One thing that is often overlooked by most of the owners of studio recording (from the smallest home studio the largest installations multi-room) is like the screens are located. You can make a big difference in the frequency balance and stereo field, and although it should be directed to those things before in a serious listen, it is usually only later abandoned when something does not sound right. Here are some things to experience what it takes toexact correct position for your room. May not be surprised to see that the speakers did not breath very useful before suddenly feel alive.
A. Go the distance between the screens.
If the exhibition include the stereo field is lubricated by a definition of free space. If the screens are too far apart, the focal point or "sweet spot" too far behind you and you feel left or right, but notLet the two together. A rule that the speaker should be as far apart as the distance from the listening position is, if you're a meter away from the screen, and then start moving over 4 feet .. You can adjust in or out there.
B. Check T he corner of the monitor.
Angle will be wrong again smearing the stereo, which means ultimately there is a tool for the lack of definition to listen to. Thecorrect angle is strictly determined by taste, with some mixers prefer to follow directly the slope of their mix, while others prefer to put the node (the point where the sound of the speakers shows the convergence) approximately 3-12 centimeters behind them to take Some of 'Hype' from the speakers (if any).
C. Check your eyes screens are installed.
Shield, which is mounted directly on top of a console meter bridgeor on a desktop computer without decoupling is subject to comb filter effects, especially on the low side. This is the sound moves through the console, or desktop, and then through the floor before reaching the ears sounds directly from the monitor through the air (because it is closer to the materials, and travel speed), causing phase cancellation. It may be more or less severe depending on where the speakers are mounted directly on the meter bridge or metal desk or mounted on apiece of carpet or like material, meter metal bridge (most popular). The best way to decouple the monitor is the same method when mounting the head armed guards in September Close fields by half or 3 / 4 "piece of open cell neoprene (rubber) and the connection will not be a problem.
D. The position of the speaker to control the display.
Most mixers prefer that the speakers point of two or three-way system to the outside worldthus widening the stereo field. Sometimes, wise speakers within the work, but usually results in patches of stereo image. Experiment with both, but because you never know.
E. Check t he desktop or the console itself.
The angle on the desktop or console, type of material used for panels, buttons, keyboards and switches, the type of paint and the size and composition of the armrest all make a difference in sound caused by reflectionsIf the phase noise near the back fields at the top of a desk or a meter bridge is unacceptable. and try to pass everything with charges to be on his desk or console (be sure to decouple them.)
A near-field monitors can sometimes get a bad rap because of efforts to these questions, a little 'testing is in order before we can say that a screen does not work for you .. You will be surprised that a difference of one centimetersometimes can do.