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The acoustical perils of moving.
Well, me and my girlfriend moved to a new apartment a few months ago.
Now, since I´m somewhat of a music/studio addict, almost as soon as I got the stuff through the door (after painting though) I quickly rigged a "preliminary" version of my studio. Getting some synths and stuff up on a table, getting the computer working, monitors in place and so on.
Well, a couple of weeks later, a friend and colleague at the soco studio asked me to create an electro/dance remix for Vasa Gospel. Yea, sure, I said. I knew I didn't have the studio set up properly, but I thought I had it running well enough to put together a remix. No prob.
Right, went to work, and after the initial stuggle getting to grips with the material (gospel isn´t really the kind of music I normally work with), things were progressing nicely. All new parts laid down, and a few nights later, I had a mix that sounded pretty good. Or so I thought. Well, just a a reference, I played another remix that I and Spirou here on the forum had completed a few months earlier in my previous apartment,a remix that I knew had a similar sound, and one that I knew sounded good on most if not all systems.
Whoooa. That mix suddenly sounded awful. Boomy bass, harsh midrange, sharp top end. Not a good sign. By now, I was pretty sure that my nice sounding new remix was, in fact, sounding like crap. Bounced the remix and brought it to the soco studio. Confirmed. The bottom end was weak and lacking definition, midrange muddy, and all kinds of strange things happening in the highs. The vocals, that were quite a bit forward in the mix I thought, was almost unintelligible. Not good.
To make matters worse, I have quite a different set of plugins and stuff at home, compared to the soco studio, so moving the project and mixing there wasn´t really an option. So, well, I took notes of what was wrong, and tried to fix it at home. After a few repetitions of this procedure, I got the remix sounding pretty OK. Not entirely satisfied, but OK. Good enough to come out decent from mastering at least.
Right now, I´m trying to decide not if, but what acoustic panels to get. Those ghost acoustics panels sure look nice...
Now, since I´m somewhat of a music/studio addict, almost as soon as I got the stuff through the door (after painting though) I quickly rigged a "preliminary" version of my studio. Getting some synths and stuff up on a table, getting the computer working, monitors in place and so on.
Well, a couple of weeks later, a friend and colleague at the soco studio asked me to create an electro/dance remix for Vasa Gospel. Yea, sure, I said. I knew I didn't have the studio set up properly, but I thought I had it running well enough to put together a remix. No prob.
Right, went to work, and after the initial stuggle getting to grips with the material (gospel isn´t really the kind of music I normally work with), things were progressing nicely. All new parts laid down, and a few nights later, I had a mix that sounded pretty good. Or so I thought. Well, just a a reference, I played another remix that I and Spirou here on the forum had completed a few months earlier in my previous apartment,a remix that I knew had a similar sound, and one that I knew sounded good on most if not all systems.
Whoooa. That mix suddenly sounded awful. Boomy bass, harsh midrange, sharp top end. Not a good sign. By now, I was pretty sure that my nice sounding new remix was, in fact, sounding like crap. Bounced the remix and brought it to the soco studio. Confirmed. The bottom end was weak and lacking definition, midrange muddy, and all kinds of strange things happening in the highs. The vocals, that were quite a bit forward in the mix I thought, was almost unintelligible. Not good.
To make matters worse, I have quite a different set of plugins and stuff at home, compared to the soco studio, so moving the project and mixing there wasn´t really an option. So, well, I took notes of what was wrong, and tried to fix it at home. After a few repetitions of this procedure, I got the remix sounding pretty OK. Not entirely satisfied, but OK. Good enough to come out decent from mastering at least.
Right now, I´m trying to decide not if, but what acoustic panels to get. Those ghost acoustics panels sure look nice...
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4 comments
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rodney |
about 1 year ago |
- Check out the Vicoustic stuff, it's amazing value for money. I just bought a ton of it for our studio.
http://www.mi7.com/products_item.asp?id=2631&longtext1=show&from=tree -
Mindmovie |
about 1 year ago |
- I have a bass frequency problem in my studio - believe it or not but wha thelped me because I did not want to put any absorbers or plastics on the wall of my flat - I use a Sennheiser HD650 headphone to finally check my mixes. This headphones sound pretty neutral - at least if I listen to my mixes on other stereo applications, such as friends hifi, or in my car, or in our practising room.
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rydan |
about 1 year ago |
- Actually, that is one of the reasons I'm looking at Ghost Acoustics. Since you mount a frame with like four screws, and then put the absorber in the frame, that can be removed again without causing too much damage to the apartment, at least compared to gluing foam plates direct to the walls.
Or, well, is there any other (less irreversible) way to fix standard acoustics plates to the walls? -
Spirou |
about 1 year ago |
- You can ask if Boki wants to stand against the wall holding the plates? That might work =)
