Original Message 1/19                 Date: 20-Oct-01  @  04:20 PM   -   MONITORS?

amileunderground

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I'm looking for some good monitors with some bottom end. How about the events or the Mackies self powered, are these a good choice?

I do mostly hip hop and down tempo.

Thanks......

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Message 2/19                 Date: 20-Oct-01  @  11:54 PM   -   RE: MONITORS?

milan

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use the archives in this forum, sellect "show last 365 days", and read about monitors untill you´re sick of it.

mackie´s have the baddest low end of anything below 2000GBP mark. heart-stopping, kitchen-utensil-shaking, radiator-rattling bass. and i´m not kidding, i get all of these effects in my room on a daily basis. 37Hz. nuff said.

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Message 3/19                 Date: 22-Oct-01  @  10:24 PM   -   RE: MONITORS?

Pongoid

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agreed.

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Message 4/19                 Date: 23-Oct-01  @  12:32 AM     Edit: 23-Oct-01  |  12:33 AM   -   RE: MONITORS?

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there's my main ones... nasty peices of work they are   vintage richard-allen paper drivers.. jubbly! - earth shaking bass! - just rebuilding right now...

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Message 5/19                 Date: 23-Oct-01  @  01:00 AM   -   RE: MONITORS?

steve

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fuck me, not bad for a home stack, eh? What sort of amp are driving those buggers k?

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Message 6/19                 Date: 23-Oct-01  @  01:17 AM   -   RE: MONITORS?

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damn look at that mess! 

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Message 7/19                 Date: 23-Oct-01  @  05:42 PM   -   RE: MONITORS?

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The HR824's have good low end but are hard to mix on if you are a novice. They make everything sound good. You should be mixing at low volume on tight speakers like yamaha ns-10's. If it sounds good on them it will translate to other systems. Get a sub woofer to do low end monotoring, but switch it off and do your mixing at low volume first to get the mix ballanced right. All the music should be clear and articulate at low levels on tight flat speakers. Big bottom speakers may color the mix and make your song sound to boomy or peak at the wrong freaquencies when played on systems that can't reproduce the signal the same. I use Roland DS90's. They are tight and have good low end, they are somewhere between the HR-24's and yamaha NS-10's in character. Tannoy, is also an option, but if you can afford it, get some Genelic near fields. Genelic makes the best flat responce near fields for the money, and Meyer makes some little mastering bookshelf speakers that are so tight and flat that they translate flawlessly. Let the mastering get the rest done for vinyl or cd finishing.

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Message 8/19                 Date: 23-Oct-01  @  05:52 PM   -   RE: MONITORS?

milan

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ahem...

if you´re a novice to studio monitors, then ANY decent monitor is going to blow you away, whether Mackie or Genelic (sic)(lol). but if you a/b your mix with a finished track in the similar vein you´ll quickly see if your mix is there yet or not.

oh, and saying something is between Mackie´s and NS10´s, is like saying its somewhere between heaven and earth, well init?

genelic... thats nasty  

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Message 9/19                 Date: 23-Oct-01  @  05:57 PM   -   RE: MONITORS?

bedwyr

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genelecs are seen as 'over bright' in the uk though, ur right about subwoofers, maybe they give u a false sense of 'fullness' (i'm sure most people here (&me) care more about bottom end than any other frequency (ooh, how presumptious!)) but at the end of the day (all other cliches accepted) u can mix on any old box *as long as you know what your doing*, my next door neighbour mixed on those tiny jbls and grooverider&fabio still played his tune on radio1...

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Message 10/19                 Date: 23-Oct-01  @  07:23 PM   -   RE: MONITORS?

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what?.. the little control_1's ?.. they are ok but pretty sharp, you gotta get used to them like all nearfeilds, and actualy Tandy/Radio-Shack do a very similar speaker, in a little metal cabinet, same size as the Control_1 & a similar sound which make VERY good cheap nearfeilds, it's the one with like a perforated metal grill with round tiny holes drilled in the matel sheet covering the speakers. I think it comes inodised black or silver.

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