This Thursday in the studio was used as a final check up and listen through on my Ableton session for my senior recital, as it was happening that coming Saturday (the 29th). I had done a great deal of preparation for the recital but it was nice to use the space and time to myself in a productive environment to sit and do some last minute tweaking. I plugged my computer into the patch bay so that I could work on the monitors in the studio, and while I have expressed some dissatisfaction with my mixing results in this space, it was nice to listen on a different system that wasn’t tweaked to my own preferences. I feel that my mixes really improve after moving them onto various systems, speakers, and headphones, taking every result into account. Something I really admire in professional engineers is the ability to have a mix translate well from a $10,000 studio monitoring system to laptop speakers and everything in between. If there’s a skill I feel I’m lacking in mixing, it’s this one. Anyways, I listened through each track, making subtle changes as it was helpful to hear my session through a subwoofer. Something I was concerned about was that I had not rehearsed the live set with a sub previously, and I was afraid of how the mix might translate in that space. I always felt that the lower end sounded a little muddy, and I wanted to avoid that as much as possible. In the end I think the mix turned out fairly good, not perfect, but good.