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Original message:173 days 23 hours 2 minutes ago

Member: Jer Williams

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Hey,
I am looking for a decent set of studio monitors, but on a kinda tight budget. Someone is selling a pair of Tannoy PBM 6.5 LM Powered Reference Studio Monitors for $450 in my town. Does anyone know if these are decent monitors? Good deal price wise? I don't want to end up paying good money for junk...

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-Jer

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Reply:172 days 16 hours 5 minutes ago
Member: eds1275

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Jer

Dunno if they are worth the money, look up ebay or something to get an idea of what they are new. However, Tannoy makes some nice stuff. Yorkville studio monitors use tannoy components and I mixed on those doing some commercial work for a few years.

Reply:172 days 6 hours 19 minutes ago
Member: Jer Williams

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Thanks eds,
I had a listen to them last night, sounded good so I picked them up, talked him down to $400 which is pretty good for a pair of powered monitors, they sound great hooked up to my rig, but then being a newbie I don't have allot to compare with. They do bring out a lot of the shortfalls of my cheaper condenser mics though. Guess I'll have to buy some better ones when I can save up enough to get a U87 or something, in music the spending never ends...

-Jer

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Reply:172 days 5 hours 51 minutes ago
Member: Xarkzila

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Just be aware that reference monitors don't sound AT ALL like home speakers. They are not "colored" though they will all sound just a little different. (We get this in the control room all the time. Bass response is usually pretty low, and everyone wants more bass. We did that for a customer once and they fried their home stereo because there was TOO much bass. Now we just explain to them.)

Take some of your favorite music and listen to it on your "new" monitors. Make sure you're not adding any additional bass, mid or treble. Set everything flat! Monitors aren't meant for "listening to taste." That's for home stereo stuff. Monitors are meant to provide detail that you don't otherwise hear from your home stereo. So take some time to get used to how they sound with your favorite music. You'll be a mixing fool in no time.

And if you want to make your cheaper mics sound better? Get a decent preamplifier. The ART MPA is an excellent choice and won't set you back very much at all. (I got the analog model which is cheaper than the digital one. I like all my AD/DA happening at the same place and time.)

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Reply:171 days 20 hours 20 minutes ago
Member: eds1275

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I second the Tube Mp - I have 8 channels of tube art pres which says alot since I have 18 inputs. Soon they will retire to my mobile rig making it a pretty wicked setup. I have two Pro MPA's and one DUal MP which is the same model just no VU meters and then the DSP II which has sp/dif i/o on it.

I recomend getting some better tubes on them, and on mine I did a little work inside to sweeten them up. But straight out of the box they compared to a friends' presonus that was twice the price. I hope to soonly replace them all with a focusrite isa 828. Lately I have fallen on "hard times" and the girlfriend was in the hospital for a long time which set back my purchasing schedule.

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