Re: Best way to monitor with FCPX--what's your take

Not sure if it's instructive, but in my early career in radio - it was SOP in every recording studio I worked in to switch OFF the big full-range monitors before you finalized any radio spot and routed your fresh recording to a pair of semi-crappy Auratone cube speakers on the recording console bridge in order to hear what your work would sound like in the real world of car and crappy transistor radios.

This discussion is largely about the same thing.

Monitoring at some point as close to the listening (or viewing!) experience of your audience as possible is, IMO, always a smart thing.

That said, I've come to trust my X system enough that I don't worry nearly as much as I did back in my analog days. My monitoring may not be perfect - but the X scopes are good enough to show me that my work isn't going out so far out of accurate as to be noticeable.

Particularly since the more modern corporate brand books my clients are sending out all spec things like logo colors in RGB values - and I'm coming to believe that if I reflect those values correctly on my end, the digital realm should provide a transmitter translation that I can functionally trust.

Then it's just up to me not to "correct" finals so much whilst chasing a "look" that I screw those values up.

FWIW.

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