One big nasty thing that comes up with mixes from a lot of studios (home and otherwise) - You know that noise that your video monitors make - That "whine" anywhere between 13 and 16kHz?

Is it on your recording somewhere? It very well may be... I get a LOT of that...

Obviously, your ears get used to that sound in the room, and the monitors are on anyway, so if it's on your recording, HOW are you gonig to HEAR it?

Get the mix going, and turn your video monitoring OFF and closely listen for that whine. Again, it's pretty easy to notch out if it remains constant during mastering, but if it's only on a vocal track or a guitar track, do you really want that notch taken out of the entire mix?

John, good point!

I also get this weird whining sound from my Mackie control when it's on...which is always.

And needless to say the light dimmer switch on the wall produces similar results, so it's either off or all the way on while tracking.

-Stixxs

Great tip, John! When we were using a CRT in my last studio situation, we tried to keep it off during tracking once the levels were set. We were tracking in a seperate room, but just to be safe--plus it forced us to listen rather than look at waveforms.


*kicks back* Ahhhh, so glad I have a Cinema HD panel now


Now if only something could be done about the traffic noise and the yokels shuffling aorund in the alley below my studio...

Run a line from another alley that's out of phase with the yokels in the first one.

Get some gunfire samples.

No, then there'd be yokels AND pigs out there and, well, I ain't runnin no farm here, boy howdy

I think my LCD monitor is making a noise as well... I notice the noisefloor changed the other day when it went to sleep while I was tracking... I thought it was just my cheap headphone amp... I'm not positive of this yet, I'll have to look further into it.

My 21" CRT recently died... there are few worse feelings. So now I have this 17" that takes 45 seconds to wake up... errrr...

-Dusty