monitors only for producing?

bethere · Post by **bethere** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 8:10 pm

Do you guys listen to music on your monitors or do you have other speakers for non-production listening? I'm just curious because my normal speakers broke a few days ago, so I've gotta get new ones. I'm really new to producing and therefor would probably hold off with buying monitors, if I could only use them for producing.

setspeed · Post by **setspeed** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 8:12 pm

yeah i listen to stuff on my monitors. they're not as nice as hifi speakers but you get used to them...

Disco Nutter · Post by **Disco Nutter** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 8:32 pm

I love listening to my monitors actually

djshiva · Post by **djshiva** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 8:33 pm

i use my monitors both for production and listening. admittedly mine are pretty nice on the ears (event project studio 8s).

think of it this way, if you get used to listening to music on the monitors that you use for production, you will have a much better idea of how things should sound in your production. you will hear how things are eqed and mixed on the tunes you like best, and that will give you the ability to hear where you want them to be in your own tunes.

best thing for your production, IMO.

blip · Post by **blip** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 12:22 pm

I listen to and produce music mostly on headphones...
How weird is that?

drkovorkian · Post by **drkovorkian** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 4:55 pm

some monitors are really raw and are designed for recording more than mixing, as you need to be able to hear every tiny little detail. There is no detriment to listening to music on raw speakrers, unless of course their is an inherent problem with what you are listening to and it is not balanced ect. As the guy above said getting used to your monitors is a really good thing to do. Personally i prefer to hear music with as little colouration from my system as possible, its how speakers should be and anything else is baisically a gimic to conn people into buying stuff. If ya on a budget i would reccomend a pair of old tannoy reveals (active), you can get em on e-bay for about £100.

Demos · Post by **Demos** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 5:07 pm

Blip wrote:I listen to and produce music mostly on headphones...
How weird is that?

i do this too. my neighbors complain to the council whenever i listen to/make music so now i'm accustom to headphones, although my headphones broke so now i'm stuck with ipod headphones, not good for making music

DZA · Post by **DZA** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 5:09 pm

Demos wrote:
Blip wrote:I listen to and produce music mostly on headphones...
How weird is that?
i do this too. my neighbors complain to the council whenever i listen to/make music so now i'm accustom to headphones, although my headphones broke so now i'm stuck with ipod headphones, not good for making music

ipod headphones i wouldnt even try to use them they are so fucking waste good luck to you on that one

blip · Post by **blip** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 5:13 pm

I think the only good point of those is as a survival test for your production. If it sounds good on Ipod headphones...

Demos · Post by **Demos** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 5:17 pm

The_Dza88 wrote:
Demos wrote:
Blip wrote:I listen to and produce music mostly on headphones...
How weird is that?
i do this too. my neighbors complain to the council whenever i listen to/make music so now i'm accustom to headphones, although my headphones broke so now i'm stuck with ipod headphones, not good for making music
ipod headphones i wouldnt even try to use them they are so fucking waste good luck to you on that one

LOL i know they're so fucking shit, but its that or nothing, till i can afford some decent headphones. believe me its a nightmare

casioboy · Post by **casioboy** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 5:24 pm

I use my monitors for everything (alesis m1 active mk2) and i love the way they sound. No more HI - FI here.

FSTZ1 · Post by **FSTZ1** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 5:50 pm

same here

I have event 20/20's and they are nice on my ears

pyre · Post by **pyre** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 7:57 pm

m8 monitors are the best way for quality and for being able to hear every detail within the mix.

i had some m-audio bx8a's but recently upgraded to some dynaudio BM5A's and the diference is MASSIVE (price too sadly) if you do come round to buying some buy a decent pair like KRK rp6's, tannoy reveals or spend abit more and get some dynaudios or genelecs, they'l last and sound amazing!

FSTZ1 · Post by **FSTZ1** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 8:00 pm

Pyre wrote:i had some m-audio bx8a's but recently upgraded to some dynaudio BM5A's and the diference is MASSIVE

you went from a yugo to the BMW!

manray · Post by **manray** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 10:18 am

Blip wrote:If it sounds good on Ipod headphones...

Congratulations but this is DUBSTEP not pop music. The clarity of the bass is one of the most important things and headphones are a very bad measure of bass.

If you can get your tunes sounding good on a variety of systems, from your monitors to your PC speakers to your car stereo then you are doing well. Personally I find that my car gives me an excellent feel for how well mastered a track is but that's only second to my monitors. If it sounds good on my monitors then blammo it's done.

blip · Post by **blip** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 10:35 am

manray wrote:If you can get your tunes sounding good on a variety of systems, from your monitors to your PC speakers to your car stereo

... and your Ipod headphones. We actually mean the SAME thing.

There are headphones and headphones. You will get a lot more bass out of an Sennheiser HD25 than a standard computer speaker.

james fox · Post by **james fox** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 10:57 am

headphones are for referencing only - if you feel confident enough to ignore years and years of research + knowledge, then more power to you. i'll stick with the monitors though

lojik · Post by **lojik** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 4:40 pm

Blip wrote:
manray wrote:If you can get your tunes sounding good on a variety of systems, from your monitors to your PC speakers to your car stereo
... and your Ipod headphones. We actually mean the SAME thing.

There are headphones and headphones. You will get a lot more bass out of an Sennheiser HD25 than a standard computer speaker.

I think the point is if you listen on iPod headphones there is no way you will be able to mix sub bass unless you..........actually there is no way, its impossible.

On topic, I find Hi-Fi speakers muddy and bass heavy so I prefer listening to music on my monitors, but without a separate sub I do tweak the bass up a bit for normal listening.

blip · Post by **blip** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 4:49 pm

Please, please, please, people.
Let me make it clear, because obviously I haven't...

If you can make a mix sound good even on shitty Ipod headphones, that's a great achievement. Obviously there will be no bass or even more obviously, sub bass there. I never suggested that they should be your main reference, or that you should mix with them.

DZA · Post by **DZA** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 4:56 pm

i normal do my production and mix down on these do the job i suppose

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