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Whats bugging me: Gear heads with crappy monitors. (pg. 3)
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| EgosXII |
| i need some proper moniters, but i prefer to spend money on synths... i can hear the sounds well enough :p |
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| synthnl |
Hi guys, Funny to find a thread about me on here :)
Let me explain about the Thruths. I have been mixing my music so far on headphones. Sennheiser HD650s to be precise. The reason: The aucoustics in my old studio where incredibly bad. A long tube like room with a round soft side on the left and a straight glass side on the right. I had the Thruths actually to hear what my music sounds like on more Hifi like speakers in combination with a sub. So not to mix on, but to prevent me from adding too much bass. I'll keep them for that reason as well by the way. I'm moving now to a new studio that will be acoustically a lot better, so I'm testing out some new decent monitors now. And next time you want to know why someone does something, just sent them an E-mail and not speculate about it, they might just answer you ;) But for monitors I'm open for suggestions :) |
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| EgosXII |
| haha, ^^ pretty much raps up the thread :p |
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| Ry Thomas |
| quote: | Originally posted by synthnl
Hi guys, Funny to find a thread about me on here :)
Let me explain about the Thruths. I have been mixing my music so far on headphones. Sennheiser HD650s to be precise. The reason: The aucoustics in my old studio where incredibly bad. A long tube like room with a round soft side on the left and a straight glass side on the right. I had the Thruths actually to hear what my music sounds like on more Hifi like speakers in combination with a sub. So not to mix on, but to prevent me from adding too much bass. I'll keep them for that reason as well by the way. I'm moving now to a new studio that will be acoustically a lot better, so I'm testing out some new decent monitors now. And next time you want to know why someone does something, just sent them an E-mail and not speculate about it, they might just answer you ;) But for monitors I'm open for suggestions :) |
Hows the Juno 106? I'm thinking about getting one |
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| dannib |
| I have a Juno 106. They are cool and have a very nice character to them. The bass you can get is very deep. Think old deep house music. Its also excellent for pads although there isn't much scope for creating anything interesting or evolving, just bread and butter sounds. The chorus sounds cool although very noisy. I would definately recomended. I paid £200 for a brand spanking new, basically unused 106 with manual and flight case. I was very lucky i suppose. this was only just before christmas. |
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| Ry Thomas |
| quote: | Originally posted by dannib
I have a Juno 106. They are cool and have a very nice character to them. The bass you can get is very deep. Think old deep house music. Its also excellent for pads although there isn't much scope for creating anything interesting or evolving, just bread and butter sounds. The chorus sounds cool although very noisy. I would definately recomended. I paid £200 for a brand spanking new, basically unused 106 with manual and flight case. I was very lucky i suppose. this was only just before christmas. |
Bloody hell that is cheap, cheers mate |
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| synthnl |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ry Thomas
Hows the Juno 106? I'm thinking about getting one |
The Juno 106 is a great analog sounding aynthesizer, I personally love the Juno sound. But I would look a bit further and go for a Juno 60 if you have the chance. It really sounds a bit more analog even. It is deeper and warmer than the 106. The arpeggiator is a dream come true by the way. It is alive :) The only thing with it is that it doesn't have midi as standard, but you can use a Kenton DCB to midi converter or a retro fit midi kit for that. |
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| synthnl |
| quote: | | The chorus sounds cool although very noisy. |
I would say you get an extra noise oscillator for free :D Ah well it creates a lot of vintage character for sure :) |
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| Ry Thomas |
| quote: | Originally posted by synthnl
The Juno 106 is a great analog sounding aynthesizer, I personally love the Juno sound. But I would look a bit further and go for a Juno 60 if you have the chance. It really sounds a bit more analog even. It is deeper and warmer than the 106. The arpeggiator is a dream come true by the way. It is alive :) The only thing with it is that it doesn't have midi as standard, but you can use a Kenton DCB to midi converter or a retro fit midi kit for that. |
Ok thanks for that mate |
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| mark_gg_daniels |
unbelievably my 60 quid missions blew up, and ive been using ipod headphones for a few weeks... hahaha
You may laugh, you may judge... but I made some stuff, and have played them on other formats and find the quality still pretty darn good...
basiclly, I disagree with you guys, and am saying you dont need to fork out a fortune on speakers, its all pretty much academic once youve spent a hundred quid or so. If music is good, it will sound good anywhere (even on a televsion)
but before I get hate mail its just an opinion! |
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| Lunar Phase 7 |
| quote: | Originally posted by mark_gg_daniels
unbelievably my 60 quid missions blew up, and ive been using ipod headphones for a few weeks... hahaha
You may laugh, you may judge... but I made some stuff, and have played them on other formats and find the quality still pretty darn good...
basiclly, I disagree with you guys, and am saying you dont need to fork out a fortune on speakers, its all pretty much academic once youve spent a hundred quid or so. If music is good, it will sound good anywhere (even on a televsion)
but before I get hate mail its just an opinion! |
True.
The only thing I'd like is to have a bit mor ebass response on my speakers (rolls of at 75Hz) but otherwise I am quite happy with my sister's old hifi speakers, which were part of a LG surround sound kit, which has out live 2x 32" TV and a Sony hifi.
Haha, I wonder what it is like to produce on fine speakers... |
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| alanzo |
| quote: | Originally posted by synthnl
The Juno 106 is a great analog sounding aynthesizer, I personally love the Juno sound. But I would look a bit further and go for a Juno 60 if you have the chance. It really sounds a bit more analog even. It is deeper and warmer than the 106. The arpeggiator is a dream come true by the way. It is alive :) The only thing with it is that it doesn't have midi as standard, but you can use a Kenton DCB to midi converter or a retro fit midi kit for that. |
The Juno 60 is in many ways a poor-man's Jupiter 8. It has the same filter and envelopes. Only difference is the OSCs. The Juno 60 has a single analog chip OSC and I think a sub OSC whereas teh Jupiter 8 has two discrete OSCs. The Juno 60 also has DCB... an old version of MIDI that is easily converted to/from MIDI signals.
I've never used any of that old stuff, but it does interest me enough to do some research. I would get either a Juno 60 because of its a little brother to the Jupiter 8 or the Kawai SX-240 which has the same chorus chip as the Juno 106. |
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