Great Advice for your Mixing Environment

Actually film post folks can get very obsessed with room calibration especially if your mixing since film is mixed by ear in a calibrated room. TV and broadcast is often mixed to specifications so room calibration is a little less critical.
Anyway to add to the good info above I've included a link to the DUC post section with a very lengthy sticky on room calibration for post.
http://duc.digidesign.com/showflat....age=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=93&fpart=1#529464
 
Those are excellent resources as well.

In the home-studio world, it's almost a cliche these days - the guys who dump thousands on gear but don't spend a dime on their mixing room.

I still can't believe how much my mix sound improved with a $30 pair of Auralex speaker decouplers... the mud is all gone....
 
THe big trick is to try and get some accuracy. Most speakers and boxes etc. are about getting you a "better" sound. That's fine for listening to, but it's terrible for mixing. You want to hear the ugly stuff so you can fix it. Of course you don't want to hear the ugly stuff that isn't there either. That's where you have to be careful about HOW you get the mud out. The decouplers are a good choice going to the showroom and picking the speakers that sound best is probably not such a good choice.

I think a lot of the crap that comes from picture editors is because of there sound setup. I went to one editor/ directors place and the right speaker was behind the monitor and the left was on the floor, and the computer was sitting on the desk about where the right speaker should have been. She had a hard time understanding why her levels didn't translate and where all the noise came from (when we were in my studio) because she had never heard it on her system...
 
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