Mainfields are designed to have a flat, full range response. nearfields were first designed to, as the ns10 thing, have some of the charicteristics of hi-fi speakers (rolled off bass?). check out the first nearfields by aurotone!
have you seen the topaz? in the pictures they look quite big but there tiny. Haven't used a mackie, but the ghost is a great console, If you have the space and the cash
is it a 3-band? never used one but all the other tc stuff i have used is good. Let me know if there any good cos i've been after a multi-band comp for a while.
i have the reveal blues (actives), they sound very nice in the studio but i've got mixes wrong on them before. I,ve also heard moniters with a clearer top end, but at 2or three times the price!
true 'Pro' equipment runs about 10-20x times the cost of 'prosumer' gear. So the pro version of a $2000 mackie is a $200,000 API.
isn't that $20,000-$40,000???
I recorded some stuff in a little project studio that had a zoom and
an alesis midi-verb 4. The zoom had pretty crappy reverbs in comparison but for effects it rocked. I think it has really cheap converters and it sounded really 'analogue'
Has A/B compared Akg c414's (ULS) and Neumann km 184's as stereo pairs ( need decent drum over heads). I've used them both, but the neumanns were a while ago in a studio with pretty shitty acoustics and the AKG's were fairly recently in a studio with really nice acoustics so i'm not in a...