What's the best height for studio monitors? Answer - Not too low!
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- čas přidán 1. 08. 2020
- If your studio monitors are too low down, then you won't get the best sound. If you don't get the best sound, then you won't make the best mix. And having your monitors too low can cause other problems too. This video explains how to get your monitor height exactly right. Check out the Audio Masterclass Music Production and Sound Engineering Course at bit.ly/3W3tpKo
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David, first of all THANK YOU for these videos! They're all right on point.
Specifically thought, I think you are doing a great job of debunking the ocean of misinformation out there, on say CZcams.
But this time you are doing one better, and debunking the disaster that is Professional Audio company propaganda. People who should absolutely know better, and should really be leading the charge towards masses of new audio engineers that understand the fundamentals.
I would love to see you do a part two, more comprehensive version in which you show multiple advertisements committing the same audio sins.
Then explain whats wrong, and LINK to each of your videos explaining what the correct technique is in detail.
Either way though, thank you very much for what you've been doing.
Keep it up!
Excellent advise David! Thank you so much for all the great information you provide us with!
You're welcome.
Nice video by the way
Thank you. DM
Very interesting!!! As an audiophile with my own fully treated listening room i found that placing my speakers in a equilateral triangle, and the speaker height half way from floor to ceiling gives the biggest and best stereo image and 3D that completely fill the room, here's the part where 99% get it wrong, i had to build a small podium to get my ears to the same height as my speakers! I once bought a pair of Infinty IRS Beta, a dream speaker, I went to the guys house sat down in his listening chair and there was no image, i stood up and then heard the image, the midrange and tweeter on those speakers is 1.5m up form the ground. His loss, my gain.
Height is important. I currently use my B&W 801s in my living room on stands to get the right height. Previously I used them in my studio where I sat on an office chair. So my B&Ws were on stands, and the stands were on stands - actually cabinets I'd made with a handy drawer unit inside. DM
yo the nice guy from gearslu.. i mean gearspace is real. Thanks Lol
is it an issue to have the monitors placed higher (ear is on the same level as the sub) ? the issue is that the stands i have don't go lower :s
It isn't the best. If you can angle the monitors down that would be better. On the other hand, no speaker is perfect and it is always necessary to learn the characteristics of your monitors by listening carefully, for a long time, and often, to successful releases in your genre. You could consider the same about monitors that are slightly in the wrong position. DM
Will it make a big difference if my studio monitors are quite high up?
Your monitors really should be pointing at your ears. If they point from above or below it shouldn't make much difference, but I really do prefer horizontal. DM
Decoupler .. to remove the surface resonance.
Yes, that would be a nice addition to the adjustable desktop stand. DM
Oh yes, and while my mind is on the topic, the decoupler will be a damped mass-spring system where the speaker is the mass and the decoupler - which could be foam rather than anything expensive - is the damped spring. I seem to remember there's a formula that connects the deformation of the spring with the resonant frequency of the mass-spring system. But I can't remember it... Anyone? DM
Hey, Dude, do we really need to take and audio MASTERCLASS -- to figure out that the monitor should not be 5 meters above ear level and 2 metrers below ear level? No fricking way.