How to turn your old stereo speakers into the best sounding monitors you ever heard!

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I think it was the title of the post that got me more than the content.I have spent the last couple of evenings helping some good friends listen and mix their project.We were working in a well designed and built control room with a pair of genelec 1031a monitors.I don't know if any of you have had the pleasure of working with these,but they were really kicking my ass!

If I thought I could use an eq trick to make an old pair of stereo speakers sound that accurate,I would be the first to jump at it.But it ain't gonna happen.I have a set of dahlquist speakers that are fabulous stereo speakers,and I spent a lot of hours with an rta and a lab mic trying to make monitors out of them.I thought I had it nailed several times,only to find out in the end I was trying to turn a Corvette into a Ford pickup truck.

Good Luck
 
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Johnrg said:

alot of big ego's here with f-all to back them up.

stick to the planet

newbie J
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Another wannabe talking out of his ass again..........

wanker... :rolleyes:
 
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Blue Bear Sound said:
Another wannabe talking out of his ass again..........

wanker... :rolleyes:
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Another fine post contributing greatly to this discussion. Wannabe? Do you really think it's the coolest thing in the world to be a rude ego in this club of internal admiration? Well, let me tell you - it's not. To outsiders you are just so pathetic...

/Anders
 
As you can see by the above replys from a few of these guys they are award winning musicians with award winning productions, huge album credits, looked up to by the industry etc etc and are never wrong about anything to do with recording or music.
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Euhm... I don't care about awards. But from where I am, and certainly from where you guys are with your roland workstations and stereo speakers, you should look up to a guy succesfully running a projectstudio.

And Bruce may seem pathetic to outsiders... So what impression do you think Johnrg just made? Owning a VS workstation is not a reference, believe me. (And I got one myself.) And certainly not against the massive amount of info bruce has already posted on this board, and the fact that he is running a real studio instead of 4 mics and a workstation.

Normally I don't stand up for anyone here. But with the stupid post that Johnrg made, I think it's quit acceptable for bruce to answer back. Oh, and I don't admire bruce. I'd like to have his gear too, and he probably makes better recordings than I do with it, but I don't really care. I got other goals in life. And pickfighting here isn't one of them. :rolleyes:

I'm still cool with y'all.
 
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Boray said:
Do you really think it's the coolest thing in the world to be a rude ego in this club of internal admiration?
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Again... my favorite Harvey quote is so appropriate here..........

"Which would you choose; someone with a 50/50 smattering of knowledge and very polite,or 97% accuracy and blunt?"

And so far, between Boray and this Johnrg wanker, you'd both have a lot to learn to even come close to the "50/50 smattering of knowledge!"

:rolleyes:
 
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Blue Bear Sound said:
And so far, between Boray and this Johnrg wanker, you'd both have a lot to learn to even come close to the "50/50 smattering of knowledge!"

:rolleyes:
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And how do you know? You don't know me, and I don't know you... All I know about you is that you are rude. All you know about me is that I have a different oppinion than you regarding MY OWN speakers! Hardly something to get rude about...

/Anders
 
Roel said:

Euhm... I don't care about awards. But from where I am, and certainly from where you guys are with your roland workstations and stereo speakers, you should look up to a guy succesfully running a projectstudio.
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The way to success can't be by beeing rude - not in the long run. Okay, it's okay to be a little upset and say something rude once in a while, but my impression of Blue Bear so far is just a big "besserwisser"... That could be wrong of course, but that's my impression so far... I hope his customers don't get the same impression...

My main point is that it's only the regulars here that seems to be allowed to come with critisism here. If an outsider says something like that, he's just an idiot comming here. Screw him!

Btw, Isn't this particular forum a Roland VS one? That was my impression anyway...

/Anders
 
I hate threads like this

I hate everything about this thread.

I hate the subject and I hate the implication.

I hate the hostile overall feel.

I also hate Monty:p ;)

Carl
 
Actually...I don't hate [I]everything[/I] about this thread.

I like the Leslie simulator idea.

Perhaps you could use wireless speakers?

Mayhap you could send the signal through an elaborate bearings array surrounding the spindle?

I've got it, remove the spindle and chop it up into four lengths. Glue it back together with a rubber grommet between the peices (for insulation).

Now, from above suspend some stiff (yet flexible) copper wire or sheet strips. Get a firm contact to each segment with one of the copper elements.

Now connect the terminals from the speakers with some more of the same type of copper filiments, and make sure that each makes firm contact with a single section of the spindle.

If the contact is firm enough it should conduct electricity, now you can hook up the overhead connections to an amp and you're all set.

:D

Carl
 
monty said:
What...? I didn't do anything...why's everybody always pickin' on me? :D
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Deleting posts only shows what a coward and childish person you are...

Well, I hope this to be my last post here ever.... Thanks everyone for making me feel so welcome!

/Anders
 
sniff, sniff. Thought I smelled some smoke.

I dont know when being polite became a prerequisite to knowledge or success. The best thing about the internet is access to information. The worst thing about the internet is that it's hard to seperate the bull shit from the real thing.

Booray your revolutionary speaker EQ system pretty much falls into the bull shit category. If you dont like being called on stuff you should do a little more research before you post your revolutionary theories with a provacative title.

We get posts like yours every week and if we let people come in here and post whatever they wanted as gospel we would have a bunch of homewreckers using behringer mics through tri-phazors and monitoring on EQ'd home speakers. Everyone would hear them clearly because they would have just had their ears candled.

It's probably true that Quincy Jones and Mutt Lange are not regulars here but there are people here who do this stuff for a living and have some pretty respectable credits. I have worked on many major projects like Mars Attacks!, Jerry Maquire, Super Bowl, Lollapalooza tour, Beastie Boys, Smashing Pumpkins, Lisa Loeb, and Debbie Harry to name a few.

I dont know everything but I call 'em as I see 'em.
 
I figured it out Carl.I just ran the speaker wires to a hook in the ceiling,let them wind up like a rubber band in one of those old toy airplanes and rigged a pedal that will drop the turntable from underneath when i step on it.That way,I have slow speed in one direction when they are sitting on the turntable and they spin real fast in the other direction when the turntable drops away
:D :D :D :D

The thing that gets me is how much it makes my $99.00 casio sound like a real b-3. At least that's what it sounds like on my flat eq'd stereo speakers,and surely they couldn't be wrong,could they?
:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
 
So am I to understand that you guys would rather anyone post whatever bullshit they want even if it is known to be false?
 
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