What's a good book for designing your own studio monitor speakers?
I was wondering if you knew of any diy projects to build studio monitor speakers like the mackie hr824:
I'm putting together a home-recording studio and all I'm missing are the monitor speakers. I'd like to get the mackie hr824 or higher end products, but I can't afford them. Would you know of any resources which could help me build monitor speakers myself? Thanks,
I haven't been following this issue for a number of years, but one method that used to be popular for studio monitors was near-field monitoring. The basic idea was to use a pair of small speakers sitting right on top of the mixer console, a couple of feet from your head. Even big studios were doing this, not to save money but because the engineer heard more of the mix and less of the room. That was before computer sound systems, and the monitors they used were of the sort called "bookshelf" speakers. I think they had 6 or 8 inch woofers and maybe tweeters, no midrange drivers. I suspect that today's decent computer speakers would do a pretty good job in this capacity.
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Bob Masta dqatechATdaqartaDOTcom D A Q A R T A Data AcQuisition And Real-Time Analysis
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