Which is the best Monitor for home studio ?

[Digital Network]

Hello,

I wonder this : Which is the best monitor to make mastering in my home studio ? Currently, I have SAMSON Resolv 65a but ...

[bob katz]

Originally Posted by Digital Network

Hello,

I wonder this : Which is the best monitor to make mastering in my home studio ? Currently, I have SAMSON Resolv 65a but ...

This should also become some kind of an FAQ!

Mastering should be approached as a means to make accurate judgments on sound quality, which requires good acoustics, monitors with wide frequency range and low distortion/good headroom, experience and perspective.

This does not mean that by suddenly buying a pair of wide range monitors and throwing them on top of your mixing desk you are "ready to master." So I suggest that before you take a look at some of the monitor names mentioned in some of the threads here, that you begin to orient yourself as to "what is mastering", the purpose of mastering and the goals.

In the second edition of my book, "Mastering Audio, The Art and the Science", I have an extended chapter on assessment of monitor quality, and another chapter on how professionals set up, align, position and measure monitor accuracy. It also recommends that you engage the services of a professional acoustician to design and analyze your room. There are also chapters that will get you started on the adventure of learning how to master audio, though there is no substitute for years of critical listening and it is very useful to train with an experienced mastering engineer.

There is even a chapter at the end which says that if you do NOT have high quality monitors and acoustics, but you have otherwise absorbed the concepts of mastering, you can venture to try to master a low budget project on your own in a less than ideal environment with less than ideal monitors, but with certain caveats that I get into.

If you are prepared for that adventure, then dig in!!! That's why I didn't suddenly recommend a bunch of monitor brands and I suspect other posters on your question will have similar questions for you before they mention them.

[Digital Network]

Thank you bob but I'm not a professional and I don't become a professional. I use mastering to present my releases to the different labels. I produce in Electro/techno music.

I buy your book immediatly ...