{"id":3081,"date":"2012-10-24T09:23:10","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T16:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=3081"},"modified":"2022-10-01T13:19:54","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T20:19:54","slug":"fine-tuning-the-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/24\/fine-tuning-the-room\/","title":{"rendered":"fine-tuning the room"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been fine-tuning the studio in preparation for work on the soundtrack, plus<\/em> I have some other work coming up for Leannan Sidhe – their Roses and Ruin<\/i> project and<\/em> some second-studio work on their next full studio album. (Having their main engineer and studio be in Oregon when they’re in Seattle is problematic from a scheduling standpoint, so I’m helping out.)<\/p>\n

And I have to tell you something: before the latest round of adjustments, I would never<\/em> have put the words “Bose” and “precise” in the same sentence together. Not without also including the word “not,” anyway. I even dragged Anna upstairs and into the room to listen and she was all, “…<blink> wow<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

Remember my Bose? I’ve talked about them before. They’re old 301s, from this post where I talk about how terrible they sounded in the living room<\/a> because of the room’s odd shape – see the link, it’s relevant. They sounded much better in the studio – a rectangular room – but still not the way you’d think they should.<\/p>\n

Turns out, the way to get their best performance is to put them in a finely-tuned recording studio. IS THAT ALL? WHO KNEW!? \u30ce\u0ca0\u76ca\u0ca0)\u30ce\u5f61\u253b\u2501\u253b<\/p>\n

But I put on a test track and was suddenly transported back to my radio days, because they finally<\/em> sounded like pro gear. I was… not<\/em> expecting that! It’s not even that they’re just high-end precise; they’re unexpectedly crisp in the low end, too. You particularly hear it in percussion and bass guitar; suddenly, I’m hearing things I’ve never heard before, which means they’re worth having as monitors<\/em>. For special cases.<\/p>\n

Anyway, here’s a video showing the current state of studio tuning. It’s short, and annotated heavily. Enjoy!<\/p>\n