MONITORING
The most important pieces of gear in a studio are a good set of monitoring speakers. Repeat after me: The most important pieces of gear in a studio are a good set of monitoring speakers. Remembering this will save you many heartaches and wasted hours.
If you are monitoring through little popcan “computer” speakers, your magnum opus may sound like mouse excrement in a popcan when played back on a decent system. In addition to a good set of speakers, if you are going to be doing any recording with a microphone, you are going to need a decent set of closed or semi-closed headphones.
Speakers basically come in two varieties: powered speakers with amplifiers built in to their enclosures and passive or nonpowered speakers, which need to ...
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