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shawn gibson
New member
OK I'm at a bar, and I have 600 bucks Canadian to get my sound up to par for my new little home recording thingie. And I've been sweating over getting something like Proto-J's and a used amp or M-Audio BX-8,s and now my buddy who is also a musician is saying I should get good headphones for that money, for recording?
So...do you spend 600 bucks on good headphones and an amp when you're starting out, or do you get ref. monitors and an amp/active monitors??? My recording is currently all direct.
I think he's nuts, but his points are very convincing: get rid of the acoustics of the room, listen directly to what you're recording. But I'm saying: how the hell am I gonna get a good reference out of a 1 inch speaker???
Thoughts...
Shawn
ps anything beats the 15 year old stupid bustaboy SHARPE thing I'm using, so please help.
So...do you spend 600 bucks on good headphones and an amp when you're starting out, or do you get ref. monitors and an amp/active monitors??? My recording is currently all direct.
I think he's nuts, but his points are very convincing: get rid of the acoustics of the room, listen directly to what you're recording. But I'm saying: how the hell am I gonna get a good reference out of a 1 inch speaker???
Thoughts...
Shawn
ps anything beats the 15 year old stupid bustaboy SHARPE thing I'm using, so please help.