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Advice on active monitor sepakers for home studio?
« on: January 26, 2014, 03:33:33 PM »
Hi!

I was thinking I should get some proper studio monitors for my home studio. I tried to look for threads on this subject, but couldn't find any. Does anyone have some advice?

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Re: Advice on active monitor sepakers for home studio?
« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2014, 06:31:44 PM »
There have been a few threads for monitors -both active and passive- including this one: http://taperssection.com/index.php?topic=149804.0

Also some problems reported using the search function so I suggest reading and following Brian's suggestions from this post ( http://taperssection.com/index.php?topic=165801.0 ) if you want to find more threads on the topic.

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Re: Advice on active monitor sepakers for home studio?
« Reply #2 on: January 28, 2014, 03:38:30 AM »
There have been a few threads for monitors -both active and passive- including this one: http://taperssection.com/index.php?topic=149804.0

Also some problems reported using the search function so I suggest reading and following Brian's suggestions from this post ( http://taperssection.com/index.php?topic=165801.0 ) if you want to find more threads on the topic.

Thank you  :)
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Re: Advice on active monitor sepakers for home studio?
« Reply #3 on: March 19, 2014, 08:11:32 AM »
I ended up getting a pair of KRK VXT6, so far they seem like a very good choice...  :D
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Re: Advice on active monitor sepakers for home studio?
« Reply #4 on: March 19, 2014, 11:24:41 AM »
Saw this thread too late, but for future reference, one of the challenges with external speakers is that the acoustics of the room in which you're listening can throw your EQ settings off.  If you EQ to the room you're listening in, your recording may not sound right when you playback on another system in another space. 

If your mixes are consistently off on other playback systems, you may end up having to do acoustical measurements of your space (google Room Equalization Wizard) and try to tune it with acoustical treatment.

Mixing on a very good set of headphones has its own set of challenges, but can be an easier path in the long run if you can master the method. 

Seems to be no end to it all. 

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Re: Advice on active monitor sepakers for home studio?
« Reply #5 on: March 19, 2014, 11:41:26 AM »
Mixing on a very good set of headphones has its own set of challenges, but can be an easier path in the long run if you can master the method. 

I do not disagree with this.

Two caveats you will need to address:
1) Finding neutral headphones that have a similar frequency response of monitors (this eliminates like 95% of excellent headphones IME). Most headphones are anemic or at least shy compared to monitors under 150hz, but some will exhibit a better response under 50hz (until you use #2 below and hear it canceled out in the fold down).
2) Pick up a good VST of a room emulator and learn how to tune it to mimic a studio setup. The easiest way I found was to visit a studio for an hour and listen to some material on their monitors, then tweak the settings in my plugin to get the settings right.

That gets you 3/4ths of the way there, and the rest is just learning where deficiencies are in your setup as they compare to other monitor setups and learning how to compensate for them without damaging your end result. That took me maybe 50-75 hours of mixing and reviewing to get passably good at.
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Re: Advice on active monitor sepakers for home studio?
« Reply #6 on: March 19, 2014, 02:27:30 PM »
I picked up a pair of Alesis M1 MKII active monitors and have really enjoyed them.  They are really cheap on Amazon now compared to what I originally picked them up for.  Won't break the bank and I think they do a really good job. 

http://alesis.com/m1activemkii
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