hello it's measuring day as I've stated previously I have wanted a pair of NS
tents for going on 15 years now longer than that honestly since I was a
teenager I have wanted a pair of Yamaha and instance and now I'm happy to say I
have a pair in my studio and I'm super pumped about it no I got the speakers on
reverb comm I bought them from a shop out in LA
sinem to me the speakers are in great shape I ordered a power amp from
Abington the CLA 200 and look at it the CLA 200 the first one I got
unfortunately got damaged in shipping so I had to replace it or exchange it out I
with the vintage Kino audios where I ordered it from they were super cool
about it totally understood helped me switch it out for a new one they gave me
a new one free of charge it was a total piece of cake so now I have this awesome
power and these awesome speakers everything is hooked up everything works
it's in good shape now here comes the interesting part I have listened to NS
tens in multiple studios over the years I have been in some really really nice
studios within those tenants and they sound awesome
however NS tens do have a specific sound to them most of the studio monitors that
are in anybody's home studio if they're not in s tens anything that's that's
powered and newer most of the time is going to be a little bit rounder fuller
bodied and more forgiving the NS tens are harsher more mid-range e and they
just have a very specific sound to them now the argument is if you can get a
song to sound good on a pair of NS tens it'll sound good just about anywhere and
that's one of the reasons that so many studios have them there
really difficult to get to sound good but that's also one of the reasons why I
got a pair I want to get better as a mix engineer I want to get better as a sound
designer and I thought if I first of all I like the way in essence have sounded I
have liked the way in a sense of sounded to my ears in the past in some of the
nicer studios I've been in I have watched records I've worked on be mixed
by Grammy winning people multi-platinum selling mix engineers on NS tens and
they sound incredible also if it works for that many people who were at the top
of the game surely it can work for me too so I had
this great pair of speakers I had this great amp it was designed to go with the
new version of NS 10 that chris lord-alge ii has helped design is
basically a reissue of the old traditional speaker so for all intents
and purposes it's made for NS tens have a killer setup now this comes into play
so the speakers I had before the NS tens were a pair of event to the reference 8
I believe and they were a lot more forgiving than these speakers they're
also a lot more full-bodied and the cone on those speakers so when you're sitting
between two speakers as I am here you can't see them both their forms a
triangle and your head should be at one corner of the triangle and the two
speakers should be at the other two corners now arguably is a starting point
for every setup you want to have an equilateral equidistant triangle so the
distance distance between the cones of the two speakers should be the same as
the distance between this speaker on the right and my head and this speaker on
the left in my head every side of the triangle should be the same and every
angle should technically be the same when you do this within us tends the
cone can get a little vicious because there's so much mid-range a lot of guys
will choose to angle them either a little bit more outward or a little bit
more inward to set koan either here or here so that it
doesn't meet right at your hip because it can get a little bit overwhelming
because of the bump at two and a half K so what I'm doing today with this is I'm
going to make sure that everything about this speaker setup is equidistant I'm
gonna measure from the wall to the speaker on the right from the wall to
the speaker on the left I'm gonna measure every corner of the speaker from
the wall in the back to that corner on each side I'm gonna measure the stands
from the walls on both sides to make sure that everything is equidistant from
the sides of the room the back of the room the center of the monitor
everything and then from that point I will make sure that they are angled
precisely the same as well so that I can ensure that the cone where these two
speakers meet will be either right here or right here behind my head so that
when I sit to mix to listen I will be in the perfect spot for my room and my pair
of speakers so that is the goal let's get to it
or I'll set up this guy came in very handy you would think that something as
small as an eighth of an inch here or there would not make much of a
difference and for the longest time I totally subscribe to that like I throw
them up it'll be fine like a that big a deal
just turn them so they're kind of facing you and they look about the same and it
feels about the same and it'll be alright and there is a fair amount of
truth to that however the top 10% of anything lies in
the details and the people who achieve the top top 1% of anything are those who
are willing to put in the effort that it takes for a marginal increase that 0.1%
increase you go to rehearsal every day you go to practice every day for gains
of 0.1 percent sometimes and that is what separates those who are great from
those who are good I want to be great so it is worth it to me to put the energy
into these very very tiny details that most people would think are
insignificant and not worth paying attention to for me they are I pay
attention to all of those little things like this because I believe that all of
those added up over time will equal out to me being great at my craft and that's
what I'm after so now everything is absolutely equidistant from the side
walls from the back wall from the center of the monitor
they are angled exactly the same and the cone from these two speakers if I sit
right here lean back I am directly equidistant from the khuns as they are
from if I sit up here it hits right behind my
head which gives me the option to sit and listen like this so the cone hits me
back here or I can sit and listen like this so it come hits me directly or I
could simply slide back a few inches and the cone will hit in front of me that
gives me three different mix positions to guess and register what's about
what's going on in my mesas and that's huge
so yeah this is this is worth my time and this I think is going to pay off in
much better music getting put out in the near future so I hope this helps you too
if you are looking at how to address or fix your monitoring setup this is a
great place to start tape measure and just make sure everything's even start
from there you can go down the rabbit hole of gear so let's calm lord knows I
do all the time there are a lot of people on there who a much smarter and
more informed than I am I highly recommend it and if you want to go super
nerdy there are all kinds of room calculators and stuff that you can get
into online as well so I hope this helps thanks for watching I'll see you next
time
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