monitoring without monitors

[37point5]

Do you have a stereo system with a free set of inputs? If you do, just buy a cable to run out of the back of your soundcard into your stereo system, then listen to your mixes from there. You may have to hunt for the right cable, but Radio Shack will most certainly have what you're looking for.

Ryan

 

[dobro]

Having just bought a soundcard and a mixer, I don't have the money at the moment to get monitors. So, failing that, it's headphones for a while, but how? Plugging my headphone jack into a single line out on the mixer, can I listen to all the tracks I've recorded? Yes, I'm a newbie.

 

[Dragon]

Dobro, you ain't no newbie! You've been here for months!

What kind of mixer doesn't have a headphone jack, I ask you...?

 

[dobro]

LOL - yes, please forgive the temporary insanity - you're right - of course there's a headphone jack on my mixer. Welcome back, BTW. Until I get the first track recorded, however, I still proudly claim newbie status.

 

[S8-N]

Before you run out and drop $500 on monitors... I recorded my first 3 songs monitoring through the speakers that I got with my PC... Boston Acoustics... tiny satellites with a small subwoofer for around $100.
Then I got my Event 20/20's and I couldnt hear anything that really needed changing...
THings sounded better through the Events... but not much more accurate... I think a person could tune their ear to a decent set of PC speakers and go from there untill you feel comfortable dropping half a grand on monitors.
I'm not saying that my money was wasted on the Events... but the difference isn't night and day.

S8-N

 

[musicfest]

I'm also a newbie and I personally think spending hundreds on monitors isn't a really good idea for a beginner! I know I've got a lot of things to buy before monitors.

Mind me asking, what sound card and mixer did you purchase? I'm really keen to get advice about this from people (in case you all haven't noticed in my million messages on this board )

thanks

 

[dobro]

Musicfest - hi. I got a Wave 8.24 soundcard and an Alesis Studio 12-R mixer. I want to be able to record myself and others at the same time, and 8 tracks ought to do it for the kind of thing I have in mind.

 

[hongteck]

Hi, I'm a newbie too (ya, Dragon!)

I used to have a (only one) cheap monitor and a headphone for mixing in my home studio but then I just went to someone's studio to buy a pair of Alesis Point 7 and Alesis RA-100 amplifier for around USD 200. Well, why did I do it ? Cos they are cheap but more importantly, cos I figure that the monitors are about the only thing that can be heared in the studio, why not give them the rightful attention. Futhermore before this, my friends always comment that the MP3s I mixed with my old speakers, always sound dark and depressive. Now, I don't think I am those depressive type so I went out to get those monitors once I found a good deal on them !
There !