Advanced Mixing Flashcards
What are nearfield monitors?
- Smaller, closer monitors
- Commonly 2-way design with 4 – 8 inch
woofers. - Used at lower levels – which reduces room reflections, providing more direct sound for more accurate decision making
- Provides monitoring in the near-field (approx. 1m from the listener)
- Most standard choice for home/project studios
- In all studio setups the nearfield is an essential monitoring concern.
What are midfield monitors?
- Larger and more powerful than nearfield.
- Larger subwoofers and use 3-way systems.
- More suitable for use in larger listening rooms at greater listening distances.
- They provide a larger monitoring sweet spot.
- Require better room acoustics.
What are main/ far field monitors?
- Large soffit mounted (Inside wall) speakers used for high volume,
large speaker response monitoring. - Not used for mixing but rather reference during mixing and to blow the clients out of their seats.
- Room acoustics have to be top notch.
Why is it important to isolate your monitors?
Vibrations from the monitors can cause
structural resonance to occur producing
inaccurate bass response and can adversely effect stereo imaging accuracy.
What material is used inside of professional acoustic panels?
Rockwool.
Why are egg cartons not an option when acoustically treating a room?
They have a resonant peak that is very narrow, which would result in a narrow band of frequencies being reduced.
This has a negative effect on the acoustic response of the room, as a notch frequency reduction would cause major issues to the response of a room.
What are the most important areas to treat acoustically in a room?
The most important areas are on the left and right of the mixing position followed by the ceiling and front walls.
What is rear wall treatment for?
Rear wall treatment is placed to reduce late reflection issues such as “slapback”.
What are corner bass traps for?
Corner bass traps help reduce low frequency resonance (Standing wave) issues.
What is mixing in the box?
Mixing in the box is where the entire mix is performed inside the computer using virtual audio equipment (Plugins).
What are advantages of mixing in the box?
- Cheaper
- Portable
- Transferable
- Recallable
- Multiple processors on one track
What is mixing out of the box?
Mixing out of the box entails the use of
outboard hardware processors (Rack gear).
What are some advantages if mixing out of the box?
- Sound quality
- Real analogue “saturation” or “nonlinearities” are hard to emulate.
- Analogue “Mojo” or “saturation”
What are some disadvantages if mixing out of the box?
- Expensive
- Not as recallable
- Processors can only be used on one
channel. - Not portable
What is analogue summing?
The mix is split into multiple outputs and summed using a dedicated summing amp. These summing amps often have transformer based outputs to provide the benefit of analogue sonics.
