Human Mistakes

[The_Metallurgist]

.........if you hear something in one of my mixes you don't like it's not because I'm being affected by my room; it's because I liked the sound the way you're hearing it.

this statement is incorrect and naive.

you have no way of telling how much you are being affected by your room. all untreated rooms, without exception, will have "severe" frequency response issues. headphones sacrifice stereo and depth image, and most will have extremely uneven frequency response issues too. being familiar with your gear doesn't address these problems, but merely conditions our brain's perceptions and colour's judgement. yes, even yours John......

i'd also add in passing, that if you can look at a spectrum for a vocal and deduce the tone from such, you are likely to be the first in living history to do so.

when did you last have your hearing professionally checked, by the way?