anyone here with mackie hr824's?

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i have my speakers like 6ft apart facing straight out and i'm about 4ft. infront of them.

can someone tell me the proper settings to have on the back of the speakers to accomadate this.

the little studio diagram in the back shows the speakers slanted inwards, should i slant mine?

i can set my speakers about 3 more feet apart but i would still be about 4ft. back, will that be better?

i have a regular wall made out of sheetrock, should i put a blanket behind the monitors?


thank you.
 
how far are they from the wall behind them ?

one common practice is to place them as far apart as they are from you

I leave mine set to " normal" even tho theres a wall only 2 or so feet behind em. Sometimes Ill turn the treble thing to -2, so when treble deaf people take the cd out it sounds bright as all hell
 
how far are they from the wall behind them ?

they are a few inches. i just got em today, plus these are the first monitors i've ever owned as well as attempted to mix with.
 
To set them up 'properly' for near-field monitoring, you should have them 4' apart if you're going to be 4' away. Since you have them near a wall, they should be set for half space, and they should angle toward you, not be facing straight out. These are NOT bookshelf speakers for everyone in the room to hear, they are near-field monitors for critical listening. Give this set-up a try, and run some CDs you're really familiar with through them. You may be surprised at what you hear.

Scott
 
thanx

i'll get right to it tomorrow, got to get some zzz. i'll give it a try. i really apreciate the advice that i'm getting from everyone.
 
Hi,
I built some stands for mine and moved my desk far away from the wall. My speakers are 6-10" from a wall covered in 2" foam near the corner bass traps. They are about 6' from each other and I am about 3 feet back. In addition, I did not toe in my speakers. I know this sounds odd but, after tuning the low end down a little bit and with them where they are and I in my place, the sweetspot is huge and the field is "deep and wide, deep and wide"....sorry. It also seems very flat (for my room) and mixes translated instantly. After building my stands, the speakers are at ear level, maybe a hair higher and I do have them tilted down a bit with the foam monitor pads.

2 cents...
 
Well, RS, it just goes to prove that sometimes you can still get good results even while breaking every rule in the book.

If your mastering engineer has no complaints about your mixes, then who are we to argue?
 
and about the slanted thingy...

when you are in your 'mixing position' the speakers should be facing you so that you can't see the tops, sides, of bottoms of the monitors...
 
Well... sorry, I took another good look at my setup last night. My monitors are about equidistant from each other and myself when I sit up in my chair which is where I DO listen from. I guess the rule that I am breaking, if you want to call it that, is that my monitors are slightly toed out. I happen to like 'em that way because if they are hitting me in the face/ear, I tend to mix to dark. Having them toed out, pointing perpendicular to the wall, works for me.
 
of course your room does play a huge role in the positioning as well :)
 
My speakers are 6-10" from a wall covered in 2" foam near the corner bass traps

what is a way to treat the wall behind my speakers, via home depot or even every day house hold items?
 
i forget where

somewhere on this forum they mentioned sheetrock being very useful. i'm not sure if it was for this particular application. i think it was for sound deadening.
 
what levels do most of you guys mix at

i know that it depends on the environment but i'm just curious about some of the levels people mix at with these monitors. if you can include the size of your room plus monitor setup that would also help. thanx
 
Sheetrock won't help your sound. You need to at least get a roominator kit with some 2" foam for the wall and bass traps in the corners. The foam will add depth and detail and the traps will keep your low mids more accurate.
 
okay

if i don't have my room treated could i mix say about 10 5sec bass tracks, document my work, play it on different sources and save the best bass settings to somewhat guide me in my other mixes. i know that it will vary, but those references and me monitoring the frequency analyzer in wavelabs 4.0 i should be able to accomplish the mission right? i know that i'll have to work harder than i would have to with a treated room.
 
another question

will the 24bit sound card produce better midi than the 16bit?
 
Re: another question

jugalo180 said:
will the 24bit sound card produce better midi than the 16bit?
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I think you seriously are confusing the matters here. MIDI is not audio. Most dedicated audio cards don't have any MIDI capabilities whatsoever. What cards are you talking about, BTW (seeing as you say "_the_ card")?
 
to oysterman

i have the lynx one. now that i think about it, it goes back to what someone told me earlier. the program i'm mixing and rendering in controlls that. i just noticed that i posted that question in the wrong forum. i had more than one window open. i guess i asked the question in the wrong one. second time this has happened to me. sorry.
 
settings

i know they vary, but if anyone can tell me what their volume(input sensitivity knob) is normally set to? what your low and high cut frequency knob is set to? why? thank you. i'm trying to figure out if i can mix at a reasonable level with the monitors without disturbing the rest of the house.
 
input: all the way up, that way i have full control of level from my mixer

other settings: all depends on your room, if you have a sub or not, if your mixes translate bright or dull, etc
 
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