Advanced Mixing Flashcards
How are near field monitors setup?
In an equilateral triangle with the speakers sitting about a meter apart from each other, and your head (and ears) positioned at the third point of the triangle, about one meter away from each of the two speakers and centered between them.
What distance should your monitors be from you?
3-5 Feet equal distance
What height should your tweeters be?
Ear Height
How can you isolate your monitors?
specialized speaker stands, purpose produced isolation stands or foam isopads.
What is frequency slap back and what else is it called?
Frequency slap back is high frequency reflections otherwise known as flutter echo.
What broadband absorber reduces all the frequencies in a studio
Rock wool
What are advantages of mixing “In the box”?
- Cheaper
- Portable
- Transferable
- Recallable
- Multiple processors on one track
What are disadvantages of mixing “In the box”?
- Always an analogue simulation
- Requires extra work to sound more like hardware
- Not quite as much sonic character as analogue
processing………. Yet. - No fancy studio console to show off to your
instagram followers.
What are advantages of mixing “out the box”?
- Sound quality
- Real analogue “saturation” or “non-
linearities” are hard to emulate. - Analogue “Mojo” or “saturation”
What are disadvantages of mixing “out the box”?
- Expensive
- Not as recallable
- Processors can only be used on one
channel. - Not portable
How are Tonal or dynamic adjustments, such as Equalization (EQ), Dynamics, Reverb traditionally done?
mono or stereo.
What is saturation?
Saturation is a kind of non-linear distortion created when using analogue equipment such as tape, tubes and transformers.
