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12th December 2003
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| Lives for gear Join Date: Jul 2003
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Thread Starter | Who uses Radio Shack Speakers to Mix on? I caont take this mackie hell no more. But i'm kinda stuck. cant really sell them till i find a suitable replacement, then find that repalcement for pretty cheap.. (so far, seems the BM6A's are the only ones that everyone seems to like) Anyway, i wanna take the middle road and get a pair of radio shackies to mix on, you know just for that 'if it sounds good on these...' keep in mind, i've never mixed on anything other then the dfegad macks.. |
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12th December 2003
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Bloomington Il
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| I have a little set of RS cubes. They're like three inches or something. I use them as my "clock-radio" test.
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12th December 2003
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: chicago
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| I have a Radshack 1/2-rack stereo line amplifier that's probably over 20 years old, still works great. Nice warm solid state distortion and riveting wood-grain decals. It is dope because it's Realistic. |
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12th December 2003
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Illinois
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| I bought a pair of RCA bookshelf speakers and a RCA reciever at Radioshack. One of the best investments I've made. I like being able to A/B them against my genelecs to get a completly different perspective. The funny thing was that the salesman at radioshack was all pumped up about how good the speakers were. I didn't have the heart to tell him that the reason I bought them was because how mediocre they sounded. |
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12th December 2003
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Midland TX
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| I have a pair of RCA badged shielded mons bought at Radio Shack...I think they are exclusive distributors for that line... Dave Martin posted a while back he uses Minimum 7s, a discontinued RS line... (FWIW: I also use a pair of Mini Advents I copped from my Dad for $5.00 the pair...looking at the back of them there is a showing they are Jensens...very cool sound, but they don't take a lot of power...)
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12th December 2003
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Lawn Guy Land
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| The replacement for the Minimus 7's is the RCA Pro-X44AV . Great for checking mixes on a "boombox" like system... As far as dumping Mackie's for Shackie's..... I'd hold my ground till the Cavalry comes! tutt
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12th December 2003
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| member no 666  Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Durham, NC
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| FWIW, I'm running ADAM S3-A's and a pair of RS speakers... they're bigger than the Minumus 7's... but equally effective.
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12th December 2003
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| Lives for gear Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Lawn Guy Land
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| Hey Fletcher... forgot to shave this morning man?  |
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12th December 2003
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| Gear addict  Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Bay Area, California
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| So the HR824's suck? Why? |
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12th December 2003
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| Gear addict  Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Woodland Hiils, CA
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| I dunno...I mix on Adams S2-As and always have these self powered Eridol MA-10Ds to reference on. I like that they have a volume and tone controls on the front, accept a digital input and look like a piece of shit. |
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12th December 2003
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Los Angeles
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| I love my combination of BM6A's and Minimus 7's. |
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12th December 2003
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| Gear addict  Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: ft lauderdale florida
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| used the Minimus 7's for years after the auratones blew up...now i find i like the audix 5s for my small reference..they are very even in the midrange and extended slightly on the top and low mids just like most boom boxes and car systems.
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12th December 2003
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| Gear addict  Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Philadelphia
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12th December 2003
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| Gear addict Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: New York City
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| Who uses Radio Shack speakers to mix.... I do! The RCA Pro-X44AV. $39.00 each. Great for going to towards the end of a mix. I *always* do the lead vocal rides listening through these. |
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12th December 2003
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Meadow Vista, CA
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 | The Sony flatscreen monitors that I bought this year have built in speakers... not bad for the clock radio effect. |
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12th December 2003
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: May 2003 Location: warsaw, poland
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| i use the sony tv build-in loudspeakers and belinea flatscreen's loudspeakers sometimes i play the bounced mix with quicktime and hear it from g3's speaker from the machine room... |
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12th December 2003
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Beantown
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| Another option is those cheapo $30 sub woofer and tiny satelite systems they`re selling with computers these days. You gotta figure about half the market are probably using those things these days with MP3s and everything. |
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12th December 2003
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Berlin / Germany
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13th December 2003
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| Gear addict Join Date: Sep 2003
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| I mixed 2 cd's on Minimus 7's and they were great. Just had to be aware that the top end was a bit hyped - but nice sounding speakers. For me an effective way to mix is ~soft~ on ~small~ and ~shitty~ speakers - and of course then have larger nice things to switch over to for comparison, but do most of the work on the small speakers. Nice things: Barbetta Divas. Fantastic! If you can get Tony to make a pair - do it. Beautifuilly and musically balanced and non-fatiguing. http://www.barbetta.com I do not work for them. But a while back - on a powered near-field safari - I listened to (seemingly) everything - Genelecs etc. Nothing did it - then I heard the Divas. Yeah! Bought them immediately. |
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13th December 2003
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| Gear addict Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Bay Area, California
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| I mix with my HR824's and bounce a file in DP to mp3 and play it through my Harmon speaker system for the mac to audition it. I like the HR824's, but sadly thats all I know.
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13th December 2003
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| Gear addict  Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Bowie, MD
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| The Minimus 7s are still a fav for many styles I mix. BTW, Ed - good to see you here!! |
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13th December 2003
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Here is the place to be. I miss that little chipmunk. | |
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13th December 2003
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Thread Starter | Quote:
just very very bad translation. its like hiring a guy from Turkey to translate for your Taiwanese cousin. The amount of cd's i've spent comparing them from one system to another could buy me a pair of Earthworks... I'm curious... how much time do people spend on the Radio Shacks to mix their songs on... do you toggle btn those and a pair of Genels, macks, Etc? I do primarily urban stuff and can use the Wacks to check the low end (or at least to hear it), but the upper mids is whats driving me nuts.. Hey Ed- are the RS your primary monitors to mix on? | |
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13th December 2003
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Torrance, CA
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 | Hey what're you guys using to power the RCA's? I was looking at those a while back, but I didn't know anybody who had checked them out in a studio environment (sadly, at Radio Shack when I asked to hear them, the guy simply said "they're not hooked up"  ). I ended up with powered NHT's.
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13th December 2003
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Thread Starter | Quote:
Hey Slipperman - what else do you use to check if your mixes will work (besides gen.)? | |
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13th December 2003
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13th December 2003
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Control Room
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| YO... If y'all wanna get into some SERIOUS ghetto gearsnobbery, **** Radio Shack... Technics SB-LX50's are the izzo for serious ghetto monitoring. Listen at low levels with the lows cut a bit (-1 or -2dB) and the highs cut a bit more (-4dB), and they're "ghetto-nearfields" deluxe. Crank the shit outta them at flat levels, and you've got housequake for your weekend houseparty. I got mine from Avi at Sound Of Market Street for $120/pair. And yo, the mixes DO translate. Just ask Dave Bryce. The brother had to set his Masterlink on "Destroy" to get my mix down to his ADAM-using bretherin. YMMV. |
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15th December 2003
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Thread Starter | Quote:
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? | |
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