Grubs... You know me, and you've seen my spot first hand, and though I do like everything in excess (Even 6 sets of speakers now), there is still a reason to all the madness.... everything has it's place, and for a reason.
I think the biggest three factors are : Room Accoustics, Placement, and KNOWING your speakers!
There is no such thing as a perfect speaker. And you should ALWAYS use a sub along with your monitors.
A speaker made to hit the full spectrum is muddy'd by recreating that wide range of frequency across the same woofer.
And the speaker you mix on is not the speaker the end user is using
Then there is the 'mastering' which has just as much to do with how it will sound elsewhere, as does the way the mix sounds in the control room
Simplest thing to do to get desired results - meaning, the control room = the end user listening position:
RUN AN EQ before your signal hits your monitors, use a sub,
Now, PLAY A REFERENCE CD, set the EQ for each channel till it sounds how you want it to sound, set the sub the same
Now, when you mix, if it doesn't sound the way your reference did, you're not there.
An old trick that is failproof.
Now, I would not do this with my only pair of monitors, at least not until final mix, cause soloing individual tracks will have different perception due to being eq's on it's own for monitoring,
but for your overall mix, it's the ticket.
That's how we do our finals
