Mr. C
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Can any type of speakers be used as monitors? I have a set of Yamaha speakers that I would like to use but I wasn't sure if there are special speakers made to use as monitors.
A Reel Person
It's Too Funky in Here!!!
They do make special speakers to use as monitors, which is a whole industry,...
but that doesn't preclude you from using your existing pair of Yamaha hifi home speakers, as long as you have an amp or home hifi reciever to drive them. Your existing speakers, + amp or reciever, should be adequate and functional enough to do what you want to do, with your Portastudio 424mkII.
Besides,... do you think the bulk of your "average record buying public" listens to cd's on special "monitors" or regular home hifi speakers? Think about it.
Dude, don't believe all the hype you'll hear about & around "monitors", & how "special" they are,... including the naysayers as yet to follow this post. I see them coming out of the woodwork, & lining up, to take a shot at me, now.
but that doesn't preclude you from using your existing pair of Yamaha hifi home speakers, as long as you have an amp or home hifi reciever to drive them. Your existing speakers, + amp or reciever, should be adequate and functional enough to do what you want to do, with your Portastudio 424mkII.
Besides,... do you think the bulk of your "average record buying public" listens to cd's on special "monitors" or regular home hifi speakers? Think about it.
Dude, don't believe all the hype you'll hear about & around "monitors", & how "special" they are,... including the naysayers as yet to follow this post. I see them coming out of the woodwork, & lining up, to take a shot at me, now.
B
Beck
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The important thing to know about monitors is that inexpensive consumer listening speakers are generally designed to enhance certain frequencies. If you mix on speakers and/or with an amp that enhances the bass and/or the highs, your recordings will be lacking in those frequencies. That's because you will tend to back those frequencies down with your eq since the speakers are boosting them.
The end-user will play music on many and varied types of speakers, so it has become more or less standard to mix on monitors that are as flat as possible.
Another school of thought is to mix on monitors that act very unlike hi-fi speakers. So rather than flat the monitors look somewhat opposite on a graph -- like the Yamaha NS10. This approach sees a group of people trying to walk in an earthquake and notices the town drunk is the only one walking straight and steady -- What??? yeah I know... just think about it for a minute, it'll come to you (maybe).
Masters of the NS10 turn out very sweet sounding mixes, free of flabby bass and harshness.
There are a lot of good monitors out there, and many aren't any more expensive than a good set of hi-fi speakers at Best Buy.
I like the passive Yorkville YSM1i
http://www.yorkville.com/products.asp?type=33&cat=20&id=119
Everyone has their favorite that they swear by.
It's good idea to test your mix on different monitors, including headphones.
The end-user will play music on many and varied types of speakers, so it has become more or less standard to mix on monitors that are as flat as possible.
Another school of thought is to mix on monitors that act very unlike hi-fi speakers. So rather than flat the monitors look somewhat opposite on a graph -- like the Yamaha NS10. This approach sees a group of people trying to walk in an earthquake and notices the town drunk is the only one walking straight and steady -- What??? yeah I know... just think about it for a minute, it'll come to you (maybe).
Masters of the NS10 turn out very sweet sounding mixes, free of flabby bass and harshness.
There are a lot of good monitors out there, and many aren't any more expensive than a good set of hi-fi speakers at Best Buy.
I like the passive Yorkville YSM1i
http://www.yorkville.com/products.asp?type=33&cat=20&id=119
Everyone has their favorite that they swear by.
It's good idea to test your mix on different monitors, including headphones.
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