My monitors BLOW,curious about yours too!

[ernstinen]

Quote:I use some OLD (like '94) Alesis Monitor Ones with some whatever amp as my secondary "balance" monitors. My main speaks are the Focal Twin 6 BE... they're pretty great, but not cheap, but they're probably the most important piece of gear in the room, so I figured it was worth it. For a grand less the Focal Solo 6s are GREAT monitors for the money. Wow, Stick ol' bean, those Focal Twins look awesome! You must have a fairly large room to handle those babies. That's some serious hardware you've got there! Made in France!? Oui?http://www.audiolot.com/proaudio/sales/ ... id=181Nick, your Blue Sky's may have been trumped by our buddy Stick! Ern

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Quote:Quote:I use some OLD (like '94) Alesis Monitor Ones with some whatever amp as my secondary "balance" monitors. My main speaks are the Focal Twin 6 BE... they're pretty great, but not cheap, but they're probably the most important piece of gear in the room, so I figured it was worth it. For a grand less the Focal Solo 6s are GREAT monitors for the money. Wow, Stick ol' bean, those Focal Twins look awesome! You must have a fairly large room to handle those babies. That's some serious hardware you've got there! Made in France!? Oui?http://www.audiolot.com/proaudio/sales/ ... id=181Nick, your Blue Sky's may have been trumped by our buddy Stick! Ern Yeah, my room is nice sized (old pics, before I got the Focals)... roughly 12x17, with soundproofed, angled walls, and bass traps, etc. Think of it like a jacked-up home office... ha ha! (Good tax write-off too!)I went for the Twins over the Solos because I'd read that the mid range clarity was a little better with the second woofer. Otherwise, the two models are pretty similar. They're really nice speakers. Not pretty or flattering at all, but that's not what you want when you're trying to get a mix to translate. And besides, the wood matches my studio very nicely.

[ernstinen]

Quote:[Yeah, my room is nice sized (old pics, before I got the Focals)... roughly 12x17, with soundproofed, angled walls, and bass traps, etc. Think of it like a jacked-up home office... ha ha! (Good tax write-off too!)Man, Stick, that is a NICE studio you've got! (Makes mine look like a guest house --- er, it IS a guest house! ). I like your website, too. Good job! --- Say, if you put me in your will, I'll take your Steinway upon your demise. Ern

[stick]

Quote:Quote:[Yeah, my room is nice sized (old pics, before I got the Focals)... roughly 12x17, with soundproofed, angled walls, and bass traps, etc. Think of it like a jacked-up home office... ha ha! (Good tax write-off too!)Man, Stick, that is a NICE studio you've got! (Makes mine look like a guest house --- er, it IS a guest house! ). I like your website, too. Good job! --- Say, if you put me in your will, I'll take your Steinway upon your demise. Ern HA HA! Unfortunately, my 2 sons probably will be slightly higher on the list for the Steinway. It is a pretty cool piano though! Tons of vibe...

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Quote:Quote:I've got multiple pairs of monitors I'm using.Me too, Ibanez. I've got a pair of powered KRK V6s which I like pretty well, BUT when I really want a mix to translate to the outside world, I still go to my vintage Yamaha NS-10Ms powered by an old Marantz amp. The midrange is so accurate, but their claim that they go down to 50 hz or so is b.s. I turn on some customized 3-ways with 15" woofers to check the bottom end. The two together work really well for me. --- After I get the mix sounding pretty close, I turn on a pair of "home" audiophile Definitive Technology speakers and listen to those; my Sennheiser headphones; the car stereo; and my home system with Polk Monitor 40's (which are REAL nice for the $) with a subwoofer and 4 Bose cubes. Then I might play the mix through my Bose Wave bedroom "clock radio," which has LOTS of bottom end --- don't know how Dr. Bose does it. It does have an "AM radio" setting which rolls off some of the lows. If the bottom is too muddy, I'll go back to the studio and tweak some more. --- Whew! There, ya have all my secrets! Ern Too funny Dude.... still mixing on the home speakers (Bose) but my mix routine is Alesis headphones/stereo to get the mix.... then I check it on the computer speakers (Gateway), the clock radio.... the surround sound system in the living room but the deal breakers are the cars... gotta sound good in both cars or I can't bless the mix.... Geo

[ernstinen]

Quote:Stick, Kalamazoo!KALAMAZOO! --- My ol' stomping grounds. Went to WMU, married my wife there, and we lived on West Lake in Portage! I was back there in December to see my bro who lives right by Gull Lake --- I grew up in St. Joseph on Lake Michigan.My wife's sister lives in Midland ---Its' a small world (afterall --- ).Ern

[nickfever]

That's crazy.

[ragani]

Quote:That's crazy. That is crazy-- I also have relatives in Kalamazoo and in Muskegon (though only a few left there)... And my husband did post-graduate work at MSU!

[ernstinen]

Quote:I went to EMU: )Ha! I lived just outside of Ypsilanti in a "band house" when I was a young buck. I really like the Ann Arbor area, too.One of the BEST concerts I've ever seen was "YES" at EMU at the stadium outside. (What year it was, I can't remember because someone gave me a, er, little pill before the concert). God, were they amazing! Plus the light show and staging was the best I've ever seen, before or since. Maybe that was because of my state-of-mind that night , but I'll never forget the incredible musicianship. Patrick Moraz was on keyboards, and he just smoked Wakeman on his solos. What a show!Ern

[ernstinen]

Quote:I have fond memories of Western. The piano practice rooms, sneaking into the "good" pianos, dorm food, great acoustics in the Recital Hall, bad acoustics in the recording studio, great life and musical experience traveling and playing with Gold Company (a great vocal jazz group), marching in the Bronco Band for a year. Of the many concerts I saw in and around K-zoo: Tower of Power up close and personal in the 250 seat Recital Hall. LOUD. Michael W. Smith at the hockey arena... DC Talk opened when nobody knew who they were. A bunch of symphony concerts/Broadway shows in Miller Auditorium. TONs of "required" recitals and concerts for music major credit... I always enjoyed hearing them. Aaah, good times. No comment on some of the girls I dated. Ah, the girls --- What a party school! And, lots of great musicians came out of Kalamzoo, it seems! --- Hey Stick, was Ramon Zupko still teaching composition when you were there? He wrote some cool stuff. Kind of a strange dude, though. He had this "mad scientist" electronic synth workshop down in the basement on East Campus, I believe, and had some OLD synthesizers --- I'm talking phone cables sticking out of huge patch bays! --- I was REALLY into Hendrix at the time, and turned on Zupko to some live stuff like "Purple Haze" recorded at Woodstock.Zupko listened for awhile, and in his German accent said "Ach, I can make dese soundz wit da synthesizer!" I said "Maybe, but it would take you a month to program it, and Hendrix is doing it in REAL TIME!" --- "Ach, just white noize, harrumph!" I told him to BLOW himself, er, check out BLOW monitors (to get back to the topic at hand ).Ern