Gearslutz.com - View Single Post - Monitor speakers for dance music (house/techno)
View Single Post
Old 6th May 2007   #6
Caban
Gear interested
 
Joined: May 2007
Posts: 26

If you go on what make most successful producers in the genre use I would guess it's dynaudio.
Their bass response is not the most natural and uncoloured IMO, but works a treat for dance music.
Very tight and punchy.

When it comes to nearfields I would not get to obsessed with how deep the bass goes. Unless you have a well designed and treated room anything below 50-60Hz will be very problematic, and even if your monitors reproduce those frequencies the information that gives you will not be very useful.

By all means get a sub to turn on if it helps you get in to the mood, but don't expect to get accurate monitoring in the sub spectrum without having a well treated room.
And in that case you would ideally have a pair of nearfields where you do most of you mixing on as well as a proper pair of fullrange monitors where you can check the full spectrum occasionally.
Caban is offline   Reply With Quote