how can i be sure it wasn't always like this? consider the following scenario:

1) i mixed everything in the condition in it's in now.
2) everything broke, creating messy renders.
3) i'm now trying to recreate messy renders in a normalized environment.

what i was trying to do was figure out which was the cleanest representation. but it was assuming the system was stable to start with.

if i can establish that it was always doing this and i just never noticed, then i can get back to what i was doing.

i think the way to do that is to rebuild the system as it was and then try and build some old files from scratch. i'll have to do a few experiments regarding the eqs.

it seems that eqs in the mid range null. the interference is happening when i modify the eq on the bottom end. but, because it then stabilizes...

it's one thing to point to this ideal. but, if i managed to accidentally get to that point briefly, and then rejected it as busted, then i'm trying to construct a utopia.

so, that gives me another day of stuff to do, anyways, before i start freaking out. and will at least allow me to better understand the breadth of the issue.

if it was always like this - except for a few weeks when it seemed like things were broken - then i'll just have to accept it.

but, if i can demonstrate that something has changed then i'll have to start looking at replacing things.