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Posted: **Sun Jan 14, 2007 2:40 am**

sapphic_beats wrote:i love my event project studio 8 monitors. i listened to a ton of monitors after a friend lent me these, and i hated them all. lucky for me he decided to sell them to me.

the KRKs are great for hearing the frequencies in the mix (which, i admit is what monitors are for), but they make my ears want to cry. i tested tunes mixed on my Events on the KRKs and they definitely told me where everything sat in the mix. But they also told me that my Events did the trick perfectly and mine didn't make me want to stick painkillers in my eardrums after a long session.

for a lower priced monitor from event, there are also these:

http://www.zzounds.com/item--EVEALP5

Yep!!!!!

I have these-
Just make your mix sound balanced and your good to go.

Posted: **Sun Jan 14, 2007 7:45 pm**

Little Boh Peep wrote:
Little Boh Peep wrote:I fell in love with these today. (Tall dark and intelligent, who wouldn't.)
...We ended up getting a pair of Dynaudio BM5As, and I am extremely pleased with them. (Also baking serious cookies for the guy at Guitar Center for the deal he cut us.)

Cool stuff. Dynaudio are definitely my favourite monitors. I prefer them to the sweeter sounding Genelecs.

Posted: **Sun Jan 14, 2007 9:21 pm**

metalboxproducts wrote:
jack sparrow1 wrote:
metalboxproducts wrote:
forensix (mcr) wrote:
metalboxproducts wrote:
Check my mysaz page for beats. Hear for your self
What they're shit then
YEAH YEAH at least mine aren't girls music. You make homo-step..
i love the banter
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Who asked you, you squirrel loving, high sea sailing G-lord. Go and steal some gold from some rich Spaniards... I dare ye....I bet you think your going to be stranded on a dessert island with Miss Nightly don't you? Well, do you know what? That is never going to happen. Ever

oh i see ....an infidel

challenge accepted bum mouth

Posted: **Sun Jan 14, 2007 9:31 pm**

Digital wrote:
jack sparrow1 wrote:
drift wrote:
marty wrote:i'm very satisfied with my pair of alesis m1 active mk2.
i think i paid about € 350 and they're worth every cent.
yeah man, think there around £220 including cables

real good for the price man
i use these

really good for mid range and highs

bass is too much on them tho
Gonna get me some of these.

Anyone recommend a soundcard to go with?

i would not buy these, just for the stupid bass on them!
there is better monitors out these days, i have sum b&w 603's and genelecs, does the trick

Posted: **Sun Jan 14, 2007 9:41 pm**

yo lucky i use the alesis ones in one studio

then upstairs in studio we got 603's

603's are not studio monitors... tho they may sound better they are not a true representation of the sound

they are not flat response

Posted: **Sun Jan 14, 2007 11:10 pm**

LUCKY_STRIKE wrote:
Digital wrote:
jack sparrow1 wrote:
drift wrote:
marty wrote:i'm very satisfied with my pair of alesis m1 active mk2.
i think i paid about € 350 and they're worth every cent.
yeah man, think there around £220 including cables

real good for the price man
i use these

really good for mid range and highs

bass is too much on them tho
Gonna get me some of these.

Anyone recommend a soundcard to go with?

i would not buy these, just for the stupid bass on them!
there is better monitors out these days, i have sum b&w 603's and genelecs, does the trick

Hmmm, I'll check em out.

Safe.

Posted: **Mon Jan 15, 2007 12:28 am**

what would be a good pair at the 800-1100 mark? £?

i've tried dsome adams and dynaudios and they both sound seriously good. proper sub clarity at low, low volumes!

Posted: **Tue Jan 16, 2007 3:11 pm**

Im gonna get some ADAM's me thinks, worth saving and spending more for the low-end clarity. For dubstep this is essential me thinks!

Posted: **Thu Jan 18, 2007 2:06 am**

Toxin wrote:Im gonna get some ADAM's me thinks, worth saving and spending more for the low-end clarity. For dubstep this is essential me thinks!

Way to go. The new Adam A7 are the shit for sure. I'm gonna have to end up on that road my own self one of these days. It's just too good of a thing, those nicely reproduced 50Hz waves.

Posted: **Thu Jan 18, 2007 12:10 pm**

Picking up my Rokit 5's today.

Posted: **Thu Jan 18, 2007 12:45 pm**

sorry dudes but please do not get cheap monitors, the alesis n others give u fake sound. yamaha make the best, ive got a pair ,there not badly priced n they r pretty much industry standard

Posted: **Thu Jan 18, 2007 1:42 pm**

Alright, if you want to spend some £ then fo for:

Dynaudio (just got the M1´s)
KRK (love the V8, the old Model 6000 etc.)
PMC
Genelec

The Yamaha NS10M don´t sound good, but they are industry standard all over the world. They are around £250-400 a pair second hand, and you´ll need a GOOD amp.

Posted: **Thu Jan 18, 2007 7:25 pm**

If you can't spend the $1k for ADAM A7 (see what real folks are saying about them here), then the best thing under a grand seems to be Tascam VL-X5. At $300 a pair, they're certainly a good deal.

Posted: **Thu Jan 18, 2007 7:44 pm**

2000F wrote:Alright, if you want to spend some £ then fo for:

Dynaudio (just got the M1´s)
KRK (love the V8, the old Model 6000 etc.)
PMC
Genelec

The Yamaha NS10M don´t sound good, but they are industry standard all over the world. They are around £250-400 a pair second hand, and you´ll need a GOOD amp.

Yeah, and that's exactly why they are industry standard! They sound fucking terrible. Flat as a wet turd. If you can make something sound good on these, you're a mix god and that's the point.

I've noticed that Yammy are making some new monitors with the white cones, but they're NOT the same thing. They're simply cashing in on the legacy and looks of the thing.

Posted: **Thu Jan 18, 2007 7:55 pm**

two oh one wrote:
2000F wrote:The Yamaha NS10M don´t sound good, but they are industry standard all over the world.
Yeah, and that's exactly why they are industry standard! They sound fucking terrible. Flat as a wet turd.

Amen to wet turd, but as far as flat goes - maybe in the 2k-2.5kHz range.

But yeah, they're definitely good for referencing. Another crap monitor that people use all over the place is the Auratone 5C. Sound terrible, but great for checking mixes. Like the NS10M, they're WAY overpriced used, but there's some new "clones" called Avantone Mixcubes. Great second pair for checking what grandma will hear.

Posted: **Thu Jan 18, 2007 8:37 pm**

I use Alesis Monitor One Mk2's, i think you can pick them up for fairly cheap now, they work brilliantly for me, although they are bass-heavy

Posted: **Thu Jan 18, 2007 9:28 pm**

At some point in the mixing process, I plug my ipod earbuds into the computer and check my track on them. Given the amount of dubstep downloaded as mp3s from Barefiles and Myspace, you should assume alot of people will first hear it, or only hear it, through their ipods and computer speakers.

Posted: **Fri Jan 19, 2007 7:43 am**

Sound tests are largely subjective, so the whole "best monitors" question is moot at the beginning. That said, i have the Wharfdale Diamond Pros, and after hearing Genes and Dynaudios, the difference is well kinda like a corvette to a Ferrari. Not quite a Ferrari, but then I saved $250,000, and stillget plenty of nana. Not to mention we're not scoring orchestral concerts. Dubstep aint exactly rocket science in timbres, lol.

Piss you big money pretty boys and your $100,000 bedrooms!

Posted: **Fri Jan 19, 2007 8:15 am**

sapphic_beats wrote:i love my event project studio 8 monitors. i listened to a ton of monitors after a friend lent me these, and i hated them all. lucky for me he decided to sell them to me.

the KRKs are great for hearing the frequencies in the mix (which, i admit is what monitors are for), but they make my ears want to cry. i tested tunes mixed on my Events on the KRKs and they definitely told me where everything sat in the mix. But they also told me that my Events did the trick perfectly and mine didn't make me want to stick painkillers in my eardrums after a long session.

Read these posts and I am not sure but for about 400 quid do I get the events tr8 or KRK 8 ? or something else for that or less?

Looking for some accurate monitors that won't tire my ears, and that with an EQ can play my decks through clear and loud.

Posted: **Fri Jan 19, 2007 11:45 am**

go for the KRK's on a budget, i've heard nothing but praise fro them from dj's and producers alike.

as for the alesis monitor one mk2's being bass-heavy, literally stick a sock in it. In one of the ports that is. Tightens em up a bit.

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