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dintymoore
Guest
Hey, we all see what we want to see! 
philbagg
Just Killing Time
This thread has taken an awfully strange turn 
TeyshaBlue
It's the smell..
For tracking, I want something as accurate as I can afford. Accuracy is the key word here. I want to lay down exactly what I think I am hearing.
Mixing...different animal. I can and have mixed on a good number of monitors/speakers. Hell, I mixed on some Sony bookshelf speakers for years..and the mixes translanted well, only because I knew the shortcoming of those speakers intimately. I knew I'd have to make a mix a little brighter than I wanted it to be when using them so that when I played them back on consumer gear, the tonality would be balanced. Then I bought a set of EV MS802...more mid-field than anything else. Suddenly, it became easier, and quicker, to capture a translatable mix...primarily because I wasn't having to do a lot of second guessing/compensating. I've done some very good mixes on NS10's, but I sure as hell wouldn't track with them.
Nowdays, in my very small home studio, I use a pair of Rokkit 5's. Not great, but for the money, the best I could find for me and the styles of music I involve myself with. I auditioned many monitors with a variety of music I was very familiar with and they emerged as the cleanest.
Last week, I worked with a pair of Adam A7's. Holy hell were they nice. I could listen deep into the mix..much deeper than my Rokkits afford me, but then again, the A7's are about $1100/pr.
Mixing...different animal. I can and have mixed on a good number of monitors/speakers. Hell, I mixed on some Sony bookshelf speakers for years..and the mixes translanted well, only because I knew the shortcoming of those speakers intimately. I knew I'd have to make a mix a little brighter than I wanted it to be when using them so that when I played them back on consumer gear, the tonality would be balanced. Then I bought a set of EV MS802...more mid-field than anything else. Suddenly, it became easier, and quicker, to capture a translatable mix...primarily because I wasn't having to do a lot of second guessing/compensating. I've done some very good mixes on NS10's, but I sure as hell wouldn't track with them.
Nowdays, in my very small home studio, I use a pair of Rokkit 5's. Not great, but for the money, the best I could find for me and the styles of music I involve myself with. I auditioned many monitors with a variety of music I was very familiar with and they emerged as the cleanest.
Last week, I worked with a pair of Adam A7's. Holy hell were they nice. I could listen deep into the mix..much deeper than my Rokkits afford me, but then again, the A7's are about $1100/pr.