In the “Workspace Volume” you’ll learn how to treat and tune your workspace easily and effortlessly so your mixes translate in any environment. You’ll also learn to position your stereo and surround speakers to the Dolby standard for optimum listening as well as how to avoid the most frequent mistakes most filmmakers make when doing mixes and listening themselves.
In this chapter, Mark begins the process of showing us the issues involved with mixing in bad workspaces, how to fix bad workspaces, the kinds of speakers and headphones to mix on, and how to fix the basic issues of most workspaces.
| Chapter Contents | Run Time |
| Introduction | 00:00:05 |
| Terms | 00:00:55 |
| Reflections | 00:06:30 |
| Pink Vs. White Noise | 00:08:22 |
| What Speakers To Buy | 00:10:07 |
| What Headphones to Buy | 00:14:29 |
| The Nature of Highs and Lows | 00:17:25 |
| Does Room Treatment Matter? | 00:23:30 |
| Killing the Sound of the Room | 00:25:49 |
| Primary, Secondary, Tertiary Reflections | 00:27:43 |
| Primary Reflection Demonstration | 00:29:05 |
| The Easy Primary Reflection Fix | 00:30:57 |
| Types of Speakers | 00:35:57 |
| Single Drivers | 00:38:32 |
| TV Drivers | 00:41:18 |
| Laptop Drivers | 00:42:27 |
| Dual Drivers | 00:44:44 |
| Tri Drivers | 00:48:07 |
| Wrap Up | 00:53:40 |
In this chapter, we delve deeply into room tuning, the kinds of equipment we need to buy – and in what order – speaker placement, person placement and how to cheat the whole process!
| Chapter Contents | Run Time |
| Introduction | 00:00:04 |
| Where to Position Yourself & Your Speakers | 00:00:51 |
| Speaker Placement Protocol | 00:06:51 |
| Why do Speakers Have to be Equadistant? | 00:18:54 |
| Master Output Delays – to Solve Distance Issues | 00:22:24 |
| Dealing With Parallel Walls | 00:22:59 |
| Tuning Your Room – The Levels | 00:26:12 |
| Tuning Your Room – Knowing Your Delivery | 00:32:02 |
| Speaker Stands | 00:33:25 |
| Speaker Wattage/Power Considerations | 00:40:25 |
| Finding and Auditioning Speakers | 00:44:02 |
| Tuning Your Room – The DIY Cheat | 00:48:39 |
| What Gear to Buy First | 01:08:37 |
| Wrap Up | 01:18:15 |
