I'm interested in purchasing a pair of reference monitors (my budget is around $300-350 US). I'd like to know what are some good CDs or sounds to use to do a comparison test and what are some important things to listen for during the comparison.

btw, I'm considering between ESI nEar05 eXperience and KRK Rokit Powered 5 (RP5).

Any thoughts or advice would be appreciated.

What's up peeps?

How do you go about recording drums while simultaneously recording guitar and bass without the drummer's monitor mix bleeding through to the drum mics? Is there a way to do this other than monitoring through headphones?

Hi people !
Nice to be here !

I have a pair of Event TR8's and I can't mix anything that translates properly! I've been using them for a long time now, have changed my room, treated my room with help from the acoustics guys, changed my listening position. .and still! The funny thing is. my mixes sound terrific on the monitors then when they get to a different pair, my car, my stereo. crap!

Hello all,

I'm in the market for new monitors... I'd like to get powered monitors this time around. I currently use Event 20/20 passives with an Alesis RA150 poweramp.

The Events have pretty flat bass response... i know that is generally desirable, but I'm doing dance music and I'm finding that when I bounce down out of Pro Tools my subs are out of control.

Hi All,

This is my first post, great forum so much knowledge!

I'm considering to get an RME fireface800 interface and I've just come to realize that it does not come with dedicated monitor outs. Is this considered bad? And What is the alternative output in this case?

Thanks.

Alright Kurt, I've pondered the internet and read tons of opinions. However, after getting such a kick out of the thread regarding pres, I feel strangely compelled to see you chime in on the subjects of Mackie HR monitors.

hello

could use some advice as i am shopping for new monitors
my studio _ small room (twelve x fifteen) used to track guitar five_string bass to drum loops

I am comparing three monitors (event twenty twenty bass _ and studio precision eight and six)

sorry, i'm fairly new to all this.

i use headphones while i'm doing all my tracking, and i can get everything to sound good to my ear through them

however, i don't have monitor speakers. i just have my big stereo system that i usually hook up L/R rca speaker cables to, just to check that my mix will sound fairly decent on CD...