Mix Cube

No auratone, but am using avantones--they are extremely helpful to clear up the midrange, as too much congestion sounds awful on them in a way that might only sound mediocre on full-range, ported speakers. My understanding is the Avantones are a bit more hyped than the Auratones, but this works real

Right now I'm just using my single Avantone mixcube + HD650s (with Sonarworks correction) and they get me about 95% of the way there with all my mixes. Untreated room and sort of temporary living situation so I won't be changing that. My midrange feels great on just these two. I occasionally test in

We can talk anecdotes and opinions all day. If you look at the EBU Tech paper section 2.2, they specify to 40 Hz. The KH80 is -4 dB at 55 Hz. So granted, they don’t quite get there, but I’ll say that even 60 Hz plus some headphones is sufficient. https://tech.ebu.ch/docs/tech/tech3276.pdf https://ww

I have a similar appreciation for my Avantone Mixcubes. Mine are passive and powered by an amp with tone controls, so they’re slightly tuned toward a more 'normal' response... but they still roll off lows and highs, keeping the focus on the midrange. Midrange-focused monitoring is arguably less fati

Could be phase. This is the fun of mixing. The speaker test. Where the mix sounds great on something then elsewhere falls apart. I got some headphones from avantone that let you switch from stereo to mono and then another setting that emulates their mixcubes which messes with midrange. These things

I find certain aspects of a mix just so much more immediately obvious on monitors. They give more of a perspective of the overall forest rather than the trees, as you can literally "zoom out" and get some distance from your mix and hear how it sounds in the air from further away than 0.5", which is

You'd be better off spending some extra coin on the Gen 4 or 5 series or getting an Avantone mixcube. The Classics were amazing besides a weird muddy resonance in their low mids, the G4 and up addresses that and have a pretty flat response. Anything in the sub $400 budget range (Yamaha hs, JBL lsr,