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Monitoring Query
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| Felix.Hoo |
ok im a poor chap using 2:1 cheap creative satelite speakers as monitors and creative audigy 2 plat as my soundcard... and it sounded ok...
Just a few minutes ago, i decided to change my monitors... still cheap though.
i changed to my kenwood hifi and speakers as my monitors...
Initially i thought the sound might improve a lil...
To my surprise, its worse... the bass is like so much thinner than my creative speakers and doesnt seems to have much character.
However, some sounds are crystal clear like vocals and swoose effect...
I set the volume to very soft levels as its 3am in the morning. yet i felt my ears feeling very uncomfortable... ie. like ear wax coming out on my right ear + a weird hollow void feeling in my ears, things which i have never encountered with my creative speakers.
My questions are:
1)How come at such relative low volume level. it still causes discomfort and void feeling in my ears?
2)Am i going through a usual phrase like all others when they switch monitors?
Hope someone can enlighten me on this :conf:
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| nhibberd |
Hi Felix,
ehm. The more expencive monitor speakers aren't meant to make music sound good, but just to give a clear and honest representation of the sound. Whereas hi-fi speakers deliberately have some freqencies cut out and bass boosted to make it sound better. The reason for propper monitor speakers to have a liniar EQ-curve as it's called is to make make sure it sounds good on all speakers, as in a club, on an outdoor festival, in a car, on earplugs you name it. Because different speakers boost or extract different frequencies you need monitors that don't boost or extract anything.
I'm guessing you previous speakers had a certain bass boost that made you think you tracks had a lot of bass in them, when they didn't. Also I think you previous speakers extracted a certain frequency so while you where making the certain tracks you didn't know they where there, when they where. So you tracks had too little bass and a certain frequency was exadurated(an irritation hollow ringing sound). I'm guessing your 2:1 speakers have a seperate amplifier for your subwoofer which you can probably controll.
A way to get around this is quite simple. If you open you tracks with Windows Media Player you can right-click on the visualisation and find something called something like 'Bars and Waves'. I dunno exactly cos I have the Dutch version of WMP. But if you select the bars you can analyse what you are listening to and see the 'Spectrum Analyser' as it's called.
If you play your old tracks then you will probably see low bars on the left side, and somewhere just past the middle on the left you will see a peak moving around. This is the problem with your track, open a pro track in the trance genre and you will see an almost level frequency curve.
hope this has answered your question.
kind regards,
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