Monitoring Your Mix for Home Recording

Video Transcript

" Hi! My name is Jesus Cardoso, and I’m going to explain the differences on how we should monitor the music in different sources. For example, here in this room my monitors are these. They’re able to produce old frequencies and spectrum, so now and then I like to check my mix through the headphones. The headphones allow you to a much better image of the stereo panorama and it’s also in different reference. You never know what you’re listeners are going to be listening into, so it’s always best to mix in different and varied speakers. In the tracking room, the headphones are a must. When all your microphones are set, they will actually pick up every single thing that is happening and sounding in the room. So you cannot have the microphone pick up the voice of your singer, as well as picking up the whole music again. That’s why everyone uses headphones; that way, the music stays in your ears and not in the microphone. When you’re mixing all your work, which is basically putting all the tracks together, leveling them, putting EQ and compression, you want to have a good solid reference. This is a main studio monitor. The purpose is to give you a clear and accurate image of how the music is sounding without embellishing or putting any color or effects. This will basically give me exactly what’s recorded into the song. "