{"id":23315,"date":"2016-03-03T14:00:59","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/?p=23315"},"modified":"2017-04-04T11:33:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T09:33:44","slug":"studio-monitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/en\/gear\/studio-monitors\/","title":{"rendered":"Your first Studio Monitors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you want to set up your own home-studio and finally be able to record your own music? Getting some Studio Monitors<\/strong><\/a> would be a great place to start. As the name implies, studio monitors enable you to monitor and control the sound of your recordings. In this article\u00a0we will mainly be\u00a0referring to Active Nearfield Monitors,<\/strong><\/a> as they are the models most frequently found in home-studios.<\/p>\n

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How much do they differ from hi-fi speakers?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Linearity<\/span><\/p>\n

Unlike hi-fi speakers that boost the highs and lows for more punchy sounds, studio monitors should be as linear as possible.<\/strong> This means that the sound should be as accurate as possible without colouring the sound, nor should it favour any frequency or frequencies over others, in order to ensure you obtain a flat frequency response<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Diffusion<\/span><\/p>\n

Studio monitors (again unlike hi-fi speakers) are very directional<\/strong>. Each room has its own particular acoustics with reflected sounds bouncing off of a combination of the walls, the ceiling and every piece of furniture in the room. The larger the room, the smaller the chance of reflected sounds interfering with the direct sound. The purpose of the monitors is to target the direct sound<\/strong> as close to the proximity of your ears as possible. This is where the importance of positioning the monitors comes in.<\/p>\n

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Choices?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Active or passive?<\/span><\/p>\n

Studio monitors are mostly active<\/strong> these days, with passive speakers slowly disappearing. Active monitors are equipped with multiple amplifiers in such a way that individual amps drive individual speakers<\/strong>. This means that the crossover is placed before the amplifier stage instead of after. The benefits are enormous, saving space, simplifying connections and with amplification designed especially for each speaker.<\/p>\n\n\t\t