
Nate74
HR4FREBR
I sat down two weeks ago having decided my mixes weren't translating well and I needed new monitors. I turned to this board and was shocked to learn that room acoustics were to blame, not my old Yorkville YSM1s. Or at least acoustics were the primary problem.
8 homemade bass traps later and I'm floored by what it's done for the few mixes I've done since I put the traps up.
I'm now confident enough in my room to return to the original question of monitors. So again I began reading the seemingly countless monitor threads archived here.
In this reading I'm finding a lot of comments like, "Those are too bassy," "Those exagerate the highs," and "Those don't work well for Celtic Hip-Hop."
From these various comments I've deduced that you want the "flattest" response you can get so you have an accurate picture of what you're mixing (no brainger right?)
So the engineer in me devised this idea:
1) buy all the monitors you think you might want and one by one set them up in your room.
2) Run a wav file of various sine waves ranging from about 20Hz up to mayb 20 kHz
3) Hold an SPL meter at your listening location and see where the variations are for each frequency range -or-
3a) Use several mics all located at the listening location and record the response (dB) at the various frequencies to see what the variations in dB level are
Is this even possible to do? Would the results be telling enough to help with selection? Am I nuts? (don't need an answer for that one). Is there an easier, less time consuming way of getting this info? What else should one consider when looking for monitors?
8 homemade bass traps later and I'm floored by what it's done for the few mixes I've done since I put the traps up.
I'm now confident enough in my room to return to the original question of monitors. So again I began reading the seemingly countless monitor threads archived here.
In this reading I'm finding a lot of comments like, "Those are too bassy," "Those exagerate the highs," and "Those don't work well for Celtic Hip-Hop."
From these various comments I've deduced that you want the "flattest" response you can get so you have an accurate picture of what you're mixing (no brainger right?)
So the engineer in me devised this idea:
1) buy all the monitors you think you might want and one by one set them up in your room.
2) Run a wav file of various sine waves ranging from about 20Hz up to mayb 20 kHz
3) Hold an SPL meter at your listening location and see where the variations are for each frequency range -or-
3a) Use several mics all located at the listening location and record the response (dB) at the various frequencies to see what the variations in dB level are
Is this even possible to do? Would the results be telling enough to help with selection? Am I nuts? (don't need an answer for that one). Is there an easier, less time consuming way of getting this info? What else should one consider when looking for monitors?