8Monitoring
Studio loudspeakers are called monitors. This chapter opens Part II for good reason—a good monitoring environment is an absolute mixing requisite, and should be high up in budget planning, whether you mix at home or in a professional studio. The main conclusion of this chapter is worth revealing already—the monitors are just one variable; it is the monitors, their position, the listener’s position, and the acoustic properties of the room that dictate the overall quality of the monitoring environment. Having great monitors badly positioned in a problematic room is like having a Ferrari that only goes up to second gear.
How did we get here?
Sound reproduction
In order to reproduce sound, loudspeaker drivers displace air in response ...
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