Monitors? No Monitors? The Speakers That CAME with Your Computer?!!!

[KonradG]

BE HONEST!

how many of you have real monitors?

I'll start:

I use live monitors and to top it off,
I burn a quick mix and sit in my car with it (good balanced sound system)

But im only recording my band in there so i got nothin to hide

 

[Dr Biscuits]

Well, I use the most "real" monitors my budget allowed me at the time, the Dynaudio BM5A's. I used crappy bookshelf speakers (well, they were *good* bookshelf speakers) for years and probably spent way more in CDR's to check my mixes elsewhere than the Dynaudio's cost!

 

[Robert D]

BE HONEST!

how many of you have real monitors?

Oh man, you caught us. None of us have real monitors. I just pasted a picture of some KRKs on the wall behind my DAW.

 

[studiomaster]

Real monitors, no duh.

 

[Track Rat]

I run 3 sets. Yorkville YSM-1's, JBL LX-55's and a small set of Bose that I can't recall the numbers on right now.

 

[SouthSIDE Glen]

I'd love to hear you're definition of "real monitors".

Is it anything that a manufacturer decided to paste the term "studio monitor" on the box? Or is it something that actually perfroms as well as a "real monitor" should?

If someone is using a $10,000 pair of MartinLogan Vantages that are marketed to the home audiophile but not marketed as studio monitors, even though they will blow 95% of loudspeakers stamped as "studio monitors" out of the water, are they not using "real monitors"?

OTOH, if some is using Roland DS5's, which are sold in the music stores as studio monitors right next to the Genelecs and ADAMSs, but which no one except the most tin eared could consider a "real monitor" any more than they could a Jensen 6x9 coaxial, is that a "real monitor"? Where does one draw the line?

I use Mackie HR824s. There are some engineers that don't even consier those "real monitors".

I also use a pair of consumer Klipsch kg0.5 bookshelves as a translation reference along with the 824s. Are those not working for me as "real monitors" just as much as the Mackies are?

So where exactly are you drawing the line?

G.

 

[slidey]

So where exactly are you drawing the line?

G.

obviously on the wall either side of his desk

I have a pair of Tannoy dual concentric, pair of Tannoy reveals & a bollox pair of JVC's run from a bollox kenwood hifi amp, a boogiebox & a bedside CD/radio alarm with an aux in

I also have a pair of 3 way JBL's & a pair of vaguely nasty Jamo's in my living room

 

[slidey]

BTW SSG. did you get the skiffle I PM'd you???

 

[SouthSIDE Glen]

BTW SSG. did you get the skiffle I PM'd you???

I just got your message but I haven't had a chance to slidey on over there and check it out yet. I'm just now signing off ang getting back to real work (so to sleak ). I'm looking forward to checking it out later this evening (-5hr GMT), I'll let you know what I think, looks like it should be pretty cool, though. Thx.

G.

 

[Mindset]

ey, I don't think I'm using the "real" monitors I would like to use, my budget only allowed me to grab a set of studiopro 4's from m-audio

 

[JoeyPazera]

i bought bx8's the day i first bought my recording stuff, cause i wanted a good pair of speakers for my computer, and these are awesome!

 

[brandrum]

does a blue sky media desk count? best $500.00 I ever spent as far as my set up.

 

[djchris73]

Pair of Edirol MA-10As.
$150 for the pair.
Flat response, near field monitors.

You could get bigger, more expensive (not necessarily better). Check your mixes to a commercial, reference CD. Something you know and others agree was recorded well. It helps if it's something your trying to emulate (the recording aspect, not the style of music I mean). I make electronic dance music. So I compare my bass, kick snare, synths and vocals to my reference CD using my monitors. Just A/B your mix with your refence CD using your monitors. Hope this helps.

 

[MadAudio]

I had to explain to the Dell guy why I didn't want any "speakers" with my computer.

Wharfedale 8.2As with a KRK RP-10S sub
Yamaha NS-10s (yeah I know shut up)
and a pair of Rat Shack Minimus 7s

 

[xstatic]

I am going to step out on a limb and say that my Dynaudios are real monitors.

 

[slidey]

Yamaha NS-10s (yeah I know shut up)

NO....................................

 

[studiomaster]

Use what your ears prefer...

 

[CoolCat]

does a blue sky media desk count? best $500.00 I ever spent as far as my set up.

never heard them at home myself, but i really liked my few demo listens to the Blue Skys. if your going small footprint, and a sub...why not buy one thats designed in and the sealed cab for tighter bass...

best $500, you spent...quiete a compliment.

 

[TragikRemix]

Just purchased (in the process of) Yamaha NS10m's! nobody kill me, i know there is some controversy with who likes them and who thinks they are a waste...

but i like them. i know 2 other recording guys that use them, and they swear buy them...

the cabinets are kinda ugly, but i got them cheaper because of it, but all brand new genuine ns10m replacment tweeters and woofers, direct from yamaha (i work in a music store, we get killer prices!!)

but i was using headphones until last week....

 

[xstatic]

Typically, the people that talk badly about ns-10's either have not used them, or just do not know how to use them. Everyone knows they are nopt beuatiful, but those with experience also know that they are very capable.