need advice monitors

[slowgin]

I just started building on a home recording studio
and im sort of new to this. I was thinking of buying
some monitors as of now im using headphones and stereo speakers
so I felt that I should get some good tips on what im using vs
monitors for a good mix. I should also include that im in a gameroom
so it's spacious far as what brand of monitors would do good.

 

[travelin travis]

Monitors are one of the best purchases you can make for your home studio. Choosing monitors seems to be subjective. Your room conditions are probably as important as the monitors. Read user reviews, get a pair, use em for a while, and if you're lucky, they'll work for you. That's all I got. I could tell you which monitors I have but there's probably a 50/50 chance of them working for you. Good luck!

 

[Monkey Allen]

The way I chose mine was to read around as much as I could...especially on amazon dot com where you can read scores of customer reviews. Even though it can be a bit like reading movie reviews on IMDB (in that they are all subjective and in the end you just don't know what to believe), you still can get a fairly decent idea of what to buy.

Anyway, I told myself just after I bought my first monitors, that at least I did basically all I could to find out the ins and outs of them before I bought them.

The other thing is budget. I mean, if I was a millionaire, I'd just buy all sorts of monitors.

 

[CoolCat]

just moving to monitors from headphones really helped me out (and saved alot of CDR's).


whats your amp and stereo speakers?

is this a musician/recording..or a Mixing/Eng recording Bands setup?
Mastering room?

 

[Nate74]

I'll loudly second what Travis already said. Room conditions (ie. treatment) has proven to be a much more important element of my setup than monitors. I went through three sets of monitors before realizing that without propper bass traps, nothing was going to translate well in my room. I spent about $200 and made 8 2'x4'x4" traps and my mixes are now translating beatifully. That $200 is a small price to pay compared to what I spent on those first sets of monitors. Shitty thing is, I bet I'd be happy with any of them now that my room is properly treated. Read the studio setup posts on bass traps and anything by Ethan will be golden!