Who uses Radio Shack Speakers to Mix on?

[Jason Poulin]

The HR824's do NOT suck dfegad

I find that are very accurate and great for adjusting reverbs and pin pointing tight Q settings for hard to hear frequencies.

Sure they are a bit confusing on the bass side but, listen to your favourate mixes on them and you'll be able to A/B from your mix to the other.

Also, carry another set of speakers in your studio so that you can A/B with those as well.

We even have a set of B&W's wired through a home stereo to give us an idea of what "the stereo" feel is.

Hey, I'd love to run a couple wires to my car and be able to mix in there! hahaha

Good Luck!

Ps: don't dump the HR824's

Jason

[Umlaaat]

well, the bass is not the problem for me.. the mid highs are.. where cross stick happens.

i just heard a pair of the dynaudio bm15a's on the strength of what some posters said in comparison to the wacks..

they ****ing ***KILLED*** them... murdered them. for breakfast lunch and a snack.

really, i could not believe it.

u gotta understand, i'm coming from a budget thats allowed me only the wacks for the past 3 years, nothing else to really refence to. (kinda why i started this thread... to get a cheap pair of somethings to mix on) dont really know what imaging is, except what text tells me.

but i do have pretty good ears, and what the rep played thru the wacks and what he played thru the dynaudios (commercial cd) was night and daylight..

[Jay Kahrs]

And the really sick thing is that the passive Dyn's are DAMN affordable. Like half the cost of their active brothers. Of course you need a solid amp but still...

[Umlaaat]

whats a good amp to use?

[Curious G]

Originally posted by Umlaaat
hey Curious -

I tried to lok up the sx, but could not find anything on it.. Do you have any links for it or any other amps that would aork well with the RCA's?

The Pioneer amp is just an old consumer tuner that was lying around.

I use a small speaker mix to check the mids to see, for example, if a snare is poking out too much in a mix. At my studio that doesn't require anything special from an amp. I like the RCA cubes because they have a single 4" speaker. I think they might be discontinued now but I bought a half dozen of them when they cleared them out at $9 a pop.

These cubes don't replace my other reference monitors; Quested 2108's or Tannoy NFM-8.

[cdbutler]

I use the Yamaha A100a to hear the crappy-ness of my RCA-branded RS cubes in all its glorious detail.