hey! some suggestions, nice one! first off, sorry for the lack of info (and bitching about caps lock!).....pretty much all of my beats come out of my akai s30000 which is hooked into a studiomaster p7 which is in turn fed into a servo 170 amp. i use sample cd's as the source for my drum sounds....i dunno, perhaps my monitors are out of phase, i'll check them in a bit. i do tend to have a hard time when it comes to recording stuff though - i can get something sounding pretty good on this system, but when i record it and stick it through my hi-fi, car, etc it sounds terrible!! i understand that things are supposed to sound 'flat' on these monitors, but i find it amazingly off-putting when i listen to what i've just spent ages on and it's sounds like a bag of shit......i am starting to use audio in cubase vst more and more (mainly due to the lethal addictivity of plug ins), but am then sat here thinking 'well if that's not eq'd right, it's ponitless recording it.'
maybe i need to use a different amp and monitors, i used to use some big dodgy memorex speakers and a hi-fi amp, and the stuff i DAT'ed then sounds superior to what i'm achieveing now! i've even tried lugging my hi-fi in here for a more inspiring sound and even when it sounds ace through it, it will still sound bad in my car.....whereas EVERY FRIGGING CD I LISTEN TO sounds good on ANYTHING!!!!! NNNNOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
i've just realised i should be in the mixing forum!!!! haha!!!! that kick is just part of the problem......
right, i'll get off now as you're all probably comatosed.......so, any more suggestions are appreciated! i just want my monitoring set-up to represent what i am actually recording!!!! any tips on eq'ing different sounds would be cool aswell......
P.S. do you reckon some posh headphones might help? i've got a cheap shit pair, but surprise surprise, they sound different again to everything else!! ahhhh....you really do have to laugh!!!
cheers lads (and lasses), hope to hear from you soon! yours, maff.