Entry Level Monitors for Home Guitar/Recording

[JDs Couch]

These are both really good advice, as well.

I have a set of Sennheiser HD600s, which aren't ridiculously expensive by any standard, and I trust them more than any monitors I've ever heard - and i've worked in some studios with insane nice monitors. You'd be surprised how many professionals mix on cheap headphones or monitors because they know how they reproduce sound.

Also as @stratjacket says, people always completely ignore the room correction part of the equation. It doesn't matter how nice or crappy your monitors are if the room has no treatment or isn't corrected - you're just going to have different problem frequencies and blind spots, and chase your tail in an entirely new way AND be however much poorer.

Yep, when I built out a basement studio in my last house, I had the opportunity to set the dimensions to avoid standing waves (avoid having the same number for any two of LxWxH) and also avoid multiples. Also heavy room treatment with Roxul 703 wrapped in fabric. Worked great.

 

[DanTravis62]

Yep, when I built out a basement studio in my last house, I had the opportunity to set the dimensions to avoid standing waves (avoid having the same number for any two of LxWxH) and also avoid multiples. Also heavy room treatment with Roxul 703 wrapped in fabric. Worked great.

Its crazy that people spend thousands of dollars on their monitors without even beginning to treat their room with ANYTHING

But people do it all the time, and then wonder why their barefoot sound or clarisys monitors didn't magically make their mixes sound "pro" automatically

I've been asked multiple times to check out people's setups where this has happened

and I'm not even exaggerating, yes they spent "down payment on a house" money on monitors without any treatment. Not even BASS TRAPS. NOTHING.

This is why I'm always a little eye-rolly about dudes with amazing studio gear even on RT. None of this shit means anything if you can't use it; and that works for Cameron's and Trainwrecks, and it works triple for monitoring

 

[JDs Couch]

Its crazy that people spend thousands of dollars on their monitors without even beginning to treat their room with ANYTHING

But people do it all the time, and then wonder why their barefoot sound or clarisys monitors didn't magically make their mixes sound "pro" automatically

I've been asked multiple times to check out people's setups where this has happened

and I'm not even exaggerating, yes they spent "down payment on a house" money on monitors without any treatment. Not even BASS TRAPS. NOTHING.

This is why I'm always a little eye-rolly about dudes with amazing studio gear even on RT. None of this shit means anything if you can't use it; and that works for Cameron's and Trainwrecks, and it works triple for monitoring

For sure. I spent a fair bit of time reading on GearSlutz back then and learned a shitload about studio design and build. And built a pretty good sounding jam/tracking room and a good control room. Decent isolation between them and the outside world as well.