HOW TO TUNE YOUR STUDIO MONITORS | USING PINK NOISE AND STOCK PLUGINS

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In this video I share with you how to tune your studio monitors using pink noise. You can follow along using Cubase and stock plugins to achieve a great listening environment so your mixes will translate better regardless of where you listen to them. This will give you confidence to go do the car test and have confidence that what you hear in the studio will be the same everywhere else.

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16 апр 2020

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@BurningBushPedagogy 5 месяцев назад

Wow wonderful, and companies will create products and charge a fortune when it can be this simple.

@luisgregoriojr762 2 года назад

Ty Ty Ty!!! I am putting that eq in control room in Cubase so I won’t have to bypass the plug-in eq. Can’t thank you enough!!!

@chromaticproducer 9 часов назад

How far is the mic from the speakers when you record them?

@Iamdanybazz 5 месяцев назад

This is genius Keep going bro

@sanatapanda_official 8 месяцев назад

Wow wonderful technic ❤❤

@massfusionstudio Год назад

Did you try using your boundary EQ compensation switches first while referencing the pink noise in real-time? Most 31 bands are Q to 1/3 octave. Plus you're only seeing the curves go up or down without seeing how your room acoustics are affecting the frequencies. You should be doing a realtime with an actual measuring microphone and not a typical dynamic microphone. That drop in high end is probably the dip in the frequency response of the cardioid pattern of the mic used. Measuring mics are Omni and are engineered to be ruler edge flat frequency response. Those frequencies in between the 1/3 octave can be adjusted with a parametric EQ. 31 bands are a third octave of each next frequency on the scale. Third octave of 20 is 25.2. so using a third octave EQ is not the best idea. Your not adjusting the response of the speaker. You're altering the octave voice of the speaker. Boosting all those hi frequencies are going to make your high end sounds honky and nasal. Not natural. Your mixes will sound worse than when you applied EQ compensation. Correct idea. Wrong tool

@recordingriot3450 4 года назад

If you liked this video and want to see more please feel free to suggest a topic of what you’d like to see! Please subscribe and like the video, this is my first tutorial so please go easy on me :) cheers everyone!!!

@flash001USA Год назад

Really nice job thinking outside the box on calibrating your studio speakers without a major investment. I was going to use Sonarworks but it just doesn't want to behave on my DAW computer so I used an external stereo 31 band EQ along with a physical RTA that is in one of my gig racks and it worked quite well in flatting out the speakers response however I just didn't want to have a physical EQ in my rack for the DAW so my idea was to do something really close to what you did here and I created a master group track so that all of my individual tracks would have to pass through the master group track that I would use to run a solo calibration track through and when I am ready to bounce the mix down to a stereo track for mastering I just disable the EQ during the rendering process. I like your idea a lot but I have to ask you as to what you are using for a microphone to capture your speakers with? With Sonarworks and some of these other programs that are designed for this they will normally sell you a calibrated microphone or explain how to load your own reference microphone into the program so that you don't get added color from an unknown reference microphone such as a bump up in the high end or any other microphone artifacts that could cause the calibration not to be true enough. I do agree with you to do the sweep where you sit and listen and I love the way you were doing the comparisons using the plugin! I also agree with you 100% that it does NOT have to be perfect! The main thing is to nail the really big dips or hot spots and call it a day! I will now go and do what you did here with the exception that I will use my rack mount RTA because it comes with it's own calibrated microphone so I know what I'm working with. Great video man!

@recordingriot3450 9 месяцев назад

Thank you so much for the nice comment and reaching out, sorry it’s taking me forever to respond to this. I’m actually using sonar works now and I use their microphone that comes with the software. It essentially does the same thing and is pretty accurate from my experience. I try not to get to caught up in the perfection of things but it’s really important to be able to hear what you are mixing if your goal is to get a nice balanced mix. Using your method I think will serve you tremendously and you will have great results from it. Make me super happy I was able to help some lone or at least confirm their direction a little bit. The science part of music creation can be fun too!! Cheers brother!!

@flash001USA 9 месяцев назад

@@recordingriot3450 I actually have Sonarworks on a second computer but I use it with my Samson headphones which Sonarworks already had a pre-eq'ed plugin which simplified things on that end. I would use the Sonarworks software on my DAW but Sonarworks but it does not like my digi hammerfall sound cards because they are a bit older but they have great specs and I'm not willing to go out and spend more money for a newer set of sound interface cards especially when there is a workaround for the cards like you did in this video. Once again, thanks for your video.

@recordingriot3450 9 месяцев назад

@@flash001USA oh yeah 100% agree use the work around. Can’t justify spending money if what you have is doing what you need it to do!! I’m just using it because I got it super cheap with a Black Friday deal and it takes the guess work out of all of it. Happy mixing friend :)

@scottquality 3 месяца назад

Just add the EQ to a listen bus and there’s no need to bypass.

@ronaldsamuels8417 3 года назад

Nice....but which track did you insert the eq in to make adjustments...ref or rec track?

@recordingriot3450 3 года назад

The eq is applied to the the recorded pink noise track, then once it’s matched to the ref you then take that eq an put it on your master stereo out so that all of your tracks are affected by it. When you go to export make sure and remove the eq from your master. It’s only there to change your listening environment to a more accurate representation of what’s actually there in the mix. Hope this helps!!!

@joshd265 4 месяца назад

Is this based on recording a sample of your monitors through a microphone? Anyway to do this without recording?

@recordingriot3450 4 месяца назад

Hey yes it is, you need to know somehow what your frequency response is of your speakers so that you can make the correct calibrations for them.

@Randomhero3 4 года назад

What is your favorite band?

@recordingriot3450 3 года назад

That’s a tough one, I like muse a lot these days, the dangerous summer, a day to remember, all sorts of stuff. My favorite mixer might be an easier answer! Thanks for commenting

@frankylitoy2796 3 года назад

what mic did you use capturing the pink noise ?

@recordingriot3450 3 года назад

I used a shure ksm 27, def not the correct mic to use but don’t feel like you can’t use what you have. Just take a look at what the curve is for the mic your using and keep in mind it’s going to boost or cut those frequencies. I know my mic boost at around 5-6k so I took that into account. It’s not perfect but it’s definitely better. I know bc I can trust my mixes more now bc they sound how they are supposed to everywhere else when I listen to them. Side note, I’ve since upgraded to sonar works reference 4 for measurement and it’s amazing. Def worth the 229 that comes with the measurement microphone. Thanks for commenting

@frankylitoy2796 3 года назад

@@recordingriot3450 Yes this is so informative thanks to you! I was using Audio Technica AT2050 a while ago lol. Will this be ok? Especially i was just staring correcting my room a while ago. Defenitely would purchase that Reference 4 soon!

@recordingriot3450 3 года назад

Yeah that mic would work just fine, use it bro :) when you can I’d def suggest the sonar works ASAP though. You’ll be asking why you didn’t do this sooner trust me! Glad I can help out!