Studio monitors are speakers or a speaker system most used into recording studios, mixing, mastering, radio, TV, and more. The sound engineer shapes the sound depending on what he hears in his audio monitors, making sure that the audio material can be heard properly on any audio system or as many audio systems.

A studio room must be treated with absorption panels that absorb much of the sound that reaches them, and reflecting a (very) small part of it, trapping bass (bass traps) used in corners of the room to absorb the low frequencies especially bass accumulates in corners, diffusion panels, which dissipate sound, it scatters in different directions, but does not reflect such as a straight wall.

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Good way to promote your stuff here on Audiosex, huh?
These beginner tips are good for a beginner, but posting it without a request it seems like your own interest about promoting your website. I also don't remember you to ever help/respond on somebody's treads/problems/topics or requests here. As long as you have a website about music production, at least you could help people here on this forum with a answer or two for their problem as long as you behave like a guru with a prod. tips website.

 

I could copy the entire article here, but then we deal with duplicate content, it is important for both the forum and for my website to not do this.

 

oh Really? You're funny mate.

I told you, at least you, as a prod. guru you can help people here on their topics in exchange for your promoting. Or else you did your Audiosex account just for your own promoting interests... Whatever... But i told you... at least you can give some help/answers here for the people's needs.

 

Hes not breaking any rules.. all self promotion is shameless but if it helps someone then whats the harm?

 

The most important help is the one you get when you actually ask for. Try to heal people when they're sick, not when they're healthy
It's that bad to ask him to support this forum as long as he found it useful for his promotions? I don't try to bash him, just to make it more grateful to the forum and it's moderators, because, i don't know if you saw, but sometimes people like Catalyst or other moderators try to split up their critical time to answer on people's treads, to help us all, when we can actually have their back and try to save their critical time, because belive me, they split up their time crazy, just to be able to help us. And as long as this guy is kinda Guru of music production also owning his own dedicated website, then he can give some help in exchange. I really behave so bad just because i ask for this?

 

Prevention is the best cure..


I get what your saying but you do come across a bit forceful (if that's the right word?). As for mentioning the work the mods do, well we all know this and are well aware and grateful.. Tbh I don't know why you even mentioned them, or how it's relevant. It's like your just name dropping and I think you're being a little bit ott.

If he'd just signed up to ask for votes then by all means fire away but this may actually help somebody.

 

You talk about relevance, but before writing "prevention is the best cure" did you read what it's his topic's title? Does that have something to do with prevention? because monitoring and acoustics are not something about caution, to be able to prevent it. It seems just a helpful kinda "addon" informations for a producer's arsenal when it comes about monitoring and acoustics, but think about the present and actual opened topics, if he signed on this forum with any interests for it, then he could really risk his life if he's gonna give a hand of help? Also he seems to be a advanced "teacher", so do you think that he would really sweat if he would show some forum-relad activity and not only self interests?

 

I behave this way just because i care about the forum, and.. logically, when you sign up on a forum... you should show some forum-related activity too, right? At least if he would've been asking for help, then i wouldn't have nothing to disagree with, i would just help delighted. If he was willing to help so bad, then he could've "copy-paste" the articale here, without routing the people outside of this forum.

 

Now you're just being over dramatic. The original post already has 1 thanks from a regular and 10 in total from just 17 posts. He's obviously helping somebody so I think you just need to let this one go.

 

I do not understand why it's so much ruckus, some people are very frustrated. I just posted an article summary and the official page to not make duplicate content over the web, you want to read it just click, no, do something else. Do not sell anything, do not ask anything from anyone, i don't promise you anything. Nobody was born learned.

 

That's right Lord Xsze! (that's why i debated above, because he didn't posted the full tread(with the excuse of duplication) routing the people outside the forum for something that they could easely read here at the same level and he could leave the website adress at the end of the post if he wouldn't just serve his very own purpouses and interests.)

 

You don't have to sell something, ask for something or promise something, as long as our presence on your website is what you actually seek. We're not that stupid bro.

 

someone pass me the bucket

 

Interesting....

 

Could this be a good year to ask about what is the difference between active monitors and passive monitors because i shall be purchasing a pair shortly.
the reason i say good year is because evorax talks about treads i hope i haven't broken any rules with this reply.

 

The difference between active and passive monitors?

For the most part of my life I used passive monitors. Never again. Well, not at the studio at least, except for the unavoidable pair of full-range speaker cubes used for mid range frequencies checkup.

On a more serious note, proper active monitors have amps in them that make sure that the frequency response and THD of the speakers is optimal. It is hard, if not impossible, to accomplish that kind of a match by pairing speakers and amplifiers after your preference, even when you're not really a newbie in the field. In the end, you also don't have to worry about the speaker cables because any good XLR cable that is not broken will do. I do use proper Klotz cables for that but that's only because I'm fucked in the head perfectionist. Still, they're not at all nearly as expensive as some speaker cables can be. It's madness.

On a more technical note, proper active speakers use active crossovers, and active crossovers are better at keeping the frequencies flat. You know a crossover between high-mid-low speakers? Passive one is usually not really good, but it can be good in some really expensive passive speakers. However, it is just better and easier to go with the active crossover. Some manufacturers even integrate DSP EQ correction in their speakers, like JBL, and you can't do that with passive speakers. Not that I believe much in DSP EQ correction, though. I think matched amps are fine and active crossovers are fine, but DSP and DA converters is taking it a bit too far.

Anyway, in other words you can be sure that active speakers give you a better and more flat audio image by using custom made amps and active crossovers.

So why do many popular mastering engineers use expensive passive speakers and expensive amps? Because they're old buggers believing in sky fairies, who like to buy gold cables and everything that is expensive enough to create a hoax around them about their "exclusivity" and "golden ears", and they know that most of the people will buy that crap, that's why.

About the only passive speakers I would ever use are Lipinsky speakers, because they come with their own amp. When speakers come with their own amplifier you can be sure they're matched properly.

Cheers!

 

Nice post mate and yea', that's right, the big "guys" try to show off their prestige by complicating themselves with expensive, but also "outdated" and difficult studio equippment chains which gives them the "this is the real deal" tag on their neck. There's ALOT of succesful producers/sound engineers who left behind the "passive" fashion, using the less "headache" ACTIVE equippemnt, making great records with just humbleness and determination.