Need help with monitoring

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Not sure if this is the right place but basically I do music technology at college and we have to do a presentation explaining certain terms and I'm stuck on these ones:

Near-field monitoring
Midfield monitoring
Full range:
Frequency response
Two-way monitoring
Three-way monitoring
Passive vs Active
Power rating

I have no clue what any of these are, I figured someone here could help me in simple terms, thanks.
 
Have you tried google?

I'm sure you don't want others to do your assignment for you.
 
angelling31 said:
Not sure if this is the right place but basically I do music technology at college and we have to do a presentation explaining certain terms and I'm stuck on these ones:

Near-field monitoring
Midfield monitoring
Full range:
Frequency response
Two-way monitoring
Three-way monitoring
Passive vs Active
Power rating

I have no clue what any of these are, I figured someone here could help me in simple terms, thanks.
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LOL wtf? Your taking music technology in college and you have no idea what those terms mean? Isn't that what you are in school to learn? Everyone of those terms is defined in wikipedia. If this is what you are studying in school shouldn't you be STUDYING?
 
Near Field is when you put the speakers outside, but close to your house. Midfield is when you put your speakers directly on the pitcher's mound of your nearest baseball field.

Full Range is the same thing as a happy ending. Frequency response is another prostitute reference that has to do with how often you...well, you know. Two and Three Ways...well, hopefully you're old enough to understand those. Passive v. Active...Let me just put it this way...you don't really want the passive hookers.

And the Power Rating is how prostitutes score you on a scale of one to ten, ten being the mostest awesomest.

Good luck, and stay in school and off the pipe!!!
 
Also (and I realize I may be banned for this), but fuck you and your one post.
 
maybe you really are the smartest guy in the room Chris :)
 
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angelling31 said:
Not sure if this is the right place but basically I do music technology at college and we have to do a presentation explaining certain terms and I'm stuck on these ones:

Near-field monitoring
Midfield monitoring
Full range:
Frequency response
Two-way monitoring
Three-way monitoring
Passive vs Active
Power rating

I have no clue what any of these are, I figured someone here could help me in simple terms, thanks.
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You've got to be fucking kidding.

No wonder America is sliding ass-backwards down the toilet.

You should be ashamed of yourself but you are obviously too fucking lazy for that.

Do your own work, dumbfuck.
 
I feel sort of bad about telling this guy to fuck off. What if he's some kind of prodigy and (even though he's in college) is only 11 years old. If that's the case, then I take it back.

But dude, if you're over 18, you should be shot directly in the face.
 
Can I just say that a) I'm from England so when I say college I mean what you guys would call high school (I'm 16). B) I have googled, all they do is give me products and wiki doesn't exaplin it simply enough, I've checked out the book 'modern recording techniques' like my teacher suggested that was waaayyyy to complicated. I'm not asking anyone to do my studying for me, I've already completed the rest of the presentation that i need it's just this one page that I'm stuck on. Why is it so much just to ask for some help? When someone explains what the terms mean I will be able to finish using my own words, but instead everyone has taken it upon themselves to be horrible. I just needed some help but it seems no one is willing to be serious and instead wants to call me stupid, I'll look elsewhere then, thank you for your time. Last of all: I'm a girl.
 
angelling31 said:
Last of all: I'm a girl.
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Well you didn't tell us you were handicapped. (kidding, kidding).

Ok, well I'm personally regretful for talking to a kid that way. I'm sorry. The internet is weird. I'll try to help a little.

Nearfield Monitoring is just a term used to describe the configuration of audio monitors (speakers) when they are less than 4 feet from the guy mixing.

I've never heard of midfield monitoring, but as you can tell, I'm sort of an idiot. I assume it's when the speakers are further away.

"Full Range" when describing a speaker is just a cabinet that's an "all in one" speaker. It has the drivers to produce low, mid, and high frequencies. Your typical home stereo speaker would fall into this category. But if you look at speakers for public address systems, they typically have "subs" which are speaker cabinets devoted entirely to producing just low end sound, and then you have "mains" on top of them, which are separate cabinets that produce the mids and highs. I'm simplifying here, because no speaker actually covers the entire audio spectrum, but for purposes of your question, a full range speaker is a single cabinet that reproduces the entire audible spectrum.

"Active v. Passive" - When talking about speakers, these terms refer to the power source (amplifier). "Passive" speakers do not have an amp built into them, so they require an external power source or amplifier. As you might guess, "Active" speakers do have built in power, so they do not require an external amplifier in order to reproduce sound.

Power ratings - if you have passive speakers (i.e., need an external amp) then you need to match the power of the amp to the capabilities of the speaker. This is done through power ratings. If you have a 1,000 watt amplifier (500 watts per channel) and a 100 watt speaker, you are going to probably have a fire, because there's way too much power being sent to a 100 watt speaker. Similarly, if you have an amplifier that is underpowered such that the user is turning it up to 10, it's probably going to distort and blow the tweeters out of the speaker. This subject is beyond my meager ability to talk about in depth, but for purposes of what you're asking, it's basically a ratings system to match up amps and speakers to prevent fires and blown speakers.

I'll let others jump in now, mostly because I don't know much about this stuff, and I know that everybody except c7sus will feel an overwhelming urge to apologize, lol. Good luck.
 
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LOL @ chrisharris for falling for it.

BTW, "I'm a girl" is the lamest reason of all for not doing your own research. Good luck using that as an excuse for not making an effort for the rest of your life.
 
Blimey c7sus, you're sharp today. Mind you don't cut yourself.

I would say that asking home recorders what certain terms mean is doing research and making an effort. Nobody pounced on me last week when I asked what "one note bass" meant. No one pounced on me when I asked what a sequencer was a few months back. Both times what many knew to be a simple and common answer was answered informatively and politely. But the reality is if you don't know, then you don't know. Sometimes some of us here make it seem like a crime punishable by exile, torture or death simply not to know what you know and to ask.
Angelling, regardless of whether you're a girl and 16, welcome to HR. It's not always like this. Somehow though, I doubt we'll be making your acquaintance.
 
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Blimey c7sus, you're sharp today. Mind you don't cut yourself.

I would say that asking home recorders what certain terms mean is doing research and making an effort. Nobody pounced on me last week when I asked what "one note bass" meant. No one pounced on me when I asked what a sequencer was a few months back. Both times what many knew to be a simple and common answer was answered informatively and politely. But the reality is if you don't know, then you don't know. Sometimes some of us here make it seem like a crime punishable by exile, torture or death simply not to know what you know and to ask.
Angelling, regardless of whether you're a girl and 16, welcome to HR. It's not always like this. Somehow though, I doubt we'll be making your acquaintance.
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the thing is, coming to a board, registering and asking people to define terms for you and then having to go back ..... look thru the responses and figure out which ones are decent is a LOT more work than simply googling the terms in the first place.
Further ...... if the definitions on wikipedia are too hard to understand ( "I'm a girl") then our explanations aren't going to be any more comprehendable.
Here's what popped up in the search engine results without even having to actually GO to any site: "A near-field speaker is a compact studio monitor designed for listening at close range" ..... if she can't understand that then it's ridiculous to think we're gonna spoon-feed it anymore than that.
 
Okay, I'll play along. Besides, if she uses Chris' input she's gonna fail fer sure.

"Full range" refers to the human audible hearing range i.e. 20-20,000Hz.

A Google reference. Imagine that. Number 1 out of 33,000,000 results.

Full-range speaker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Frequency response.

Uh oh, another Google result. #1 out of 8.3 million responses. Easy to miss. Sorry it is full of technical jargon and includes no references to designer shoes or Justin Bieber.

Frequency response - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Three-way speakers" Google result: #3 out of 5.19 million. Again, pretty easy to miss. :rolleyes:

Loudspeaker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Here's another handy reference.

Pro Audio Reference
 
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c7sus said:
can I get back to perfecting the cure for female inability to orgasm?
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I think you'll find that if they have sex with anyone but you, that'll go a long ways towards fixing the problem!

:D
 
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