EVENT 20/20bas

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okay... it'll be about 4 months until i can afford these baby's but i've been reading about them, and they look like they fit my wants (anything but my absolute zero's!)


So, instead of asking "Which one is best... blah blah blah", i'm going to ask the question in a different way....

Give me reasons why i shouldn't get the event 20/20bas!!! (except that they cost a bit!)



rochey
 
Don't know those monitors, all I know about monitors is that the PMC AML1s are fantastic (but a thad expensive). I heared them in the studio which we recorded in! WOW!

I never heared the Absolute Zero's, can you tell me what you think is wrong with them?

EZP
 
Tannoy Reveals are £100 cheaper in the UK and easier to find. Also, someone on this site said he found them more "honest". But there's a new post today from someone who uses both Reveals and Event 20/20s and prefers the 20/20s.
 
yup, i read that thread too.

It really looks like the 20/20bas is the way forward... ideally, my whole studio would be mackie, but, ££££ isn't easy to come by, so, event 20/20's look like the way forward.
:p

the only 2 bad points i have are:

the trim controls aren't notched, so you have to visually 'guess' if they are matched.

They can be a little bass heavy.



The reveals do look like good speakers, but i need something with a solid bottom end, the tonnoys from what i've read and seen, are very balanced speakers, but the bottom end is a little weak in comparison.

d
 
My price comparison was for the passives, so not relevant - soz
 
"They can be a little bass heavy?"

Not on my Event 20/20bas!

Here's two songs that were mixed on my 20/20's....
(...listen to "Doin' Nothin" and "Angel Child")

http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/248/the_mac_brothers.html

These songs sounded "just right" when I mixed them in my studio... not too bassy at all.
But alas, listen to that thumpin' low end you hear as a final result.

Buck
 
You are right, Buck. Even for me (a bass head if there ever was one) that mix does lean pretty heavilly on the low end. To your credit it's still pretty crisp though.

-Shaz
 
have spare parts handy!

I like my Event 20/20 bas, but today, when I had a pro come over to run Pink Noise through them, I learned a fact of studio life: After getting a pretty flat line with the pink noise, he played a test CD through them, with tones in various octaves, etc....and the tweeters blew! It's not like we were running them at high volume either. In reality, we discovered that only the diaphragm needed replacement, but you can't get individual parts from Event, so now I have a new pair of HF drivers on the way.
Tweeters blow, and once they do, the studio is down unless you have alternate monitors, or spare parts.
 
bass emphasis

Buck, I was having a problem with too much bass when playing songs back on a system other than the studio monitors. My pro friend found via his spectrum analyzer that there was a big hump at 40K, and we adjusted accordingly on the 1/3 octave EQ. There were other areas also out of whack, as our project studio is just the bass players' basement. This was the same for both L & R channels. You may find that you need to compensate for a different part of the spectrum.
 
Rochey

You can only take so much advice on monitors. Then you have to go out and listen to a few different ones yourself with your own music, and if possible in your own environment.
Just because one model sounds bassy to one person in their room, doesn't mean it will sound the same to you in yours.
What ever you end up with you'll still have to "learn" to mix on them. Room accoustics plays such a big part that you'll never get a truely flat response from any brand. (Unless you've got a professionally designed and built control room with perfect accoustics:D )
Good luck in your search
Mark
 
my 20/20bas are bass heavy, but you have to learn any speaker you use. As a professional could mix on a set of bookshelf speakers there would be more intracacies to learn. sometimes too many to ever learn. what i'm saying is that all speakers have their bumps, humps, lows, and plateaus. This is why you have to listen to pro recordings on them and learn how they sound and match that up with your recordings.
 
thanks guys, i was really starting to get pissed off with all these choices.

One minute i wanted mackies, the next reveals, the next the event 20/20bas

There's one thing i've learnt from reading everyones post. The sub £1000 monitors are all the same - they all have bumps and troughs in the frequency response. The question is, where they have it!

So, I think, within the next few months, i'll take my time to listen to as many monitors as i can, have a play with each of them, and see which one's a can learn to live with.

After all, any purchase i make will be with me for a LONG time...

Thanks guys.

d
 
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