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I'm in the process of treating my bedroom for mixing music (broadband bass traps, rugs etc), and I wondered if anyone could clear something up for me (I'm hoping this is the right forum to ask this).
Once my room treatment is complete, I'll obviously still have some frequencies that stick out, and I'll need to do something about them. At the moment I'm trying to keep costs down, and I can't actually attach anything to walls (rental place), so EQ seems like my only option. Most of the advice on these forums concerns using a program like Room EQ Wizard to work out a compensatory EQ that is basically the inverse of the room's frequency response, thus getting a fairly flat response across the spectrum. However, this assumes that pleasant sounding playback is the most important criterion - I'm primarily mixing. I don't want to mix on what sounds like perfectly tuned speakers only to find that I'm still overcompensating in my mix for peaks and nulls.
If I create an EQ setting that flattens the perceptual frequency response of the room, should I apply it while mixing, and then remove it when creating the final mixdown? My (albeit very naïve) view is that this would allow me to create a mix that has a built-in compensation for my room's frequency anomalies, and then mitigate this compensation when mixing down for playback on other systems.
Any clarification would be greatly appreciated.
--Sam
Once my room treatment is complete, I'll obviously still have some frequencies that stick out, and I'll need to do something about them. At the moment I'm trying to keep costs down, and I can't actually attach anything to walls (rental place), so EQ seems like my only option. Most of the advice on these forums concerns using a program like Room EQ Wizard to work out a compensatory EQ that is basically the inverse of the room's frequency response, thus getting a fairly flat response across the spectrum. However, this assumes that pleasant sounding playback is the most important criterion - I'm primarily mixing. I don't want to mix on what sounds like perfectly tuned speakers only to find that I'm still overcompensating in my mix for peaks and nulls.
If I create an EQ setting that flattens the perceptual frequency response of the room, should I apply it while mixing, and then remove it when creating the final mixdown? My (albeit very naïve) view is that this would allow me to create a mix that has a built-in compensation for my room's frequency anomalies, and then mitigate this compensation when mixing down for playback on other systems.
Any clarification would be greatly appreciated.
--Sam