This is entirely virgin territory for me; I'm not event sure what questions I should be asking or what parameters about my current set up matter.
Peanut gallery, go!

I just looked at the specs on these and they seem to be awesome! I'd really like to mix with them or just hear them. They sound/read too good to be true for the price. The independent center mounted tweeter design really is the best coaxial speaker design for mixing "they say". A studio I checked out years ago bragged about his Tannoy monitors and post production speakers. His monitors were the dual coil center mounted tweeter design that cost thousands, apparently. We didn't record there because he was too expensive. But I was impressed with his studio.ken wrote:I've been reading a lot of good things about the Equator D5 Monitor, which cost $299 for the pair.
http://www.equatoraudio.com
I suggest you save another $20 for the monitor pads as well.
Ken
I've heard that book shelves make excellent diffusers since the random depth of the books help to break up the sound waves. They seem too dense to offer any dampening.nyjm wrote:I've found that walls full of books make for really good sound dampeners.
Sure, if it's all Nietzsche and shit, but if you use blank books or maybe Steven King...ken wrote:I've heard that book shelves make excellent diffusers since the random depth of the books help to break up the sound waves. They seem too dense to offer any dampening.nyjm wrote:I've found that walls full of books make for really good sound dampeners.
Ken
[Reproducing what I've read. I haven't tested these things myself. I don't have any expensive speakers to compare to.] In that price range, forget about bass. Decent bass in near-field monitors is much more expensive, as in at least twice as much, per speaker. What you get in those cheaper ones is bass-reflex enclosures that do give you bass, but it drops off much more strongly at the low end than would be useful to monitor with (you'll get the impression that the bass is all perfect but you'll be missing low-end mud that will be audible even on an cheapish stereo), and it won't represent the bass very accurately, either. You might actually be better off randomly guessing what the bass part of your track sounds like than rely on that kind of bass response.nyjm wrote:Mostly, I want something to help with the mixing process. Default computer speakers are crap (tinny and no bass response to speak of) and my old stand-by headphones are 1) headphones, 2) a little bass-rich and 3) slowly disintegrating.
It's also a matter of learning with what you have. Monitors aren't going to make you good at anything, but they can facilitate the process of becoming more intuitive about what works and what doesn't.jast wrote:That said, I guess you can monitor the low frequencies with your headphones and everything else with monitors, perhaps high-passed. Not ideal, but then again we're all not made out of money, right?
I stand corrected. I have awesome walls full of sound diffusers. I haven't really studied how they affect the way sound travels to the rest of the house.ken wrote:I've heard that book shelves make excellent diffusers since the random depth of the books help to break up the sound waves. They seem too dense to offer any dampening.nyjm wrote:I've found that walls full of books make for really good sound dampeners.
Ken
This is something I have mentioned before (something generally disagreed with, which is not surprising since I have no idea what I am talking about) - but since they are sold in singles - why not just buy one?nyjm wrote:*googles*
Dammit, why the hell are these things sold as a single speaker by default? It's rather deceptive.
Allow me to rephrase: I'd prefer $200 - 300 for a pair.
This is interesting because I've thought about this before for some of the reasons mentioned in the article. Paco told me once that he uses a "Tivoli" single speaker system to listen to his final production and other music as well.Caravan Ray wrote:But mixing in mono seems to have advantages:
http://www.musicsoftwaretraining.com/bl ... g-in-mono/
So, do I understand this right: one would/could use the Big Room to effectively perform in the round? Like, surrounding the mixing board? Those pictures are confusing; I swear some of them are not of the same space... Really cool concept for a studio, but I'm still not doing that to my house.roymond wrote:Noah, I think nothing short of a farm in Wiltshire is what you need to emulate.
Wow!!ken wrote:I've heard that book shelves make excellent diffusers since the random depth of the books help to break up the sound waves. They seem too dense to offer any dampening.nyjm wrote:I've found that walls full of books make for really good sound dampeners.
Ken