Unless your listening room has unusual dampening or echoing, I recommend setting the monitor tone settings flat. First listen to commercial recordings to see how they sound.

Try making some mixes and then compare them to how commercial recordings sound on other devices. But you’ve definitely made the right decision to mix on monitors and start relying on them once you know their sound. I only use headphones to check for extreme stereo separation and possible phase effects that could cancel the sound (such as two wrongly-placed mics on a guitar recording out-of-phase signals).


BIAB 2025 Win Audiophile. Software: Studio One 7 Pro, Swam horns, Acoustica-7, Notion 6, Song Master Pro, Win 11 Home. Hardware: Intel i9, 32 Gb; Roland Integra-7, Presonus 192 & Faderport 8, Royer 121, Adam Sub8 & Neumann 120 monitors.