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chriscoleman · 20th October 2005

Like another before me said: many levels to go, but...

The most recent mixing upgrade came from going on a forced monitor quest. I was pretty comfy with Mackie 824's (6 or 7 years on them, stuff translated okay, etc.) BUT, I wanted to check the market to see what was out there.

I tried passive Dynaudio BM15's with a Hafler 9505, NS10's, Truth Audio TA-1P's, and finally some JBL LSR6328p's. The JBL's are staying for the time being - but the musical-chairs-monitor-experience opened my ears up to the fact that I can get mixes done on pretty much anything. All mixes done on all the monitors translated very well.

Now, my setup is:
- JBL LSR6328p's
- cheap-o sub
- cheap-o boombox from Memorex that looks like a member of the iPod family (sum to mono, send a mix to this puppy, get your mix roughed out and you're 95% there)

20th October 2005	#49
chriscoleman Lives for gear Joined: Feb 2005 Location: Denver, CO Posts: 548	Like another before me said: many levels to go, but... The most recent mixing upgrade came from going on a forced monitor quest. I was pretty comfy with Mackie 824's (6 or 7 years on them, stuff translated okay, etc.) BUT, I wanted to check the market to see what was out there. I tried passive Dynaudio BM15's with a Hafler 9505, NS10's, Truth Audio TA-1P's, and finally some JBL LSR6328p's. The JBL's are staying for the time being - but the musical-chairs-monitor-experience opened my ears up to the fact that I can get mixes done on pretty much anything. All mixes done on all the monitors translated very well. Now, my setup is: - JBL LSR6328p's - cheap-o sub - cheap-o boombox from Memorex that looks like a member of the iPod family (sum to mono, send a mix to this puppy, get your mix roughed out and you're 95% there)