as soon as I toggle the calibration off, the life is sapped out of the mix, the sound of the headphones themselves is pretty tinny and boomy by comparison, and hearing the difference explained basically all of my common mixing mistakes that people point out to me. Weak low mids, excessive bass, harsh upper mids, which were all unknowing compensations for the 880's actual frequency response. Listening to my older stuff on this, it was pretty clear.
Here is the DT 880's average freq response:
As it says in the legend, the BLUE is the headphone's average response, the GREEN is the EQ it applies to counter it, and the PURPLE is the end result (mostly flat, with some bass rolloff that doesn't matter too much in practice, and is necessary because of physics and whatnot).
This looks awesome; thank you for posting. I'll definitely save up for this.
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@timaeus222 What do you think of the A20 amp? This deal looks pretty sweet.
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I've just about had it with how garbage my mixes are; after (finally) getting serious about mixing and trying to learn mastering, I've realized that my headphones (Sennheiser HD202s) are the main limiting factor (other than my ears, but I've just about given up on that).
I'm looking at these headphones as they seem to be excellent for critical listening, but I've read that I'll probably need an amp as well. I can spare $200 but $480 is too much.
So, do I really need the amp? I'm at the point where my low-mid-heavy cans are simply not doing it anymore and I want something that I can use forever; is it worth taking the plunge?
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Hello all,
If you're interested in daily composition challenges and have yet to find one you like, you might find this one interesting.
At the very least you might find their themed challenges (write a song with a melody starting on beat 2 or 3, write a new theme song for the Pokemon games, etc) inspiring (you have to go to the main site and sign up for emails but it's worth it).
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3 hours ago, Beardless said:
i'm hell bent on making a remix or at least something that comes from this series because I see a pitiful amount of remixes for this spin off series T^T Why gods why!?
Go for it! Underrated series, especially music-wise.
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Submitted this for MnP and I'm wondering if it has some potential. Fire away.
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I understand the fundamentals of borrowed chords but is there some logic or pattern to implementing them? I get overwhelmed with the possibilities.
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21 hours ago, HoboKa said:
I also would like to be more cognizant of the other holidays, 'sides from X-mas and Hallow's Eve. Gotta at least add in Valentines Day...as that's probably the 3rd biggest "thematic" holidays, unless I add in America July 4th as an "ACTION-PACKED" theme or something. Any other thoughts on said matter? Oh! April fools!! =p unless you guys think that's too retarded.
Terrible joke mixes for April fools
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4 hours ago, HoboKa said:
sexy 69 - theme of love, picked by Necrox. It's not kinky per se, but it is romantic. The more deprived of us will just have to think of some shitty fan-fiction sex twixt Rosa and her love...or loves
oh mai
SIXTY NINE!!!....sorry about the black background...copied this from the ThaSauce page. Oh wells.
That was disgusting
This is MnP 69.
I believe I sent you the link to the week's theme?
Apparently in FB's on this day a friend said I had 69 friends 4 years ago...
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That's a nice bonus entry; It's like my approach but with cleaner reverb.
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Gorgeous and engaging mix, definitely communicates that sense of mystery and awe.
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This guy is peddling some sort of ear training e-book for a low price and he seems like a legit teacher but it's all too salesy (buy now x50, "free book" explaining that you should buy the full version, etc).
Has anybody gotten ahold of this product?
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Persona 3 has a lot of great sources.
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Oh yes, finally some MMBN.
- HoboKa and Starphoenix
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Tried to upload my remix of this tune yesterday but the wi-fi failed on me.
- Xenonetix and Starphoenix
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I've written this piece as the credit theme for a short film and the director loves it but jeez does it sound terrible. Despite spending hours tweaking velocities, EQing (internal/external), and trying different reverbs, I can't seem to get the "soft" tone I'm going for.
How can I make this workable? NI Grandeur with on-board reverb.
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I've been really liking the Reaktor Ensemble Skrewell and I wonder if there's some sort of (free, preferably) program that generates images according to the audio. The kicker is that I don't want a waveform or other spectrum-reading tool; I'm looking for something more abstract, like fractals and random patterns or whatever. I've googled but couldn't find anything.
Any paid jobs on this website?
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I am interested in your services as well.