[rockstar_josh]

Hi... I've dug through the Remote forum for a while, and I'm hoping to get some solid feedback on a problem I have (hopefully I can explain it clearly):

I own a rehearsal studio where two of my rooms are used for tracking. I have pass throughs from the rooms out to the hallway/foyer area, and I set up my rack and monitors in the hallway in front of the two rooms. Actually, to be more specific, one room is 4 feet longer than the other, so it creates a little nook where I set up. The rooms' mic outputs are located in this nook. I have a large problem getting good kick drum sounds, and accurate bass guitar sounds, because about 4 feet behind me is a 70 ft. long common wall that makes up the "hallway" outside of our rooms. The ceilings are 25 ft., so the low end especially just goes everywhere! I don't have a lot of pace or a convenient place to bass trap, so I can't control my low end at all. It's a really horrible control room environment, but it's the best I can do until I can get more space for an actual control room.

I've considered two options: either using the JBL 4328s with room correction, or getting a really good set of headphones and using them for dialing in my kick and bass sounds. I have some Sennheiser 280s, but those aren't good enough to give me a clear, definite kick sound.

My questions are: has anyone had any luck with certain types of monitors (the JBLs even?) in difficult monitoring setups?

Can anyone recommend suitable phones for the job? I've read a lot about Grados and Ultrasones and higher-end Sennheisers.

Thank you all very much for at least taking the time to read this far!