Studio room emulation plugins

[elser]

I use both headphones with NX and the ARC 2 system and like them both. I think listening through as many different systems as you can is helpful so I constantly go back and forth between the two systems, then I'll listen to my monitors with the ARC switched off and headphones with NX switched off. With ARC 2 it also has various speaker emulations such as Yamaha NS10s, car speakers, desktop speakers, etc... I use all of these options so that hopefully my mixes will translate on any system. HTH!

[ChrisEmond]

Thanks Elser!

I'll be testing a few of the suggestions I've been receiving over the next few weeks and will get back to this topic.

[ChrisEmond]

Great information Graham. Thanks!

[davekropf]

As someone who doesn't have amazing studio monitors, I've had great success by making sure I reference my tracks across multiple sound sources that include: headphones, car stereo, home theater system, ear buds, in-ear monitors, iPhone speakers, and iPad speakers.

From these tests, I get a consensus for what changes I need to make to a mix.

[LOCK88]

As someone who doesn't have amazing studio monitors, I've had great success by making sure I reference my tracks across multiple sound sources that include: headphones, car stereo, home theater system, ear buds, in-ear monitors, iPhone speakers, and iPad speakers.

From these tests, I get a consensus for what changes I need to make to a mix.

+1 on Dave's comments, and his mixes turn out Great. I do the exact same thing. I get close switching between NS10's, Aurotones, cheap iPhone earbuds, and DT 770's. I usually switch my listening source every 10-15 minutes during mix down. Once I feel like I am close, I put the mix through my final test, which is the car stereo. When it sounds good on EVERy source, I know I am done. If I did have an emulation plugin, I would just add it as another listening source to switch between while mixing.

[mikehamm123]

As someone who doesn't have amazing studio monitors, I've had great success by making sure I reference my tracks across multiple sound sources that include: headphones, car stereo, home theater system, ear buds, in-ear monitors, iPhone speakers, and iPad speakers.

I do the same--but I think I'll get Sonarworks.

Wonder how much my car speaker system has been affecting my mix