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On 10/21/2011 03:39 PM, Artem Vakhitov wrote:

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> Hi all,

>

> can you recommend me some inexpensive but good small monitors and

> headphones for home recording? No high aspirations yet, just for doing

> various demos on my laptop. Admittedly, I don't know how to define

> "good" here, I just need them to be perceptibly better than your

> average desktop speakers and earbuds :) Similarly, I don't really know

> what "inexpensive" is referring to the above, but as a wild guess,

> let's start from 0. I prefer plain audio solutions, though will

> consider USB ones (my Samsung Q70 has two US ports only, so that puts

> some limitations).

>

> Regards,

> Artem Vakhitov

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Imho, it doesn't really mather that much what speakers you use to mix

with as long os they have reasonable frequency response which most

loudspeakers today have (I use consumergrade hifi, Wharfedale 9.1's)..

The perception of sound is subjective, eg I have no idea how you or

anybody else percieve the sound of, say Sting in a pair of genelecs or

any other brand. Something that I do recommend tho is to often reference

listen to your favorite tracks when mixing, _not_ to copy sound but just

for the sake of sanity checking levels and reverbs and such... also

remember to let mixing take time.. mix a track till you like it, take a

break from the song for a couple of hours, preferably let it cure over

night.. Then the next listen is the most critical seconds of it all,

cause now you have fresh ears, note anything that stands out on a paper

and fix it after you listen through the song once.

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