miroslav
Cosmic Cowboy
I'm just saying I'm surprised to hear/read how many (famous) engineers actually use them a majority of the time.
I don't deny that or am I surprised by that...but it's to easy to read about a few name engineers doing it, and someone gets the impression that many others are doing it that way too.
Look...worst case...there are as many using high grade monitors as there may be using crappy shit speakers.
AFA "impressing clients"...IMO, that's often referring to the HUGE, large field, wall/soffit mounted studio monitors...because they can fill out the biggest control rooms and provide that in-the-gut feeling for the low-end that impresses people.
The high-end near/mid field monitors that are on the meter bridge are probably used moire for mixing than the large wall mounted stuff...but hey, there are engineers who actually prefer to mix on the huge monitors, at loud levels...etc..etc.
So the take away is that I don't really see any major movement toward mixing on the crappiest speakers you can find...even there are a bunch name engineers doing that.
IMO...don't believe everything you read about what some engineers do.
Many of those mofos go out of their way to hide or misrepresent what they REALLY do in the studio....because they like to have some personal secrets/tricks that they never disclose or where they intentionally leave out one or two details about their signal chains, etc.
It is VERY competitive at that level.
When HR had that contest and Q&A with CLA...I asked him how often he uses all the Waves plugs with his name on them instead of the racks and racks of actual hardware that the plugs were modeled after...and he didn't give me any straight answer, because he wants to sell the Waves plugs, but in the studio he's going to use what he prefers.