Hey all, first, I'd like to apologize if this is in the wrong section. I couldn't find an acoustics/studio monitor sub forum.
I recently bought a pair of Yamaha HS50Ms. I love them so far, they contrast very nicely with my Rokit KRK 8s. I feel like they've already helped out my mixing. I recently bought a Mackie Big Knob to hook all my inputs/both sets of monitors up to. I know that for referencing, you should only listen to one set of monitors at a time. I'm curious as to what KVR thinks about running both sets of monitors at the same time. Can this help with mixing, or is it useless due to phase cancellation and the monitors working against each other?
Running 2 pairs of studio monitors at once
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- KVRAF
- 16735 posts since 13 Oct, 2009
If you mean while just jamming stuff out, then I think whatever helps you to feel it more is all good. So long as when you start to actually listen critically, I guess that's what I'd call mixing, that you use only one set at a time.Atomisk wrote:Hey all, first, I'd like to apologize if this is in the wrong section. I couldn't find an acoustics/studio monitor sub forum.
I recently bought a pair of Yamaha HS50Ms. I love them so far, they contrast very nicely with my Rokit KRK 8s. I feel like they've already helped out my mixing. I recently bought a Mackie Big Knob to hook all my inputs/both sets of monitors up to. I know that for referencing, you should only listen to one set of monitors at a time. I'm curious as to what KVR thinks about running both sets of monitors at the same time. Can this help with mixing, or is it useless due to phase cancellation and the monitors working against each other?
Personally, I found that the HS50s translate very well for more acoustic type stuff but were absolutely abysmal for house music. When I tried using a sub with them I just couldn't get it to translate well.
So, for me, I can't use more than one set at a time when I'm listening critically, even a sub was confusing me.
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- KVRian
- 804 posts since 18 Apr, 2011
It could definitely be good as a "throw your mix to the dogs" but I think that no, mixing on both would be a bad idea. He spectrum would be too arbitrarily screwed up.
I think learning how those two setups sound should be enough. It might actually slow down the proccess if you complicate things further.
I think learning how those two setups sound should be enough. It might actually slow down the proccess if you complicate things further.
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 46 posts since 1 Dec, 2010
I thought so, thanks for the input!stillshaded wrote:It could definitely be good as a "throw your mix to the dogs" but I think that no, mixing on both would be a bad idea. He spectrum would be too arbitrarily screwed up.