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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pete Thomas" data-source="post: 328027" data-attributes="member: 1"><p>[moved from a different thread]</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I have made some very good saxophone recordings using an SM57, so if you do have one around I also agree it is useful. Sorry to disagree jazzaferri.(In fact I did a session for REM and after a bit of experimenting, the producer and engineer decided to use SM57s on the saxophones and trumpet.</p><p></p><p>I think whatever the budget, the thing to bear in mind (and I may well be disagreeing with advice above but we can all have different opinions), it's best to not put too much budget into just one aspect, i.e. you should get a balance of quality.</p><p></p><p>e.g. don't put so much budget into you preamp, that the mic and or monitors are lacking. Don't put so much budget into monitors that your skimp on the preamp or mic. etc.</p><p></p><p>Having said that, if your monitors are the weak link, it's not so bad as something at the beginning being crap, because you could always do a remix once you can afford better monitors.</p><p></p><p>Hifi speakers can sometimes be OK, however even if very good quality (or <em><strong>especially</strong></em> if very good quality) then because they flatter the sound you end up with a mix that only sounds good when played back on those speakers. e.g. if the enhance/boost the low end a bit, your mix will lack low end on many other speakers.</p><p></p><p>This is why studio monitors are designed to be a "flat" response.</p><p></p><p>Good headphones are cheaper than good monitor speakers, and they don't have the big disadvantage you get with speakers in a home studio, i.e. a very far from optimally acoustic mixing environment. This is in fact the metaphorical elephant in the room because people tend to think the budget goes on mic, preamp, A/D converters and monitoring. But if the room acoustics then banjax your mix, that's a whole big part of the chain that you forgot about. (The good news is that most home rooms can be brought up to reasonable spec using DIY treatment)</p><p></p><p>Most of my work in my studio these days is for music for TV, and it used to be that I would mix for little TV speakers That's no longer the case what with spiffy home cinema systems so I mix as I would for anything, which involves mixing on the studio monitors, then checking back on headphones, my living room stereo, my TV, the car and a little bluetooth speaker. If it sounds good on all those then I know my monitors are doing the job.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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