Hey Jim…..What type of speakers should I get for my home studio?
Well now we’re into a debatable topic.
In my opinion when you are purchasing speakers/monitors for your home recording studio, you’re looking to find speakers that fit your minds ear. In other words, when you play a mix you’ve heard a thousand times and everything sounds as your mind remembers it sounding, then you’re close. If you put on something you know, and start hearing things you never heard before, that’s probably not the best speakers to mix on.
You see, your goal is to find speakers that are neutral enough, that when you take your mix elsewhere e.g. (your car, Headphones, other stereos, P.a.’s etc.) The mix should sound similar on all speakers.
Example… If you buy really bass heavy speakers cause you love bass, then you go home and mix on them, your mix’s probably won’t have the same amount of bass in the rest of the world. Make sense?
So my advice is to listen to speakers either at a store or a studio, and put on music that you’re extrememly familiar with. If The mix sound like you remember it , your looking at a pair of speakers that may fit you. Everyone hears things differently, so a $400 pair of speakers may be better for you than a $4000 pair and vice-versa.
Jim, do you ever use headphones to mix? Typically,I don’t use headphone’s for levels or frequency evaluation, but I do use them for checking Reverb and delay panning and making sure the left and right volume returns are balanced on certain things.
Hope this helps….ROCK FULLY…..
