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Good inexpensive monitors for Home Recording

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  • 04-02-2002 3:45pm
    #1
    Beany
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    I'm a newbie to home recording on my PC and I am looking for suggestions for a good inexpensive monitor. I am willing to spend up tp £400. What is the best quality monitor I can get for that price?

    I remember somebody recommended the Yamaha NS10M before, but I found out that Yamaha have stopped making those.

    I know of some active Tannoy Reveals going for £500, but they may be a little out of my league. I can get passive Tannoy Reveals for cheaper but I will then need to buy an amp which will probably bump the price up to around £500 anyways.

    ANY SUGGESTIONS???

    Where I can buy a monitor (2nd hand or new)?
    Is there any good web-sales apart from Thomann?


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    mike65
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    £500 or do you mean €, an impportant difference!
    Also is that £Sterling or £IR? even more important!

    Either way 500 is at the edge of quality, Yamaha have
    the MSP5 at £450 Sterling, they got good press. or see if you can find reviews for the MSP3 models at £230 Sterling.

    Mike.


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    Beany
    Closed Accounts Posts: 171 ✭✭Beany


    I was talking in IR£...My absolute limit would be IR£500 which is E635.

    £450 sterling for Yamaha MSP5s? Is this for 2 Active speakers?


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    mike65
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    Yep thats a pair for the best prices you could do worse than buy Sound on Sound and check the display ads sometimes there are real bargins to be had.
    STOP PRESS! Go here now before they end the deal £339 Sterling!
    http://www.soundslive.co.uk/Recording_Monitors.htm

    Mike.


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    Cheez
    Closed Accounts Posts: 467 ✭✭Cheez


    Hey nuthin about this but mike i saw on ur site there sumthin about soundfonts?
    Sounds interesting what are they?
    Sumthin to do wit midi i presume?
    Do you use cubase VST?
    Any tips for makin tooons?
    I liked that Triptych actually nice 1


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    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Oh feck, you're not going to ask me to explain soundfonts are you? They're very good as a source of quality sounds for nothing,
    (thousands on the net for downloading).
    Go here http://www.soundfonts.com/.
    for a good intro and links.

    I dont use Cubase VST as I'm a cheapskate!:D
    I use Calkwalk as they have a Sounfont-friendly interface.

    Thanks for clicking the link and having a listen, much of my stuff is created with sounfonts as the primary source. On Triptych
    the piano is a font.

    As for tips only one - play whats inside your head, and what you
    gear will let you create. Obvious but true. I grew up on hard rock
    and metal of the sixties and seventies but its "space music" thats in my head.

    Mike.


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    Cheez
    Closed Accounts Posts: 467 ✭✭Cheez


    Thanks !!
    I try to get wats in me hed there but the best stuff comes when
    im nearly asleep or when im herbally relaxed and its harder to
    have the patience to get it into music(i think its god takin the piss)

    Oh i can get ye lots of sound proggys for cheap
    Legally of course(heheheheheheheheheheh)
    I just hav fukall space on me compy for em
    Giz a mail entheogen@mail.com
    danke shuuuuuuuuuun


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