we got any monitor speaker users?

slay · Post by **slay** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 7:03 pm

iv been using my ms 16's for about 3 years and they are great especially for the price. http://www.behringer.com/ms16/index.cfm?lang=ENG

But im thinking of getting something alittle more beefy so i went out looking today and i couldn't find any bigger monitors within a reasonable price. The place i went to seemed to have mine (85-100$) then all the other's were like 800 plus.

Any suggestions or other monitor users?

Pfl?yd · Post by **Pfl?yd** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 8:06 pm

What do you mean "beefy"?

You monitors shouldn't sound like anything, they should sound as transparent as possible. You use monitors to find stuff, not to just to listen casually.

slay · Post by **slay** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 8:11 pm

i mean i want to be able to turn them up louder without the bass sounding like shit.

What do you mean you use monitors to find stuff?

Pfl?yd · Post by **Pfl?yd** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 8:15 pm

slay wrote:i mean i want to be able to turn them up louder without the bass sounding like shit.

What do you mean you use monitors to find stuff?

The point of studio monitors is to hear things clearly without fatiguing your ears or artificially coloring the sound with the kinds of frequency accentuation you hear when you listen to a song on a stereo. That means you don't want them to be overly loud or overly bassy or overly anything. How loud do you need them to be? Maybe the problem is with the room you are listening to them in?

slay · Post by **slay** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 8:23 pm

Pfl?yd wrote:
slay wrote:i mean i want to be able to turn them up louder without the bass sounding like shit.

What do you mean you use monitors to find stuff?
The point of studio monitors is to hear things clearly without fatiguing your ears or artificially coloring the sound with the kinds of frequency accentuation you hear when you listen to a song on a stereo. That means you don't want them to be overly loud or overly bassy or overly anything. How loud do you need them to be? Maybe the problem is with the room you are listening to them in?

Thats exactly why i use them, amping the exact tones from my pod without anything to change the sound.

Now when i play it fairly quiet i have the bass and treble maxed on the monitors which give a great sound to record or just jam out, but when i start to crank them up with the bass/trble maxed it starts to give that farting sound because of all the bass so i have to either turn the bass all the way down on my pod or turn it down on the monitors ( i usually do it on the monitors) but doing that im not getting that nice tone at a high volume. So having bigger monitors would let me get more volume with the bass/treble maxed correct?

i hope that made sense..

it's not like i need to keep up with a drummer or anything just sometimes i want alittle more volume to get into jamming alittle more.

Pfl?yd · Post by **Pfl?yd** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 9:02 pm

Oh, you're using them to amplify you actually playing?

slay · Post by **slay** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 9:18 pm

correct

maybe i should just get an actual amp

Pfl?yd · Post by **Pfl?yd** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 9:21 pm

slay wrote:correct

maybe i should just get an actual amp

Definitely. Studio monitors are not going to be sufficient no matter what.

Acid Flashbakc · Post by **Acid Flashbakc** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 2:20 am

slay wrote:correct

maybe i should just get an actual amp

yea man get an amp. for practice i use my pod as well but i send it to a cheap little marshall 15w junkie that was only like 120$. its perfect for when i just wanna go through shit and not lug the stack around

slay · Post by **slay** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 7:48 pm

this is what my recordings sound like

http://www.zshare.net/audio/5349137241a851be/

ignore the out of time playing and focus on the quality of the tone/distortion etc.. doesn't sound so bad does it?