What Is The Most Important Part Of Your Studio?
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- In this video I discuss what the most important part of my studio is. Many will think I would say all the analogue equipment but that is not the case. The most important part of my studio by far, is my room and monitoring. It is so important to hear audio you can trust that is perfectly accurate. Mixes and masters translate better to other systems and errors in the mix have nowhere to hide when listening is such high quality in an accurate listening environment.
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The room is an instrument. Treat it good and it gives you back 100x times what you need I have spent 1 year with acoustic treatment without touching any analog gear. It's worth it.
I did a lot of research in room correction and don’t have the money (yet) for a Trinov so I got a MiniDSP with Dirac which works really well for me. I can definitely recommend it if you’re on a budget 👌🏼
I did better acoustic treatment and tuned my speaker system and it was an upgrade that I needed to do so much earlier. Absolutely the best investment I’ve done.
I bet you also feel more confident in your sound
@@AudioAnimalsStudio I definitely asked myself how I was able to make decisions without it. I never had to do a car check again and finally had good translations.
@@AudioAnimalsStudio Definitely this. A few k in room treatment and upgrading to GML equipped monitors from regular 8040s made a bigger difference than any of the outboard I acquired. Certainly wish now I'd known better, and spend much more on the room and speakers before expanding the outboard. But what I love about this is the infinite opportunity to learn and explore. Every day's a school day and with each lesson the mixes get a tiny bit better. So it is all good. No regrets. Just learnings.
1 - monitoring
2 - your talent and your ears
3 - your equipment and environment
LEARNING YOUR ROOM AND SPEAKERS AND PRACTICING YOUR OWN IDEAS OF AUDIO KNOWLEDGE TO PERFECTION..THAT'S WHAT GET YOU A GRAMMY..
It is a lot easier to learn a good room and speakers compared to learning all the imperfection and errors a bad room has and hoping you are adjusting for them correctly.
@@AudioAnimalsStudio A good room I mean ,, that's why audio requires the fundamental investment
@T-BOUNCING best investment you can make as an audio engineer
"What's the most important part of your studio?"
If you're not answering "Delay Llama" then quit immediately.
@@dismalfist closely followed by the sound goodizer
Which rt60 do you have?
I believe that to make a pro mix/mastering you need to be a skill full producer/engineer, that's it. After you just need a DAW with standar plugins, standar speakers like NS10 and larger drivers in order to check the low-end. The rest is marketing purposes or reach people who like to thing that they are good because of their nice room, speakers...
I used to think the same thing until I started working in good rooms with good systems. I'd go back to my studio chasing the sound I was achieving in those accurate rooms.
That would be my bucket to piss in while having 12 hour recording sessions with live whales for an upcoming ''nocturnal relaxation sessions with whales, donkeys and fireflies'' album for an undisclosed famous artist 🐳🐴🔥🪰
Sounds like a unique project
😂 may I guess ?
Is that artist living in Sweden 😮
Is your room floating? Is it possible to get a professional sound from a non-floating room?
Yes, all of the studios we have are floating. I feel it's very important. But that being said you could certainly gain a professional sound from a room that isn't floating.
Agree agree but i remember a mix with the masters where the top mixer left stage of Andrew Schieps said he has like only two random acoustic treatments in a random room. That guy and the kid mixing on laptop and headphones is making great or better mixes than $$$ setup.
I hear this all the time. 2 pounts here. What people say and what people do in practice are two different things. Remember when Jason Joshua told everyone that he uses the God Particle plugin as the only plugin he needs for mastering. Well, lots of people fell for it. Great marketing and made lots of sales off the back of it. Secondly, you are referring to 0.0001% of engineers who have the ability to do this. Mixing the best mix possible in a room that is highly inaccurate isn't something 99% of people can do. Just because 0.00001% of engineers can do this doesn't mean everyone else should do this and it'll work out great. Because it won't. This comes with experience. And thirdly just imagine how much better the mix would be and how much easier it would be to mix a great mix in an accurate room compared to a bad room. Often these ideas are pushed but never practiced by the person practicing them.
Let's keep it real... KRK speakers are rubbish. 😂
I went easy on them
Vero
The room, and also know the room upside down, by working and working and working, then the monitors and converters.
The acoustics, monitors and D/A to the speakers has been a massive unspoken asset to a studio that I only saw getting talked about on RUclips commonly in the last 5 years.
It's more important than the analogue gear for sure.
If you start a mixing studio and do it all from a laptop with a perfect monitoring system (system means every part not the just the speakers as that term goes over peoples head when starting out) you will then start earning enough to then use the over flow of profit for all the extras to make it even better.
It is a 80% difference before you begin to add all the things that give you all those extra 1% 2% differences to add up to 99% (we can never claim 100% when there's a lot of subjective opinions to sound)
I'd even say controllers is next to speed up your workflow to get more projects before you begin adding these analogue units for those little increases.
Not sure if this is the same for recording... maybe a very high end headphone system if you intend to send the martial elsewhere to get mixed and mastered.
100%. What good if analog gear is you can't hear what it is doing?
The banking app on my phone that lets me get at the spoils 😂
The engineer
@Wolfbabypuppylove I said in the video "obviously your knowledge and ability is the most important thing" that kind of goes without saying.
I know the answer to this without even watching the video. The most important part of this studio is Paul! (And Nick of course.)
Well yes that goes without saying
You took the knobs from the legacy knobs on the normal HE2, looks cool
Yeah. And the legacy version looks better with the standard black knobs on it.
That's one thing I wish I'd have known at the beginning of my home studio build. That the order or priority or major benefits of being able to mix are: Skills/Experience, Then 'The Room', then the monitoring.... the 'gear' its only going to add that little bit extra, an the benefit of that little bit extra is not going to be as accurate or 'good' without those three things being at a high level. I'd have saved a LOT of money (and my setup would by 2x AA animal rigs, inc the room) lol.. so now instead of buying more plugins, more kit etc. I'm investing in the skills. enjoying the kit for what it is - and hell it is a LOT of fun to use. But in 2026, will invest in an AA grade room to monitor and mix in. That's the next step. This post speaks a lot of sense. @Paul - irony is. I'd have payed 25K for that info when I reach out for advice asking what to do to build my studio. So next time a nutter emails you randomly. Maybe rethink the approach to respond :-) All good though.
That's why I make these videos to hopefully plant the seed in someone's head to think about the importance of having a good room.
@@AudioAnimalsStudio should have posted the room vids sooner then lol. I’m winding you up btw.
@@infojunkie4989 on the plus side now you have lots of nice gear as well as a nice room.
I think people just don’t understand how important your room and monitors are to your mixes. As soon I did a major room treatment my mixing translated 75% better. I know for sure the Trinnov system will take me 90% I don’t think I can get anything above that because my room is small. I did a lot of research and I think I did a great job considering its size.
I can confirm adding a trinnov to even an already great sounding room, it really does improve it. I was reluctant at first to spend £12k on a trinnov but I had the opportunity to test one in my room on my system. It truly blew me away. I've since added one to every studio. You just can't live without it once you hear the difference.
@@AudioAnimalsStudio Great job on your videos. I am back to analog also. I knew it was the key to what I was missing, at this point I am using plugins that I know are really useful.
@TheKule1 thank you. Glad you are enjoying the content.
just answering to the question: the audio engineer.
It looks you are missing basic speakers like the Auratone cube one ….
I dunno bro. Sounds like that room has a lot of purple build up to me…
No, the most important thing is in my opinion (in the world we live in now and working with analog hardware combo) the A/D conversion box. That's it. You don't have that high end, you can do whatever you want, you will have a sh.... sound in the end, or not as good as you would have. Monitoring can be done by high end headphones, you don't need a perfect room. And even if the room is bad, if you listening in this "bad room" music (all music, not just yours) year after year you are used to this room and you can compare the sound with reference tracks in this same "bad room". So converters and knowing your stuff (your system) is the most important thing. But of course if you constantly buy new stuff you'll never get to the place of perfection because it's always something you don't know well, yet and you're pushing that in your "system" ...
@b.hornetiii.6771 you may change your mind when you get the chance to work in a good room and hear how much of a difference it makes to your choices. But your opinion is very valid based on your own experience up until now.