Studio Monitors?, Low budget!! Options

[ryosode]

I meant well known "active" monitors at below $300. =P

[add9]

I'll join this thread

I've been on Genelec 1029A cause they are cheap and small (don't have much space) but I am not satiesfied. The mixes I have done on those are way to "sharp". It seems like I have been fooled by the sound. It seems like I think I hear enough low frequences but when I play it on my stereo I hear that it is not "pushing" the way I want to.
I am now thinking of spending money on BM6A's in hope of getting a "cleaner" sound.

Do you think that it is a right investment for me to spend more money and buy Dynaudio?
Are there someone who is satiesfied with those small Genelec?

[lepetitmartien]

Add9 if you run the 1029 without the sub you're missing a lot of things. the monitors due to their size can't go down a lot and it's a problem for a lot of type of music. If you have the sub, then either the sub is not well placed/tuned or these genelecs don't suit for your ears.

[bjkiwi]

before u buy some different monitors, consider the effect of the room on what u are hearing. the acoustics of the room could be leading u 2 'hear' more low end than is actually there. without going into a detailed diatribe about room acoustics and monitor placement, I feel the most important task of monitors is 2 act as a benchmark for your judgement. so make up a collection of tracks u know well (lots of variety...rock, solo piano, vocal etc.) and listen to them in your space 2 become aware of the monitor/room's interence and then use them as comparisons and references to your work.
the vast majority of us are working and mixing in far less than ideal acoustic spaces and the better your awareness of the deficiences of your space the better equipped u are 2 make informed mixing decisions.

[Presto]

add9 - try borrowing a sub and see what happens before you spend money. You never know, you might be able to get a favour from a shop, if you can't find a mixer friend nearby

[lepetitmartien]

On monitor placement, the site of Genelec as a learning part worth reading.

Genelec's tutorials

[add9]

Again, thank you guys!
This is the only place I know that I can get serious feedback on things that really matters for me that is .
I have considered a sub, but that will cost some...so... I have decided to go for Dynaudio.
I think they suit my ears better, and that IS important.

I get, because I am one of a few women in music tech., a very nice discount on stash
Therefore I can afford the BM 6A. I tried them here for just a few days....Wow! Nice


Very interesting reading about monitor placement, lepetitmartien!

[Presto]

Yeah!!!!!! BM6As Join the club!

I don't think you'll need anything else for yeeeeears.

I had a fright the other day - the barn attic roof leaked. Where? Only in one place. Exactly on one of my luvly monitors - not the back fortunately. Oof

[lepetitmartien]

BM6A are rock solid (can't compare with other monitors not enough experience and it was not the place for close moitoring) but we feed them with huge modulars synths at last Frankfurt Musikmesse, and only once did we managed to clip in a week.
And we were very very bad with them.

If they are leakproof too…

btw add9 you can call me LPM for short

Also, the Genelec tutorial (they changed it and I don't have had a look to the new version) was extensive onto placement, DO try, there's theory and there's your room, begin with a theory placement then mess a bit around. Sometimes a few inches make huge differences, I had the exemple in the home studio a guy I know. 4-8" were the difference between mud and emphasys on bass and something much more clear and usable.

(beware, Presto is a BM6A fanatic

[Levon River]

add9, since the rarified air of philosophy on pristine studio monitors has been filled to a specific density equating to lead in this thread, I am loathe to introduce something so mundane and pedestrian, but I'd like to suggest that after you settle on the pair of crowning glories for yer studio, you locate yourself a ratty used pair of Ford standard-issue auto speakers, mount them with a few loose screws in plywood boxes, and hook them into a speaker A-B switch so you can listen with those to all your mixes--because *that* is what much of the world will hear your music on.