DTS wrote:Yeah? Fuck you.
OK here, I'll bite, since you seem to be sad.
You say you need to tweak old music so it sounds like "it's originally intended." That's a pretty fucking vague statement, but ignoring that, how should anyone know what "it's originally intended" to sound like? Again, unless you know what you're doing, tweaking the EQ will 9 times out of 10 just ruin the fucking mix. If you're gunna tell me that you should be tweaking the EQ to account for shitty speakers then I will tell you to just buy higher quality speakers. No music will ever sound good on boombox speakers or computer speakers. Furthermore, most re-mixes/re-releases/etc. of old content simply put a super high-end digital compressor over the mix, one that could not have existed back in the day when the original mix was produced. That's about it. Perhaps they do some minor EQ'ing over it, or an "exciter" (which is basically still a compressor.)
Different producers have different sound systems? Yeah, and the sky is blue. Are you suggesting that we should all research the $500,000 sound systems our favourite producers use and then devise some sort of compensation EQ package to make our sound system try to match that? Mastering engineers gear their mixes towards consumer grade sound systems because they know that most people don't have high quality shit. There's an old saying that engineers use -- "sometimes monitors are too precise." They are so clear that you can hear very minor tweaks and variances in EQ, compression and gain that simply are
physically unable to be replicated on lower grade consumer gear. Thus, they typically stop splitting hairs at a certain point in the mix because they know it's a wasted effort.
Not sure what the fuck THX has to do with any of this.
Also, another comment about old music: most of it sounds better because it preserves dynamic content, which is what makes music sound lively, punchy, organic, 3D and with depth. Granted, a very well placed compressor will do just about as good, but by the very nature of compression, you are losing dynamic content. Most old mixes sound fucking great, sometimes better than newer mixes, if you just turn it up. There's a volume knob for a reason. I'm sorry that most people are too lazy to realize that compression has basically turned all music into fucking mush, but if a song is quieter or louder than the previous one, just use the god damn volume knob.
Anyway, I've already stated that small tweaks here and there on the EQ are OK if you truly feel it will help. But again, most people simply can't even hear a +2dB in the 500hz range, for example. So why bother?
mrd so fucking clueless. Sound systems have changed over the years, so unless you are only listening to the latest stuff you are going to need to tweak the EQs to get it to sound as originally intended. Now, re-releases could have that done already, but they (generally) don't. Also different producers have different sound systems, they are not all the same, so you might want - if not need - to tweak the EQs to account for that aswell.
As you wish guys, I like it 