Back to life!

Hi there wherever you are ....
I'm back and still in the process of choosing the appropriate monitors.
I'm also busy recording......(and again Focusrite rocks!)
so posting my demo will be postponed after the mastering of the tracks......
that should be done on the Mackie MR8.....yes ladies and gents we finally have a winner.
But again the question is why!?
let's clear it in bullet points


  •  budget: <450 Euro
  •  brand (would you buy a crap brand?)
  •  range (we will speak about that next)
  •  flexibility




Good


I think budget and brand are clear  but let's speak about range:
let's speak about Hertz.......


In my vision in order to be able to mix properly a track we need to 
be able to recognize any trash coming from our recording in between the human audible frequencies......
that are:


Frequency:



20 Hz - 20,000 Hz
(corresponds with pitch)
Intensity:
10-12 - 10 watts/m2
(0 to 130 decibels)
Pressure:
2 x 10-5 - 60 Newtons/m2
2 x 10-10 - .0006 atmospheres

someone would say that in that case you would need a sub woofer......right?
My answer is it depends, because the final hearing experience in the car or on the radio has a different purpose from the hearing experience on the reference monitors (you always need to re-listen on cheap speakers and crap headphones..... to confirm what the rest of the people will listen to....).
The hearing experience on the monitors speakers need to help you doing the correct adjustments on: 

  • level spikes (decibel spikes can occur at frequencies outside the reproducing capabilities of small and hi-fi speakers and then filtering inside the final mix unwanted with obvious consequences)
  • bass level (bass is important need to be in the right amount and tight; otherwise you will create a muddy mix....that's why we need at least an 8" driver in our boxes.....)
  • eliminating unwanted noises
So in order to do that we need to know the frequencies cut we would like to have for our mix.....example:

you do R&B and you want to record super low sounds? you probably need a subwoofer in order to have them under control.....

you have a band? then your needs might be cheaper:
consider a
Bass guitar (normally the instrument with the lower tuning......)
Low E on a 4 string bass is usually about 41Hz, and the low B on a 5 string around 31Hz fundamentals. Figure another 3 octaves in fundamentals plus another octave or two in harmonics, and the range is actually quite wide as is been able to hit on the other side the 5 Khz !!
Consider also that the for the generalized kick drum application, the “thump” is usually realized in the 60 Hz to 100 Hz range!!

Conclusions? if you're in a band or do that kind of music you need at least a box that can reproduce frequentis in between the 35/40Hz and the 20.000......

any driver below the 8 inch can't do that.............






(to be continued....)




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