What monitors do you recommend?

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I am looking to buy a pair of GOOD monitors between $100-$500. Can you recommend anything? I have a Delta 44 soundcard/breakout box, a Behringer 1604A mixer, decent mics (Oktavas, 57, beta 52), and I am working with Cool Edit Pro 2.0. (I have Cakewalk Sonar but promised myself I would start using it once I got some monitor speakers and try to get away from the amatuer-ish CEP2.) If any of this matters, excellent. If not, you now know a lot about me :).

So my fellow engineers, what pair of monitors do you recommend? Powered or unpowered? Thanks!

Here are some recent recordings:



...and if you've played the SNES or computer game "Doom" you'll LOVE THIS!

(Did this at 2am so I had to use sampled drums :-/)

Enjoy!
 
damn, your stuff sounds pretty good. i like the drum sound. i'm thinking that it is because of your octavas...just wondering - how did you mike the set?

and, did you do anything to make the mix a little warmer? i THOUGHT it was my delta that was giving me these non "warm" mixes...but perhaps it is not at all...haha.

yeah, i have no input on monitors..maybe you could PM me if you dont wanna make this topic about something else. haha.
peace, and thanks. haha
 
Thanks and thanks for the kind words. I have a cliche drum micing setup; 2 oktavas over head, 57 on snare, 52 on kick. I don't really understand what people mean exactly when they say "warm" still heh. Anyways, I am hoping that once I get some monitors I can escape my current sound. I've been mixing on Boston subwoofer speakers this whole time, ugh.

I'll check out the site, but continue recommending monitors if it's not too much trouble :) .
 
Get the Yorkvilles, you'll be impressed.

CEP 2.0 is not "amatuer-ish". It's a very powerful editor and a pretty good multitracker with excellent real-time effects.
If you need midi, then sonar can help- but its not my first choice of a sequencer. If you're tracking audio, cool edit is much more powerful in its editing capabilities

I don't know why'd you spend 275 dollars on Cool Edit and then turn around and spend 300 on Sonar... That money could have been spent on some better speakers my friend. See if you can't return one

I hope you didn't just download them off a warez-site and you're picking and choosing whichever you'd like....if that's the case, ignore my help
 
sounds pretty fuckin good- little bass heavy- probably a result of your monitors- im usin event tr-8 actives- i like em, but ive never used anything else, so i really cant compare- theyre about $500 new

wow- just listened to the doom thing- really bass heavy-

btw- i use cep 2.0- love it
 
No need to be snobby, Chris. I bought CEP2 some time ago, Sonar was burned for me by a good friend who bought it himself.

Anyways, the tracks are so bass heavy because I am mixing on Boston Subwoofer speakers, heh.

The Yorkvilles look nice, I am considering buying them. Just for kicks, can you recommend $300-$500 monitors?
 
Also, are the regular Yorkville YSM1s (NOT the YSM1iPs) powered or unpowered? I need powered monitors.
 
Yo Fatts:

The Yorkville boxes are cool. If you want powered, get powered. I've been using the YSM-1 boxes for a long time.

Oh, you can get better boxes; however, for the money, you'll be happy with Yorks.

Yorkville doesn't do a large amount of advertising in EM or other pubs; hence, their price reflects that. But, they are quality.

Jus search this board and most all will agree the Yorks are cool.

Green Hornet :D :D :D :p
 
Awesome! Then I'm going to go with the Yorkville YSM1p (Powered) monitors. I am an amatuer engineer (obviously) so I think these will be just perfect.

Thanks for the help!
 
FattMusiek said:
Awesome! Then I'm going to go with the Yorkville YSM1p (Powered) monitors. I am an amatuer engineer (obviously) so I think these will be just perfect.

Thanks for the help!
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If possible,, try to visit a local or nearby gear place to listen to others. I said Yorks because I had a pair and some NS10s. I loved the way the yorks sound (passives) but I was using a pair of Bose 301s before that. LOL Yep,, and I got some of my best mixes from the Bose ( I knew them ). took about 2 years to get a good mix though. Playing tracks here , there everywhere for at least 2 years to learn their short comings. Then I got the Yorks and hooked them up and learned what nearfield really meant. They were cheap,, but a lot better than the Bose. Back then I never really seriously mixed on the NS10s.. I buddy gave them to me and when I hooked them up.. They didn't thump or sound loud enough for what I though back then a speaker should sound like.. That was back then though. I didnt understand nearfield.
Got a pair of Mackie 824s now. Thats a whole nother ballpark in regards to the Yorks.. But if I had to start over again and did not have the money,, I would get the Yorks.

Good Luck
Malcolm824 ( Good idea Digi. LOL )
 
My apologies Fatt.... I was fired up from another post about software piracy (Though installing a burned version ain't all too kosher)

You'll love you're Yorkvilles- big improvement :)


Best of Luck
Chris
 
Yes! They came today! They're huge! I thought they would be small like my friend's M-Audio monitors (not sure of the model). I already hear a huge difference in music thru the monitors.
 
malcolm123 said:
If possible,, try to visit a local or nearby gear place to listen to others. I said Yorks because I had a pair and some NS10s. I loved the way the yorks sound (passives) but I was using a pair of Bose 301s before that. LOL Yep,, and I got some of my best mixes from the Bose ( I knew them ). took about 2 years to get a good mix though. Playing tracks here , there everywhere for at least 2 years to learn their short comings. Then I got the Yorks and hooked them up and learned what nearfield really meant. They were cheap,, but a lot better than the Bose. Back then I never really seriously mixed on the NS10s.. I buddy gave them to me and when I hooked them up.. They didn't thump or sound loud enough for what I though back then a speaker should sound like.. That was back then though. I didnt understand nearfield.
Got a pair of Mackie 824s now. Thats a whole nother ballpark in regards to the Yorks.. But if I had to start over again and did not have the money,, I would get the Yorks.

Good Luck
Malcolm824 ( Good idea Digi. LOL )
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you know it! : )
 
FattMusiek said:

...and if you've played the SNES or computer game "Doom" you'll LOVE THIS!
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No freakin' way! How cool! My brother and I still play DOOM coop on the LAN every single day.
Awesome job with the song, except you didn't do the sweet guitar lick at the end of the line! I kept waiting for it to happen, I was so dissapointed you left it out.
 
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