My mix on cubase sounds fine on my DT 990 Pros but sound muffled and low quality on my KRK's

Anyone got any ideas as to why?

 

do i even dare reply?

 

how can you judge a mix that you can't hear?

 

Headphones do not represent the room.
In other words, if your room in which the monitors are located is unfavorable, even the best monitors will sound bad.

Optimize the space:
https://ehomerecordingstudio.com/studio-monitor-positioning/
https://www.izotope.com/en/learn/home-recording-studio-hacks-to-improve-listening.html

 

first of all, KRK's suck!

second of all, refer to first of all.

 

You may want to share your mix so we could give better advice.

 

krk systems audio tools app 2

 

Ohhhh! Guessing games!

 

what krks?

at least the earlier entrance ones were a bit muffled, fat loose bass and lack strength/clarity in the middle range.
so you are comparing/monitoring with two totally different quality sources. your DTs are the one I would trust to be more in the ballpark of "reality".

also, I agree you should share the material if possible because these questions are classic for musicians just starting to mix so there could be lots of other "problems" that don't appear to be obvious to you right now, im speculating though. cheers

 

Last edited: Jul 30, 2021

https://audiosex.pro/threads/room-acoustic-thread-how-to-treat-your-room.50138/

 

did you play any reference tracks on your headphone?
how do they sound on the krk's?

 

Boosted low end with no low cut with EQ? Did you add some sub/low frequency enchancer? What type of music we are talking about?

 

I think..

1) because beyerdynamics headphones are known to have crazy high-end response and you probably balanced it all good in the mix but in a perfect flat EQ response world, you probably overdone the high end taming.

2) you switched to monitors suddenly from the headphones without giving your ears some rest to balance everything back from the beyerdynamics headphones (that have over exaggerated high-end), of course EVERYTHING will sound muffled.

Suggestion : Sonarworks Reference works well for me with my DT770. I agree with above statement, while it is advisable to have one shitty monitors set for monitoring job (and a good pair of course), I never liked KRK for either of them.