Studio guys what monitors do you guys prefer?

[dawnofdreamx97]

believe it or not

The JBL LSR4328 and LSR6328 are both fantastic monitors. The room correction works fairly well ! I own both along with a set of avantone active mixcubes and they are great...If you need monitors let me know, i manage a music store and have will give you the rig talk discount!

 

[Audioholic]

Jens Bogren highly recommended the following:

"However, if i would recommend you a completely non-flattering monitor that will get the job done almost for free, it would be KRK V8 series 1."

-Andy Sneap Forum

But the V8s are no longer produced, are they? What's the equivalent current model?

They came out with the VXT series. http://www.zzounds.com/item--KRKVXT8

I love my V6's, but There are a few things that I can hear improvement on, from what I have heard the newer models are supposed to be a step up in sound and quality, so I don't think its a step in the wrong direction. Since I am so used to my V6's, I most likely will port over to the VXT 8's hopefully soon. I have gotten great use out of my V6's!

 

[petethorn]

Adam A7's are kick ass

Dynaudio Bm5 whatevers are nice too but I prefer the Adam's

 

[kasperjensen]

The most important thing, whichever monitors you decide to go for, is room treatment.

I would highly recommend spending a little extra money on some acoustic tiles and bass traps, to set up in the room. There are plenty of methods of how to do this, but a good starting point is to trap the corners, and tile a bit of the major flat surfaces (including the roof!).
Also tile behind the speakers.

Next thing to do is to buy monitor stands, and pads for these stands, and place the monitors so that they create a perfect (as near as you can get it) triangle with your mixing position. i.e. the distance between the two monitors has to be the same as the distance between your ears and the corresponding monitors.

Then you will need a friend to help you with the next step... Sit in the mixing position and have your friend walk around the room moving a mirror around on the walls (50x50 cm mirror will do).
When you can see any of the two monitors in the mirrored reflection, you will need to place some dampening material in that spot (again, this will need to be done with the ceiling).
Now you have created the ideal listening position, and eliminated, for all intents and purposes, aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh... I cant remember the word for it.... pre-delay? Anyway... the sound from hitting your ears twice and creating false images.

The quality of any set of monitors will be greatly improved.
Believe me, its worth the money and hassle to go through this.

 

[Audioholic]

The most important thing, whichever monitors you decide to go for, is room treatment.

I would highly recommend spending a little extra money on some acoustic tiles and bass traps, to set up in the room. There are plenty of methods of how to do this, but a good starting point is to trap the corners, and tile a bit of the major flat surfaces (including the roof!).
Also tile behind the speakers.

Next thing to do is to buy monitor stands, and pads for these stands, and place the monitors so that they create a perfect (as near as you can get it) triangle with your mixing position. i.e. the distance between the two monitors has to be the same as the distance between your ears and the corresponding monitors.

Then you will need a friend to help you with the next step... Sit in the mixing position and have your friend walk around the room moving a mirror around on the walls (50x50 cm mirror will do).
When you can see any of the two monitors in the mirrored reflection, you will need to place some dampening material in that spot (again, this will need to be done with the ceiling).
Now you have created the ideal listening position, and eliminated, for all intents and purposes, aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh... I cant remember the word for it.... pre-delay? Anyway... the sound from hitting your ears twice and creating false images.

The quality of any set of monitors will be greatly improved.
Believe me, its worth the money and hassle to go through this.

Nice thing about near field monitors are that they actually work well even in untreated rooms, they help minimize how the room interacts and you get a good sound from the nearfield position. Not that room acoustics are not important, they are, but I think you can have a good monitoring experience even without walking around tiling and padding all sorts of areas. IF you are noticing build up of certain frequencies or slap, then these shoudl be addressed at some point, but unless you are needing dead perfect acoustics, and lets be honest, an expensive studio will be about the only place with near perfect acoustics, you can probally get away without going acoustic crazy at first.

 

[kasperjensen]

I get what you mean, but this (I have just done it to my home studio) is very cheap to do. It cost me under 100 euro to do up my whole room, which is about 36m2, and it made a HUGE difference.
This is of course not to say that you can not achieve good results without it.
I just think its a bit daft to buy everything you need to record (which can be very expensive), and then not treat a room.
You can have all the most advanced and expensive equipment in the world, but it wont produce good results without a proper environment. So therefore, I think its imperative to treat the room. Obviously it will not be state of the art acoustics, but its a big leap forward from and untreated room.

Just my 2c anyway.

 

[van hellion]

Check out the KRK line. Sound damn good & are pretty cost effective. I beat the crap out of mine & never had any issues.

hell yeah the krk's are GREAT if your on a budget.

A Wood