Studio Monitors
Studio Monitors Posted on: 31.12.2010 by Aracely Mcalvey Do you guys use studio monitors when you're producing? I know I probably should, but my room doesn't have any acoustic treatment to it, and I'm just not used to hearing a colorless signal. Any time I've ever been in any other studio, the final mix doesn't sound half as good as the way it did on the studio monitors in the booth, which, I suppose, had led me to simply not trust them, as if they create a misleading sound.A significant part of me believes that it just makes more sense to mix on what you'd be listening to the track on. I believe Rik Ocasek of The Cars fame and fortune had a similar mindset...and I've always dug their stuff. I just try to keep multiple audio sources around to test it out; stereo speaker, computer speakers, headphones, earbuds, my car CD player is just a few steps past the front door. I typically mix on my 2.1 computer speakers though. What school of though do you belong to, when it comes to studio monitors? I'm new to the board, btw. My new years resolution is to learn to DJ. TOTAL noob coming into it, but I've been making beats for a while now. I love it all; dubstep, garage, hip hop, chiptune, you name it. I feel like it's time to take the next step, and start performing my stuff. | |
| Aracely Mcalvey 31.12.2010 | Do you guys use studio monitors when you're producing? I know I probably should, but my room doesn't have any acoustic treatment to it, and I'm just not used to hearing a colorless signal. Any time I've ever been in any other studio, the final mix doesn't sound half as good as the way it did on the studio monitors in the booth, which, I suppose, had led me to simply not trust them, as if they create a misleading sound. A significant part of me believes that it just makes more sense to mix on what you'd be listening to the track on. I believe Rik Ocasek of The Cars fame and fortune had a similar mindset...and I've always dug their stuff. I just try to keep multiple audio sources around to test it out; stereo speaker, computer speakers, headphones, earbuds, my car CD player is just a few steps past the front door. I typically mix on my 2.1 computer speakers though. What school of though do you belong to, when it comes to studio monitors? I'm new to the board, btw. My new years resolution is to learn to DJ. TOTAL noob coming into it, but I've been making beats for a while now. I love it all; dubstep, garage, hip hop, chiptune, you name it. I feel like it's time to take the next step, and start performing my stuff. |
| Aracely Mcalvey 02.01.2011 | I've got a pair of AKG K44 phones. I dunno if those would be sufficient for mixing, or not. Any idea? |
| Vernon Vanderberg 02.01.2011 | we had a similar discussion in my music class last quarter. A few sound engineers have started to use apple ipod in ear head phones to mix down some projects. their reasoning was that 98% of their audience was going to experience the audio on similarly crappy gear
. while i agree that using multiple playback sources to monitor your audio is important, at the end of the day I still use my JBL's as my crutch. pretty fair and unflattering sound. ive since noticed that it much easier to get the frequency adjustments faster, and the first time around using em. I would at least have the essential mix down done on some decent monitors or studio headphones. then taking that relatively uncolored mix to your other consumer audio sources and see where adjustments need to made. just $0.02 |
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