Looking for suggestions for studio monitors

[Len911]

Fwiw, I have Yamaha NS-10M Studios and a Yamaha P2100 amp.

I bought the monitors new and the amp used. I found the receipt for the amp, 1994! So that must have been the same year I bought the monitors.

For good or bad, I use headphones.

Looking through old receipts, I noticed that I bought the API gear through Westlake Audio. Small world,lol!

[cosmicdolphin]

Really, the upshot is, you can learn to mix on just about anything, if you do a lot of critical listening to good reference material. I happen to agree with Mike Senior (and many others) about ported enclosures; trouble is, almost nobody makes sealed-cabinet monitors for anything under a thousand a pair, yet I notice there are plenty of folks with cheaper systems who manage to get an awful lot of work done.

Big +1 on this...you can mix on virtually anything as long as you learn how it translates once it leaves your studio

I also think "If you can't hear it properly you can't mix it"....many people produce mixes that are coloured by their mix enviroment.

6 or 7 years ago I made my own acoustic treatment based on articles in Sound on Sound, and treated the room with the help of a special mic for measuring acoustics, some free analysis software and some guys on a forum who helped me interpret the results and suggested tweaks. One of these guys was Ethan Winer who owns a well known acoustic treatment company. Suffice to say after building my absorbers and buying a large box of Auralex foam and treating the bass in my little studio it is a pretty nuetral sounding place to mix in without spending crazy money ( though I did spend about half what my monitors cost )

Since then I've been pointed to this article which is quite a similar thing to what I did and recommend anyone take a look:-

http://www.mixedbymarcmozart.com/2014/1 ... tto-style/

After all that I still found some of my mix skills were not as good as I would like, so I hooked up with Mike Senior on & off over a couple of years ( at a cost BTW ) and he basically critiqued mixes that I'd done , pulled them apart in a very professional manner and advised me where I was going wrong...I should add that this was AFTER reading his book and getting some decent comments in a competition he judged. Then I sent him the remixes to see if I had improved it.

I must say that this mentoring/feedback was far more valuable than anything else for fixing my issues and when I finally sent him something that he said was "very close " to a commercial release I felt like I'd truly graduated!

For the record I have Adam A7s , an Avantone Mixcube ( read Mix Secrets for The Small Studio as to why this is a valuable tool ) and also a ghetto blaster type thing wired up to my audio interface that I can switch on as well as a decent pair of Sennheiser cans.

Each thing gives me a different perspective on the mix, and I do a lot of referencing as well with commercial tracks before , during and after the mix...Oh and referencing is free ! How cool is that?

Mark