Thanks, Adam. I love this stuff but as a retired hobbyist, I'm really happy with the Kali's. When is the crazy world going to settle down so it's worthwhile buying components to build a PC? I know the answer. Who knows when? 😃
great video. taking on all these advise but the biggest issue for me is being unable to get the speakers much away from the wall. maybe about 1 foot is really the maximum. so that leads me to wonder how to make the best of this situation. and surely i cannot be the only person with this issue. if putting a panel directly behind the speakers on to that wall... then how thick? since a panel will eats into and lessen that very limited back wall distance. should it use up the whole gap there? or be partially i.e half or some other fraction to coincide with the natural optimum panel thickness. also wondering how different is it for dealing with a solid brick wall, vs a drywall / stud walls. because this thing is brick as it happens. i am guessing it just reflects mostly (but maybe there is a specific bass response). wheras your typical industry standard stud wall / drywall is going to be worse than that. and have some additional extra resonant frequenc-(ies). so my question related to that being relevant here, as an assumption for distancing the speakers from the wall. and if is relevant another factor is front or rear bass port. can being a front ported be a help here? as to not send the bass directly backwards onto the wall. or it doesn't make much difference? i feel these are important questions for other newcomers, who are facing a similar set of limitations
As far as I know, treating every other surface in your room (Behind you, first reflections, above you, floor, etc) will be a way bigger deal than behind your monitors. If you can get your monitors away from the wall, that's great and you should. If you can't, that's fine and you'll have a bass bump. Either you can try deal with that with DSP/EQ on your computer (Sonarworks, or even some random EQ software). As far as I know, the wall behind your monitor isn't gonna cause nodes (A bell curve at a certain frequency. Let's say 12+ db at 145 hz), it'll be more like a low shelf (I could be wrong), and that isn't a massive problem for figuring your mix out. Nodes are a big issue, but a room being "Slightly bass heavy" isn't so much. Don't get me wrong, a flatter room is better, but you can get a mix sounding good with references. If your references and your mix sound like they have the same amount of bass in your bassy room, that's still a good frame of reference. If you have a 12db boost at 145, good luck figuring out why a mix is muddy. It's something you'll fight the whole time. Hope that helps a bit and isn't entirely wrong (I'm not an acoustician, but I've spent a good bit of time tryna understand this. :)
Thanks for the info on monitors, monitoring and a basic rundown on room acoustics and treatments. Warren at Produce Like a Pro has also released a current video about setting up a bedroom studio with discussion on room treatment and desk/monitor placement. I have used a room acoustics calculator that shows what nodes and problem frequencies to be aware of and even where bass frequencies will be problematic. (amcoustics.com) to help with deciding on treatment and monitor placement.
I bought PreSonus E3.5's due to the price alone thinking they would sound so good compared to my regular computer speakers. I was WRONG! I don't need anything big for my tiny box room but I don't think these are any good at all
The S2V were a review loan, and I used the A7X because when they first came out they were way better than anything else in the price range. Since then their designer has moved on to create Eve audio
nice info, thanks... how about conversion though? can it affect the monitoring quality in low-med systems? where would you place it in your priorities? and just one more question... in terms of mixing would you choose a high end dac instead of audio interface? thanks again
ADC and DAC are not the scope of this video, but modern DACs are so good compared to the ones of 10 or 20 years ago that I think it makes little difference, especially compared to room treatment and monitor quality. If you can genuinely hear a big difference, then your monitoring situation is likely already more than good enough to justify that being the next upgrade path
