Here's an interesting concept: studio monitor modeling (Focusrite VRM)

[Matt C]

You could also just buy multiple pairs of monitors!

[osiris]

Originally Posted by Matt C

You could also just buy multiple pairs of monitors!

And phase shift them with the first pair to cancel out the sound not to wake the baby?

[Matt C]

The baby will learn to sleep!

[osiris]

Found a software-only VST (with free trial) for €20: TB Isone
And a free one: Refined Audiometrics Laboratory

Think one of those will probably be fine for my needs now (can't mix for shit anyway) and won't add a new box to my already too cluttered desk.

[bulletbass man]

Honestly you can do pretty good mixes on the right pair of head phones alone. Any audio source is reference anyways. Clarity is the biggest issue with mixing with headphones compared to monitors. Unless you want to drop $$$$ on some Grado Music series II or pros or something along those lines. Spacialization is one of the first things lost in real life anyways. How many people listen to music on axis speaker systems. Not too many.

[eleven59]

I do my mixing 50/50 between AKG K240s and a JVC boombox. Is it reference quality? No. But I know how they sound, and how things will sound on other things. And then, I check my mixes on as many other sources as I can (iPod earbuds, Bose headphones, 2 different car stereos, built-in speakers in iMac, etc).

[AcidWing]

Originally Posted by Inazone

Somehow, I missed this thread earlier.

I have a Saffire Pro 24 DSP with the included VRM, and it's really cool. Although I have a dedicated music room with an insulated closet for miking cabs, my actual recording PC is in the main room of my basement, which is not acoustically treated and is the TV/movie/gaming/hanging-out room as well. In other words, I often use headphones. The Saffire's built-in VRM is great in my opinion. While it is going to be most useful if your headphones have a flat response already, being able to play back your mixes in different virtual environments with the attributes of different speakers is really handy. I really wish I would've had it available when we were mixing and mastering our album, rather than burning CD-Rs to play back on boomboxes, car stereos and elsewhere. Unfortunately, I thought that it seemed a bit "ghetto" to bring my $400 interface to a studio full of high-end hardware, and didn't bother.

Anyway, at first I thought VRM looked like a gimmick when reading the Focusrite specs, but having experimented with it a bit, I'm convinced that it'd be worth $99.

I'm actually considering picking up that interface. I've been in the market for a new one for quite a while, and I really dig focusrite products. So....now I just need to scrounge up some loose change...

[Chris]

Figure I'd post in the right thread.

I got this the other day and am not impressed with it at all. I'm not sure how they're generating their room reverb/dynamics but there is WAY too much of it. The living room setting sounds like you're in an empty basketball arena regardless of which monitors you select, and the bedroom setting isn't much better.