How high are your monitors?

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When setting at my desk my tweeters are at ear level and I am about 3 feet back.

Should they be up higher. My mixes seem to be bass heavy when played on other systems? Also I seem to get listening fatigue very quick.
 
should be ear level Im guessing and form an equalaterial triangle w/head
 
ears should be level with the top of the woofer...from what i read......

as far as mixing bass level....even with the right monitor level it might be difficult...I have to judge by exactly how much high end energy is being "sucked" out of the mix by the bass instrument. seems to work well.
 
Do you know the ideal position for monitoring with the EVENT TR-8's? How far do i have to be from the monitors? Currently, i am less than a metre away as i'm not getting much of a bass response from the monitors.
 
should be the same. what do you mean by not much bass response? as in, the bass is louder on other systems than in your mix position?
 
FALKEN said:
should be the same. what do you mean by not much bass response? as in, the bass is louder on other systems than in your mix position?
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No. i meant like i don't get much bass when monitoring or listening to the monitors. but if i move back from the sweet spot, i get a tighter bass.
 
hmm...is it the same at all volume levels? have you experimented with spacing them out horizontally? I guess it really comes down to which position is more accurate..no?
 
FALKEN said:
hmm...is it the same at all volume levels? have you experimented with spacing them out horizontally? I guess it really comes down to which position is more accurate..no?
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Well, do i need bass traps?
 
I listen to mine, from about the same distance away, as they are apart.....they are 3 feet or so apart, and I am about 3 feet away. I have mine so that I sit about in the middle of teh speaker cab.....in beteween the tweeter and the woofer.
 
I just raised mine up 5 inches higher.
What a big difference in low end. I think that may be one of the many reasons my mixes sound muddy in the low end.
 
studiomaster said:
No. i meant like i don't get much bass when monitoring or listening to the monitors. but if i move back from the sweet spot, i get a tighter bass.
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Your problem is not so much monitor height relative to your head as it is their placement relative to the room and the acoustic characteristics of the room.

See Ethan's treatements on these subjects in the Studio Building forum.

G.
 
Just out of curiousity, bass traps will solve my problem right?
 
studiomaster said:
Just out of curiousity, bass traps will solve my problem right?
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Based upon your short description it definitely sounds like you have some bass modes to iron out in your physical setup. Whether bass traps alone will solve your problem is impossible to say based upon the current inormation. There are may other factors to consider including the room dimensions, where within those dimensions your monitors are set, what the physical space is like within and near your "triangle of sound" (e.g. are you getting bad reflections off your desk?) and so on.

If you have your monitors up against a wall and/or near a room corner, and/or your set up in a small square room, etc. bass traps alone may just not be good enough.

OTOH, sometimes just a few inches difference in monitor spacing, distance and/or height can make a night and day difference too. If you move your head back a few inches and the bass response goes through the roof, maybe all you need to do is move your chair and your monitors apart those few inches...assuming that increased bass is not over-accentuated.

G.
 
if you sit too close to the monitors you're not going to hear it accurately. like in the microphone sticky on mic placement...something about the near-field and far-field, or something...
 
timboZ,

> my tweeters are at ear level <

Stop right there - you have it correct.

> My mixes seem to be bass heavy when played on other systems? <

That's a different issue, and some bass traps will fix you right up.

> Also I seem to get listening fatigue very quick. <

That too is usually a room acoustics issue. For anyone who's interested (and has high-speed Internet), I just made a video for my company's web site that explains how to set up and treat a listening room. Follow the link under my name below, and you'll find the Videos page linked in the Acoustics Info section.

--Ethan
 
Ethan, at the end of your video you said that if more people ask for it, you'll do more videos in other rooms. I give my vote for more videos. It was very informative.
 
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