My monitors BLOW,curious about yours too!

[ernstinen]

Quote:Oh yes! I took acoustics from Zupko! Yeah, were you there before the new (at the time) Dalton Center? Another irony here, Stick --- the ONLY class I flunked in my life was "Acoustics" taught by Zupko! That's because I stopped going because it was early in the morning, and partying was more important at the time. --- Oh, yes, and I forgot to drop it before the due date. Hmmm --- Since I'm as old as dirt, the Dalton Center was built after I left WMU. What's funny about that, though --- I've been in touch with Carl Doubleday for years, have sent him scores and recordings of some of my orchestral stuff, and when I started getting some recordings by the Bulgarian Philharmonic and the Czech Philharmonic, ol' Carl put all my stuff in the Music School "Alumni Hall of Fame" display case. --- After awhile, he emailed me and said "John, I've been looking into our alumni files trying to find when out when you graduated, and I can't figure out when that was."I emailed back and said "Carl, that's because I was a DROPOUT! I left school to play rock and roll. Couldn't stand those elitist snobby music students! HeHeh!"He about choked on his oat bran. Ern

[ernstinen]

Apr 17, 2008, 1:41am, silvercord wrote:Stick, Ern...ever heard of Caro, Michigan??: )Yup, it's up in the Thumb east of Bay City/Saginaw. My sister-in-law lives a hop, skip & a jump west of there in Midland.Hey Geoff & Stick --- ever heard of HELL Michigan??Bwahahahaha! --- Hell DOES freeze over:Ern

[ibanez468]

Yeah, and the world inside too, if ya' catch my drift.

[devin]

Ibanez, I missed the shot with the lava lamp? P.S. Back to the thread title...I'm using Paradigm Atom-5's for nearfield, AKG 271 & AKG 240 for headphones, and a wall of home-made "not-quite-junk" speakers for mixing.

[ibanez468]

Hey dev,No lava lamp. Flat screen monitor (I think that's what you speak of). And yeah, gonna' need some pics of these home-made "not-quite-junk" speakers, and some plans on how ta' build too! I-468

[nickfever]

Apr 12, 2008, 9:11am, ragani wrote: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! Raags, my grandparents were from WI

[milfus]

Apr 6, 2008, 6:23pm, silvercord wrote:BLOW 5s, by Infrasonic, a subdivision of Sammick in KoreaFunny name eh? Sammick should have had a westerner advise with the naming of their products I got these puppies before any pro magizine, or online site hasreviewed them. They were not expensive since i bought themhere in Koreahere's the link for specs. http://www.infra-sonic.com/page/blow5.htmlAs they are my first monitors, I am not sure how they rate toothers of its class and size..but i dig them allot...the salesmantold me they were better for "classical" mixing,just curious to see if any of you have heard tell of them?and i invite y'all to tell me about your monitors, i would love toknow what you mix yur stuff on, as im a sucker for audio tech nerdyness!nah they look like a nice set man, dont worry about the lower benchmarks, ive heard em and they arent lacking, see most of those spec sheets are subjective, theres no standards for the tests so they can use an accoustic room or other shady stuff to basicly get whatever they want for specs, swhy you should always test listen before, you can get some good tunage out of em, if you are a geek and use a meter you can even chart the response and just get a rack eq, and permanently counter the freq to make it flat, well as flat as the room allows, they have good drivers in the cones and good articulation, so you are pretty much set, that and they look pretty sexy, that always gets bonus points

[silvercord]

Devin, awesome~thanks for showing us your studio!that place would be SOO my bat cave: )and cool white board...you could make notes clear to see forsessions with the band.ahh how i wish i had a lava lamp!(hint Santa!) ((does Santa readtaxi community posts??)and ...Spock...must ...listen....with...no...interruptions.....mustlock door...so Klingons won't intrude....

[geo]

Hey guys I just got a pair of M Audio monitors and they are awesome!!!! I'm sure there are better ones out there but I'm knocking serious time off of my mixing .... can't believe I waited this long ... oh well...Peace, Geo

[ernstinen]

May 14, 2008, 3:27am, devin wrote:does anyone use crappy monitors on purpose when mixing?I've never owned a pair, but Auratones were used for years as "crappy monitors." Still are, I believe. Mazz, you still got yours? --- Auratones were, I think, a single 5" speaker used to compare mixes for TV, especially the midrange.HEY! Come to think of it, I have a pair of Bose 141s in the garage which I think have a single driver in them. They actually sound pretty good when you turn up the bass and treble on your preamp a bit! --- Hmmm --- They're going to the studio TODAY! Ern