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Re: How is it determined that a monitor is good/accurate?

2009-11-08T16:30:50Z

I agree, which also makes me wonder why people are still using
NS-10's.
-Neb

Re: How is it determined that a monitor is good/accurate?

2009-11-08T16:17:00Z

Right you are, and the progress is damn near astounding. Accuracy now,
in spite of the slop, is several orders of magnitude advanced over the
old daze.
Yep, but still, once you were personally calibrated to the playback
system you were able to deliver mixes that translated well even if there
was stuff in there of which you had no idea. <g>

Re: How is it determined that a monitor is good/accurate?

2009-11-08T15:25:33Z

On Sun, 8 Nov 2009 07:13:28 -0800, "William Sommerwerck"
Just the other day I was travelling with a friend on the London
Underground. we were on our way up the first of two escalators into
one of London's busiest rail terminals when we could just barely hear
some brass band music drifting down from the concourse above. We were

Re: How is it determined that a monitor is good/accurate?

2009-11-08T15:13:28Z

That's debatable. (It would be truer of inexpensive-to-moderately priced
speakers.) Nevertheless, recordings have reached the point where, when
played through really good speakers, they sound a great deal like "the real
thing".
Ultimately (and unfortunately), the question of whether sound reproduction

Re: How is it determined that a monitor is good/accurate?

2009-11-08T15:00:35Z

But by the same token, the best speakers today are _far_ better than the
best speakers of the eighties were.
I learned to mix on Altec 604s which never sounded _anything_ like the
original signal. I play back stuff that I mixed years ago and I hear
all kinds of things that I never noticed then.
--scott

Re: musical biscuits in the mixing bowl

2009-11-08T13:37:49Z

Well thank you, Bob! Prerelease Usenet sales are already up to two
units! This thing could sell in the dozens!!

Re: How is it determined that a monitor is good/accurate?

2009-11-08T13:37:48Z

Some speakers give me a sense of the _reality_ of the sources coming
through them. Some do not. Mind you, I most often deal with what I'll
call "natural" sounds - acoustic instruments, human voices, sounds that
are generated without electrical amplification.
Some years ago at an AES convention on the floor of the large exhibit

Re: How is it determined that a monitor is good/accurate?

2009-11-08T13:36:15Z

The first one you can easily determine with your ears. Listen to the
playback of the vocal with your eyes closed. Does it sound like a real
human being is in front of you, or does it sound like a speaker?
The second one is a book in itself, and that book is "Microphones"
published by Bruel and Kjaer. There are actual primary standards for

Re: Ampex AG-440 voltage question

2009-11-08T13:31:47Z

A: It may not be, but it's MUCH better to be safe than sorry. In a perfect
world, we'd have everything on an isolated circuit anyway. Think of it as
free line filtering.
The major advantage is better regulation, though. The cheapie autotransformer
types aren't so good about that. And if you're going for an industrial

Re: How is it determined that a monitor is good/accurate?

2009-11-08T13:16:34Z

They buy monitors based on what they need to hear in order to make
recordings that others can enjoy. While you'll hear some engineers and
producers talk about walking between the studio and the control room and
hearing exactly the same thing, they're really exaggerating. And when it
comes to mixing a multitrack project that's been overdubbed and fixed

Re: Level adjusting in Auditon and Audacity

2009-11-08T13:11:47Z

Please, what IS this project? Who will be listening to the recording,
and why?
It sure doesn't sound like something that anyone would want to listen to
for
8 hours straight. Why can't you break it up into logical pieces that you can
manage?
Is this simply a product of nobody paying attention to the recording? And if

Re: Level adjusting in Auditon and Audacity

2009-11-08T13:07:05Z

It's the unpaid work that always has the greatest time requirements. The
reason is simple - the "customer" doesn't want to pay what it would cost
to do the job.

Re: Level adjusting in Auditon and Audacity

2009-11-08T12:06:51Z

"Gareth Magennis" <sound.serv...@btconnect.com> wrote in
message news:W8qJm.74712$Ro6.5617@newsfe10.ams2
By all means. But in the gigs I work, there is a pretty clear boundary line
between the prelude and the main show. I guess it is not written in stone
that it *has* to be that way.

Re: How is it determined that a monitor is good/accurate?

2009-11-08T12:04:34Z

Compared to the best or even just good live sound, yes.
Agreed.
There are some basic requirements of a good studio monitor that simply cost
money:
(1) Extended range, especially in the bass
(2) Good dynamic range, perhaps in a larger-than-average and more
absorptive-than-average room
(3) Smooth frequency response

Re: How is it determined that a monitor is good/accurate?

2009-11-08T11:16:15Z

How are either of the above determined, and if so, when pro studios
pay however many multiples of thousands for monitors, I assume there
must be a reason they do so?