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Barefoot monitor question.
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| Juan Paulino |
Yeah I'm goin for em. My focals did their time already and now its time to move on a higher level of imaging. So i'll sell these and get the micromains generation 2.
I see there is a USB input so that means the converters are already inside so I dont need my dac anymore, how does this work? how will both monitors be connected?
http://vintageking.com/barefoot-sou...in-35-gen2-pair
Edit: Can't find the darn manual anywhere. |
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| DJ RANN |
I would normally say jump on that , but actually I'm going to tell you to refrain.
I think you're going for the MM35 G2's (not the larger 27's) and even though they are ing incredible (although I've only heard them once and they shat on my speakers so badly I couldn't quite tell what I was hearing), there's no point having them in your room.
You're buying $7.5k monitors that need a seriously treated room. Even the focals would have benefited from it but putting the barefoot MM g2's in untreated room is like scoring a date with the hottest girl on your school, then taking her to dinner with your Mum and Dad. It will be pretty to look at and know you got it, but you just won't get the desired result.
Do some serious room treatment before you pull the trigger on them. Or if you are going to pull the trigger on them, make sure you invest in treatment. And no, I don't mean a crash course from Ethan Weiner's website and a few hundred bucks of foam. I mean real treatment.
EDIT: forgot to add, I could be wrong but the USB is not for internal DAC - I think it's to program the onboard DSP for updates etc. Again, I could be wrong, I just don't see how he's fitted a DAC in there worthy of the speakers (i.e. pristine class A etc) for the price. You'd also need two USB cables per pair of monitors then have to do aggreate audio devices etc which I just don't think is included. |
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| Looney4Clooney |
| if you have the money and realize they won't change the quality of your work , go nuts. Not sure if you are looking for advice or not. They will probably reduce your quality for the first few months as your ears are green and it will take a while. |
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| Juan Paulino |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ RANN
I would normally say jump on that , but actually I'm going to tell you to refrain.
I think you're going for the MM35 G2's (not the larger 27's) and even though they are ing incredible (although I've only heard them once and they shat on my speakers so badly I couldn't quite tell what I was hearing), there's no point having them in your room.
You're buying $7.5k monitors that need a seriously treated room. Even the focals would have benefited from it but putting the barefoot MM g2's in untreated room is like scoring a date with the hottest girl on your school, then taking her to dinner with your Mum and Dad. It will be pretty to look at and know you got it, but you just won't get the desired result.
Do some serious room treatment before you pull the trigger on them. Or if you are going to pull the trigger on them, make sure you invest in treatment. And no, I don't mean a crash course from Ethan Weiner's website and a few hundred bucks of foam. I mean real treatment.
EDIT: forgot to add, I could be wrong but the USB is not for internal DAC - I think it's to program the onboard DSP for updates etc. Again, I could be wrong, I just don't see how he's fitted a DAC in there worthy of the speakers (i.e. pristine class A etc) for the price. You'd also need two USB cables per pair of monitors then have to do aggreate audio devices etc which I just don't think is included. |
Thanks Rann,
Treatment first, got it. I mean those gen 2 monitors do look bad ass. You def right because in every studio i saw that had bare foots was crazily room treated and i don't have that much foam on my wall. oh well.
| quote: | Originally posted by Looney4Clooney
if you have the money and realize they won't change the quality of your work , go nuts. Not sure if you are looking for advice or not. They will probably reduce your quality for the first few months as your ears are green and it will take a while. |
There's more reasons that just changing quality of work looney. SO when are you gonna help me calibrate my room for treatment brother? |
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| Looney4Clooney |
Should take less than 8 hours to do a very thorough analysis.
You don't need a great mic, the software is free. It Is just boring. You are sectionning your room into a grid and taking measurements for each location. Once you have this, you will have a pretty good idea how your room is affecting the audio. But it is like many things, not really a priority because shotty mixes get released. Same with speaker spl calibration. Every pro studio knows how loud the speakers are in actual tangible units and they never alter them. Usually 2-3 settings. Rann has made tons of how tos. |
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| Juan Paulino |
| should i take pics of my whole room? |
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| Juan Paulino |
I just got a deal for 4,000 generation 1's. 1 left in stock. Demo deal.
Rann, tell my man what you think? take it first then treatment afterwards? hehe |
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| Looney4Clooney |
| you don't seem to get it. THey will not make your music sound better. Stop talking about them like they are part of your long game. THey are a tax write off like most overpriced equipment nobody needs. |
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| itsamemario |
| Juan, u do realize absolutely noone are impressed by your ability to aquire equipment as it's taking away from your ability to make real music, right? I mean, you might not, as you've never even learned how to write the word ******. It's really quite on of the most pathetic things that happen on this site regularly. |
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| Juan Paulino |
| Who in the world said i made this thread to impress, I'm not L4C. Mario half of TA has you on ignore so stay out of my threads bitch. |
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| Teezdalien |
So you admit you're not smart enough to operate a moog, then want to invest in 7 thousand dollar monitors....
s hilarious. :stongue: |
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