2 Cheap Monitors or 1 Expensive ?

[Metaltastic]

That's why there's credit cards! Woohoo, debt!

 

[siegfried]

200 dollars is much money for somebody... not everybody lives in rich country...

 

[Ermz]

Good to hear about getting the second speaker, mate. Must've been annoying having the one sitting around there.

I'm still saving up for my pair of Klein & Hummel 0300s... its totally killing me trying to take on enough work to save up those 5 big ones, but hey, all for the love of one's craft...

 

[siegfried]

Moonlapse: I heard that Klein & Hummel 0300s are probably the best nearfield on the market, so I understand you Good luck...

 

[Ermz]

hey siegfried.. they are amazing speakers, no doubt about it. I've never heard anything so accurate and enjoyable to listen to (even as it totally brutalizes the worst aspects of your mixes). However, I hear tell that the Barefoot MM27s and some other speakers are a step up. What this step up would actually be... I can barely even imagine. Plus the fact that they go for $10,000 down here makes them a little prohibitive...

 

[AudioGeekZine]

Just make sure you are aware of the fact that mixing in mono does feel quite different from stereo. But if you get it sounding good there. It will sound great on your other speakers in stereo.

If you mix rock/metal, try the Cardinal Points Mixing approach where you basically pan every mono source either hard L, hard R or Center. Will translate really well in mono and makes mixes really wide and punchy. Doesn't always work, especially if you have a lot of stereo mics, but I use it very often and like it a lot. For more info go here:

http://recforums.prosoundweb.com/index.php/t/13724/0/

Thanks for the reminder about LCR mixing. I've never really paid attention to the method before. There's a thread on The Womb on LCR too.
http://thewombforums.com/showthread.php?t=6524
and
http://thewombforums.com/showthread.php?t=7906


The rest of this thread can lick my nuts

 

[scorpio01169]

is anyone amazed at how close he came to a killer mix with one monitor?

 

[Jarkko Mattheiszen]

is anyone amazed at how close he came to a killer mix with one monitor?

Wasn't that with the Creative 2.1 system?

 

[nwright]

^yes, not the 1 monitor

 

[scorpio01169]

oh i thought he did it with just the one monitor

 

[xFkx]

is anyone amazed at how close he came to a killer mix with one monitor?

Thanks man, i think it sucks so much that i'm completely redoing it