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Originally Posted by Keyflo  Thanx why do you need those, are they essential when recording and mixing? |
Ideally, they are perfectly matched and tuned for the acoustics of the room.
There's a bit of an enigma:
They are designed to be loud, but also ACCURATE!
If you're doing hip-hop and see those big speakers, you might assume CLUB,
but you really don't get out of them what you would hear in a club.
They are usually tuned to have a flatter frequency response than the scooped EQ
you would hear in a club. So, if you make the bass rattle in the control room for the hype, you'll wind up with way too much for the club or the trunk.
In LA, many of the top studios had these same speakers and had them tuned by the same guy, so that there would be continuity from room to room.
Later, studios started installing systems with subs and changed the curves for more hype. I remember seeing a Cerwin Vega system in he studio where Dre did his early work.
Whenever you see the "big speakers", you'd better find out if they are tuned for hype or for accuracy.