Reply to thread

Message

[QUOTE="Greg Thompson, post: 430139, member: 49117"]
Hi guys, first time posting.  Been lurking for a few weeks but thought I should chime in on this:

Years ago as an assistant engineer at a big NYC studio I worked on an album mix project with a VERY FAMOUS mix engineer who is still doing lots of big label releases.  
His methodology might be different in rooms that he works in all the time (as this might have been his first time in this particular mix room AFAIK) but he said he always worked this way:
He plugged a set of standard Sony MDR V6 into a DAT machine set to input and used that as his headphone amp.  I think he spent 75% of his time working on headphones and the rest of the time on Yamaha NS-10 nearfields.  Never once went to the big speakers in the room unless the client asked.
I don't know how much of that was his methodology of keeping secrets as he worked, and how much of that was just knowing how things ought to sound on headphones, but his results were amazing.

So, I say:  If you can do it that way and your work translates to other places, then go for it!  
There is no wrong way to do things in this friggin' dark art we call mixing.

-Greg
[/QUOTE]

Verification

What month just passed