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Originally Posted by sphelan
I know I might be shot for asking this but...
Would I be better mixing on cans than using my current monitor set up (still have to talk to the misssus LOL!)?
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Nope. The sub is probably not a good idea, but one way you do it kinda use it and not use it. Turn it on to reference the low end when you need to, but leave it off most of the time.
Here's the deal...everybody listening? An acoustic environment is just like a wave tank. What happens when you increase the oscillator force? You get bigger waves, right? The waves are all in the same places (wavelength), they're just higher at the peaks and lower in the troughs (amplitude). When you turn a sub on, you're pouring a ton more energy below 70Hz into the room, which is increase the amplitude at the nodes **and** the nulls; in other words, the peaks are higher and the valleys are lower. Subs have to be carefully integrated into a space...it's not that they're useless, they just have to be planned for.
Frank