Doepfer

Hi Andreas,

I listen to my A100 through a mono mixer amp combo with a 100 watts 
of power. it is more like a powered wedge with stereo line 
in,instrument in mic in with xlr , phone and rca jacks. It helps to 
avoid blown stereo mix monitors, the wedge can a shit kicking. 

I mix my music with Vecteur front ported monitors. they are 
transparent across the whole range. No boxiness to them, which I find 
with most music related speakers and not with quality hifi speakers. 
also the imaging is vastly superior. I also like to mix at different 
levels. Positioning of the speakers is crucial as well. 

The lower the volume, the better. I use the mono wedge to gauge how 
the mix responds to loudness, it also helps low frequency balance(not 
for panning but the whole spectrum). most of the time if you layout 
your channel frequencies properly at low volume and all your bass is 
proper, it will translate well at louder volumes. Why do you see 
Auratone speakers in big studios? I wonder, also it saves your ears. 
you only need a couple runs or passes at louder volumes to determine 
if you did it right or sounds right the first time around. another 
tip, treat channel eq's with respect, it helps keep the headroom in 
check,unless you are really going for that deconstructive sound( I 
prefer waveshaping and filtering before the channel eq ).

another useful item is decoupling your speakers. I know a lot people 
call it hog wash but it really helps. if anyone wants to try an 
inexpensive way to decouple them, go to the hardware store and buy 
1/2" MDF board, cut them 1" more than the perimeter of your speaker. 
do some blind testing with a friend and see if you can spot which is 
no MDF and which is with MDF. you will be surprised at which you like 
better. Once you hear the difference, there dozens of other more 
expensive decoupling systems out there that could improve your mixing 
and playback speakers.

These opinions are not the holy grail of mixing, they are culled from 
years of listening to music and lots of experimenting. It's great to 
hear what other people have to say about the subject.

Regards,
RM





--- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com, "Andreas Lindholm" 
<andreas.k.lindholm@t...> wrote:
> After many years of striving to get the most neutral possible sound 
for
> audioning my music, both my own and others it just struck me. What 
the fuck
> am I doing? I know that certain speakers colors the sound i certain 
ways and
> so on, but in the end of the day I still try to mix my own stuff to 
sound i
> a special crunchy, bassrich and smooth style. So I know that I 
could easily
> just go out and pick up a set that would make almost everything 
sound good
> to me, but I don't ;)
> 
> So now I am qurious about you guys, what PA, phones, etc do you use 
to
> monitor you A100 and other gear and what is your philosophy?