8 Feb
2005
8 Feb
'05
3:22 a.m.
On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 09:55:50PM -0800, Florin Andrei wrote:
Whenever possible, listening should be performed on
good-quality
loudspeakers. "Studio monitors" is the term used to describe
professional-grade speaker systems, which are highly recommended for any
serious music studio work. They're typically expensive and fussy
(especially the near-field ones, which must be used in a certain strict
way w.r.t. their relative positioning, the positioning of the pair
w.r.t. the room, and the positioning of the listener's head to the whole
thing), but well worth the trouble.
Would studio monitors be preferable to speakers designed for public
performance. In other words if a band or artist has a sound system
for public performances with high quality amplifiers and speakers,
is it acceptable to use the same speakers in the studio if they do their
own recording, or would they be better off buying studio monitors for
this purpose? This is assuming their sound system isn't some gargantuan
system that would be unwieldy to use in the studio, but instead is a
small, but high quality system and speakers that a small band or solo
artist would use.
Chuck