DH> -> to keep that in mind... cause the studio I have been using
DH> of late
DH> -> has EV's  for the speakers for the monitor system (Owner
DH> thinks
DH> -> bigger is better -)... So I bring my rough mixes home
DH> and
DH> -> listen on a cheap system then take notes at each spot that
DH> needs
DH> -> correcting... then I go back to the studio and fix it right!
DH> 
DH> -> (Lots of back tracking but it keeps everyone happy!) 
DH>
DH> Sure, it keeps everyone happy except for those with high end
DH> home  systems who want the music to be as sonically accurate as
DH> possible. That's why many old cd's sound good on mediocre systems, but
DH> junk on a  nice high end system.
I've heard the same thing (what I quoted) from several engineers who do 
high-tech reproduction. (Not just those who can't afford to go full digital 
recording).  In fact, some still do their recording on analog equipment, do 
some of the mixing on digital via computer programming (like to get out some 
of the hiss such as tape hiss,etc. with lowend or highend filter passes),(in 
fact, I witnessed a tape hiss at 33.5kHz be taken out purposely along with 
everything below it cause the engineer wanted to remove everything at 33.5kHz 
and above and hit the wrong filter button).  and then they've finished the 
mix doing the mix via analog and ears and then gone to the digital equipment 
to finalize the mix.  They've even gone back to an analog mix when something 
got tweeted out by the computer that wasn't supposed to, because of making a 
more "sterile" mix... like enhancing the upper and lower frequencies.  One 
fellow always did a smiley face on the eq for the final mix, with nothing 
below 0 on the eq just to make sure there was enough response on both ends, 
cause everything that got digitally reproduced was flat across the board.  He 
wanted a more "live" sound to his recordings.
And more folks have less expensive than high-end equipment.  Some folks still 
have only AM radios in their vehicles and less expensive equipment as well in 
their homes.  The biggest improvement of recent years was the ability to 
disguise or remove the digital sampling picket-fence... (It used to irritate 
me to no-end for someone to spend all that money in a studio, laying tracks 
and have the picket be so pronounced that it overrode the actual music).  
Most of the engineers I know hated it as well (which was the reason for doing 
both analog and digital mixing and some of them doing the final mix with 
analog (before putting it to dat).
It all boils down to: different strokes for different folks.  There's more 
than one type music, and more than one way to mix/record. That's also why 
there are bunches of studios... and engineers.
Nancy
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