Re: Mackie HR824's
Yeh sorry, you dont want them to sound like shit to be honest. That will give you no idea of what your mixing to. You'll constantly be compensating for the shittyness of the boxes and when played on anything else, it will just seem kinda odd. What you want is complete clarity, stupidly perfect monitors which show up any noises in your system, bring up hiss on the most professional of recordings. You want everything over exagerated, so it shows up all the problems with your system and your mix. If you can then engineer all that out of your mix and get it sounding good on your monitors then you'll have it perfect on any other speakers anywhere.
Your best bet is somthing by Genelec. Even the lower end of their range will show you a dramatic difference. It will allow you to mix to a whole new level. They have even shown up hiss for me, on some older (but not too old) EMI recordings. I mean they're not music listerning hi-fi speakers at all, they're perfect studio monitors. However the Mackie's are very much just a nice hi-fi speaker, they're not studio designed at all, i mean, they are but, hey, they suck, just the wrong sound. Try and get hold of a pair of Genelec Monitors.
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