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Originally Posted by Becca
I guess if it had active meters, I could see what changes I was doing better besides just changing by what I'm actually hearing.
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The Voxengo site seems to be down at the moment, but you can get the free Voxengo SPAN spectrum analyzer here.
http://www.kvraudio.com/get/1023.html
Here's another one:
http://www.rogernicholsdigital.com/inspector.htm
Also, it is better to mix on speakers and then check your mixes with headphones. Even studio headphones won't be nearly as accurate as speakers because each ear is isolated from each other and there is a lot of stuff you will miss if you mix on headphones. Try this as a test:
Load any mp3/wave file into your recording program. Now using headphones, invert the polarity on either the left or right channel (but not both) in your recording program. Notice how the panning changes a little in the headphones and it sounds like it gets pulled in towards the center, but the bass and fullness of the song is still mostly there. Now try that same thing with speakers and there should be a much bigger difference. The center gets completely cancelled out, the bass and fullness are sucked out of the song, and what's left is very thin sounding.
Depending on your budget you can get some pretty decent monitors for not much money. Monitors make a huge diffirence in how your mixes come out, so this is one area you definitely want to get the best that your budget allows for.
-tkr