I have a shiny 5 piece Pearl kit headed my way with a 24" kick. I know balls about drums, but now I will have a complete backline in basement and can record any stupid idea that comes to mind.

I have strong sense memories of a kit like that sounding like it was about to mow me down like a tank. Nicely done.

I'm mixing a bunch of weird synth music with really exaggerated sub lows and my current monitors (Fluid FX80) handle lows sort of too well. They can dip really low without sounding flubby or exhausted by it. It's almost like mixing with a sub without having a sub. Problem is translation. Stuff that sounds balanced, although be it extremely wide spectrum, on the Fluids sounds WAY too energetic in the sub 50HZ range on everything else I've tested the mixes on. On speakers with shitty low end like my NS10, it is fart pillow time. I ordered a set of ADAM T7V as a second set to A/B against hoping that between the 2 I can get something that translates better. I don't have the cash to purchase a single set of really good monitors right now, but I do have enough to bay a second set of cheapos. This is probably all a bad idea, but I did it.

Kniferide wrote:Stuff that sounds balanced, although be it extremely wide spectrum, on the Fluids sounds WAY too energetic in the sub 50HZ range on everything else I've tested the mixes on. On speakers with shitty low end like my NS10, it is fart pillow time.

I'm in a similar situation with my KRK V6 monitors, to the point where I'm thinking of taking that "other monitors" money to GIK instead. (For bass traps)

brephophagist wrote: Mon Jun 14, 2021 5:29 pm

Kniferide wrote:Stuff that sounds balanced, although be it extremely wide spectrum, on the Fluids sounds WAY too energetic in the sub 50HZ range on everything else I've tested the mixes on. On speakers with shitty low end like my NS10, it is fart pillow time.

I'm in a similar situation with my KRK V6 monitors, to the point where I'm thinking of taking that "other monitors" money to GIK instead. (For bass traps)

Oh, I've got bass traps all over. My problem is less about bass build up and more about these monitors being a little too good at bass. When you throw a bunch of low end at them they just can take it and it makes sub synth sound awesome, but when you take that back to other speakers, its overwhelming. You can hear pretty well into the 30-40 Hz range without them sounding like they are getting bogged down. They really do kind of just sound like subs with a tweeter. I'm hoping the Adams will be voiced more like a home stereo speaker so I can see how much low I can get away with before pouring jello all over the place.

Hm. I'm having a very similar problem in a mostly untreated room, so hearing this is making me rethink my strategy. I probably need to read the Mike Senior book again.

brephophagist wrote: Mon Jun 14, 2021 6:33 pm Hm. I'm having a very similar problem in a mostly untreated room, so hearing this is making me rethink my strategy. I probably need to read the Mike Senior book again.

My room is very small and so low end can be an issue. I have 2 really big (6'x3'x10") and 2 2' tall corner traps, plus the requisite dumb wall foam and some ghetto diffusion. I went with 8" concentric monitors because I usually mix pretty quiet and wanted to still have low end at low volume, which works well. I think I'm just having too much fun with how much I can push it when I want. The mixes sound good on my Beyer headphones but everywhere else, it is just way too cloudy. I just want something else that is generally reliable for A/B testing. I really wish I could just have a bigger room. Get wild. I've found my NS10 to be useless for really, everything.

Kniferide wrote: Mon Jun 14, 2021 5:11 pm ADAM T7V

So far these are very nice sounding monitors given how cheap they are. On the down side, using them as an A/B against the Fluid FX80's isn't revealing anything I would change. The don't extend quiet as far in the lows as the FX80's but the low end isn't giving me flubby vibes on the Adam's like I was getting from the NS10's or the weird little Phase Tech PC60's upstairs in the living room. The mixes sound almost the exact same on the Adams and the Fluids if I engage the 2dB LF boost on the back. They sound so similar, that I'm not sure I'll even keep them.

Sold my ES-335 to Barnicle and picked up:

2019 Rickenbacker 4003: Behringer Vocoder:

tommy wrote: Thu Jun 17, 2021 9:08 am Behringer Vocoder:

as much as I hate Behringer, I really thought about picking up one of those vocoders just to run drum machines through.