Tiring, Obelix mix

[pauli]

i'm afraid i don't agree with Pauli on this one. if you can't hear what's really going on, you aren't mixing. IMPORTANTLY, if you can't hear, you can't improve...and if you can't improve you're wasting your life away.

Don't misunderstand me, that's not what I mean at all. All I mean is that giving up altogether while you're saving for 10 years for studio grade monitors is also, to quote Dave, wasting your life away. It's still possible to improve on your critical listening skills and mixing habit, to a point (and my I emphasize, to a point!) while you're working on a better listening environment. To my working class mind, making small but significant improvements to your monitoring while you're saving up for the big wins is a lot better than wasting your days off watching TV if it means you can keep doing something you enjoy.

Dave's right, though... there's a very good reason top engineers are mixing commercial records on such high quality equipment. If it could be done on cheap dolby's and whatever hi-fi system they had laying around, there'd probably be someone out there doing it.... you'll find there isn't. The fact that we haven't heard a significant improvement over the last 100 mixes is a little troubling and suggests to me that maybe you're being a little stubborn.