What monitors are you using?

[philjs]

Adam A5x

Phil

[standup]

PMC Result6

[M19]

Pair of Kali LP-6's.

[min7b5]

Adam A5X.
Though I lean much more on my Sennheiser HD650 headphones

[Pasanda]

I use a pair of Quest VS2108s as my main monitors.

Originally Posted by phcorrigan

Event 20/20 bas V3. No longer made, but available used at reasonable prices. I bought mine for $200 for the pair.

I used to have a pair of these - great monitors

Originally Posted by b1j

I went with Eris monitors. The little 3.5 pair uses the same tweeter as the next two sizes up, but only has a 3.5” woofer. So I supplemented them with an 8” Sub8 woofer, with a generous crossover that only asks the 3.5s to do what they can do well.

All made by Presonus. Total price, $300, about the same as the Eris 5 pair with 5” woofers.

Those Eris 3.5s are remarkable little things for the price.

[Bob Womack]

Mmmm...

UREI 813B/Cs as the main monitors soffitted in the control room with KRK 12S2 powered subwoofer
Klark-Teknik DN360 Room EQs
David Haffler Trans-Nova P7000 Power Amps

JBL LSP4328s and LSR4312SP sub, networked as the secondaries

Bag End MM-8s with D10E-L subwoofers and ELF-M2 Low Frequency Integrators in surround array
Klark-Teknik DN360 Room EQs
David Haffler Trans-Nova P7000 Power Amps

Auratone 5C Supercubes for tertiary reference

Live-End-Dead-End™ (unlicensed) control room design

UREI 811cs with Sony powered subwoofers and Denon amp at home

Bob

[RRuskin]

JBL 4315's and Auratone 5C's. Each pair has its own power amp so relative volume between the 2 remains equal.

[runamuck]

Mackie 824 and Presonus Eris 3.5

[Sasquatchian]

Another vote for Genelec here. Coming from a very high end digital photo and retouching area where really the only monitor for images was the highly calibrated Eizo line, and after trying Sonnarworks (way too many huge bugs) with a lower end pair of JBL's, combined with the recommendation of a buddy who was a sound editor at Fox where all they used were Genelec, and seeing them in many of the studios I had photographed, I first bought a pair of Genelec 8351B's from Sweetwater and then added their 7370A 12" sub to the mix last year.

Now that stuff ain't exactly cheap and can run into real money if you're doing a Dolby Atmos room but I'm not doing that. I love the fact that I can calibrate in just a few seconds and get a visual reference of the frequency response before and after the calibration curves are applied, that the system addresses phase issues automatically, and that it's basically flat from about 16hz up way past where I can here anything and then provide extensive controls to tweak the output to your personal taste - for instance, I seem to prefer about a 2 db boost to the low frequencies below about 100hz, something that is easily achieved, and then the calibration can be stored in Genelec's GLM software or directly to the speakers themselves if that's what you want. I also like that, if you leave the GLM software on with the measurement mic attached, it will give you a constant decibel readout of your playback levels so you know you're not playing back at ear damaging levels.

Since most of what I'm recording are my gf's accordion parts for movies and tv shows (just last week for a new show coming out on Apple TV), it's really helpful for us to be able to hear everything the composers are supplying in their backing tracks, so we hear what we're recording in context to the rest of the orchestration. Every once in a while I need to run RX Music Rebalance, mostly to separate a vocal track that might be too buried in the mix, especially if she's being asked to play off the vocal, or even sing harmonies. It also surprises me that some people are supplying really rough mixes, perhaps thinking that it doesn't matter for the musicians adding their tracks remotely, but it really does make our job that much easier the closer the backing tracks are to being done.

Genelec's customer service is some of the best I've ever encountered in any tech field, and their west coast rep, Steffanee has bent over backwards to make sure I'm more than happy. In addition, Genelec is a Finnish company where the emphasis is on green production, making employees comfortable and happy and making products that are built or a lifetime of professional use. I could not be happier.

[Chipotle]

Originally Posted by Rudy4

Presonus Eris E5 powered monitors.

I use the E5s as well.

[jim1960]

Originally Posted by Sasquatchian

Another vote for Genelec here.

This isn't a voting thing nor a brand thing. I'm simply asking what specific monitors people own (or use regularly someone works in a studio situation) or previously owned so I can compile the info and add it to the stickied thread.

[jim1960]

Originally Posted by b1j

I went with Eris monitors. The little 3.5 pair uses the same tweeter as the next two sizes up, but only has a 3.5” woofer. So I supplemented them with an 8” Sub8 woofer, with a generous crossover that only asks the 3.5s to do what they can do well.

All made by Presonus. Total price, $300, about the same as the Eris 5 pair with 5” woofers.

Can you please give me the specific model numbers?

[rick-slo]

Years back I bought M-Audio Carbon BX-6 monitors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxqJzZurB4c

Near field monitors (and in an untreated room at the time) just did not work. Still have the monitors and the room is acoustically treated but I don't have the space
to set up monitors without entirely taking over use of the room and I don't have enough acoustic isolation to be running speakers for recording and DAW work.

[jim1960]

Originally Posted by rick-slo

Still have the monitors and the room is acoustically treated but I don't have the space to set up monitors without entirely taking over use of the room and I don't have enough acoustic isolation to be running speakers for recording and DAW work.

Closet studios are difficult to manage.

[rick-slo]

Originally Posted by jim1960

Closet studios are difficult to manage.

Recording room space is 16x12 feet.