Jury-Rigging My Monitor Setup

[stetto]

The nearfields I use right now are 15 year old Peavey HK-8's (yeah, I know, but they don't sound lousy, just a little too "colorful" to give me a true mix)...The HK-8's have unbalanced RCA jacks for inputs (2 per cab), and are bi-amped (10 watts hi, 40 watts low).

I have a Yamaha 50 watt powered sub I'd like to try to use, but am not sure whether I should or even can. The monitors do not have a sub out, only the two RCA inputs per cab. The Yamaha has a high freq cut, so I think it would operate with a straight monitor signal...

I can't seem to find any info on how to go about this, does anyone here have a link to a site that can explain wiring a 3-way monitor system?

Thanks, and yes, new monitors are on the list, but it will be a year or two...

Eric

 

[stetto]

OK, let me rephrase the question.

I'm lined out on wiring up a sub into my setup, though it's going to involve moving a bunch of stuff around and rerouting wiring and shaving my palms...

So the query is; Am I wasting my time doing this or will it help my mixes? The problem with the HK-8's is that they don't represent a true image of the low end, and my mixes, which sound pretty good through the monitors, are boomy as hell and undefined in the lower frequencies on the stereo in the living room or the truck. My sensibilities tell me that a sub is in order, am I wrong?

Thanks for your time

Eric

 

[notbradsohner]

what does your room look like. Have you acousticaly treated it. Often subs will do more harm than good if the room is not properly treated.

 

[stetto]

notbrad, you don't wanna know what my room looks like...My setup is in the corner of an open cellar/basement/tornado shelter, 24'X24', concrete floor except where my gear is, furnace to the center-right, ceiling 6.5' (that's right, sixtandahalffeet), mostly open floor joist and VERY creaky flooring above. The walls are all block-filled and painted cinderblock. The only acoustic "treatment" is some carpet thrown down where I work and some textured ceiling panels above my workspace. This is a 100+ year old midwestern farmhouse that I don't own and can't wait to get our new one built so's I can design and build a "room" of my own...Also why I haven't invested in good nearfields yet.

This picture is as bad as I'm painting it. I know that nothing will give me a reliable reference in this chasm, but I'd like to get what I can out of it--It's what I have to work with...

...No one is allowed to flush toilets upstairs when I'm recording vox or acoustic guitar either....The pipes are 15 feet to the left...

Hope I didn't make ya regret responding...

Eric

 

[CoolCat]

Buddy Holly recorded Maybe Baby, one of his few hits in a damn roller-rink ballroom thing.....in the midwest.
it was one of my favorites of thiers....and their biggest hits/recordings. in the 50's they didn't have the big production 900 track computers, but they overdubbed...and it still works on the radio.
my son is always listening to this Ramones CD, and it is horrible recording wise...but its got the groove.... I wanna be Sedated...

the groove and fun (skills) come first, then polish the turd...
or the cellar studio. BTW........thats a Mastering Engineer Slang... "polish the turd"...
this forum cracks me up.

no flushing the toilets ...did you have signs made up?


24' x 24' is frkn HUGE! and a basement is probably the best sound proofing there is.... i grew up in the midwest where the ground was black soil instead of rock/clay here in TX.(no basements)
...


The sub will get you lower freq's. most 6" go to 70-100hz.
so the sub may get you 100 down to 30hz.

actually I think you should buy my setup so I can go get some DYnAudio5A's.

 

[stetto]

Funny thing about polishing turds---Ya just wind up with a smaller turd...

DynAudio is what I have in mind down the road as well...I plan to "bury" my studio financing in the new house mortgage...

And no, no signs made up...I simply give Mama a tenspot and send her and the livestock to Dairy Queen ...

Thanks for the input

Eric