If you plug your headphones in straight to soundcard its really annoying as you have to change volume in windows all the time

Speakers that have treble bass on, never heard of them, but my amp has them on, for listening to stuff i always have them turned up but for producing i just switch tone button off, which just puts out the deafault for both treble and bass

i have full treble and 50% bass on mine, just sounds best that way. probably not ideal, but i know how stuff is supposed to sound coming out of them. i have 4 speakers + subwoofer, no room for proper monitors

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unfortunately you don't want speakers that have anything other then one important feature...the ON button.

monitors are designed to give you the most accurate representation of sound, so obviously with these knobs you don't know what is accurate and what isn't. i don't think its possible to recommend a setting. all you can do is save your money for better monitors. for now the temporary fix i guess would be use your headphones. but headphones can get frustrating, because if you get used to them to much, its hard to get used to speakers again, because headphones usually overemphasize certain areas in the sound (ie. the low frequencies on some)

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Originally posted by djbruuen unfortunately you don't want speakers that have anything other then one important feature...the ON button. monitors are designed to give you the most accurate representation of sound, so obviously with these knobs you don't know what is accurate and what isn't. i don't think its possible to recommend a setting. all you can do is save your money for better monitors. for now the temporary fix i guess would be use your headphones. but headphones can get frustrating, because if you get used to them to much, its hard to get used to speakers again, because headphones usually overemphasize certain areas in the sound (ie. the low frequencies on some)

That's why you get good headphones, like the AKG 240DF studio monitors, or if you've really got money to blow, Sennheiser HD600 or better. My production quality jumped up 10 points when I started with my AKGs (i.e. from super-crap to normal crap ).

He's right though, if speakers even HAVE "treble/bass" knobs then they're going to be terrible as studio monitors. Your best bet would be to buy or borrow some good headphones and calibrate the sound by ear. Even that may not be a perfect solution though, because chintzy speakers may have a very different frequency response at different volumes. In that case you'll want to calibrate it with the volume somewhere in the midrange, like what you'd have it set at after you've already been listening for an hour or two.

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