Hello,
I am currently experiencing a minor annoyance with my Mackie MR624 studio monitors.
I have the RME ADI 2 FS as my dac/amp and I use balanced XLR to power my monitors. The analyzer is very useful on the dac for this scenario.
I am finding that 80% of kick-drums that peak at 1Khz sound way too forward. Is this a characteristic of studio monitors, or a room problem such as a peak?
The drivers (the front of the speaker) of my studio monitors are 70cm away from the rear wall and they are toed in. I would like them to be a bit further away from the wall, but this is as good as I can get them.
In terms of EQ, I have a -1db low shelf filter, Q 0.7 at 1.7kHz. (That goes all the way down to 20kHz)
I have tried changing this low shelf filter to start at 1kHz, but that made the 'kicks' of drums at 1kHz sound even more forward. Not sure why. (Resonance peak?)
I dont really like this particular forwardness to the kick sound, it sounds very unnatural to me in the mix. I listen to a lot of different electronic music and I am finding this forwardness problem to be mostly consistent no matter what song I pick across 20-30 different artists.
I've also tried -1dB peaking filter Q1.0 and Q1.4 and Q2.0 (just for the sake of it) directly at 1kHz but the kicks still sound too forward and its sort of driving me mental. Asides from this, I love the sound of my studio monitors. A lot.
Any tips or ideas as to how to fix this?
thanks ASR,
Square
I am currently experiencing a minor annoyance with my Mackie MR624 studio monitors.
I have the RME ADI 2 FS as my dac/amp and I use balanced XLR to power my monitors. The analyzer is very useful on the dac for this scenario.
I am finding that 80% of kick-drums that peak at 1Khz sound way too forward. Is this a characteristic of studio monitors, or a room problem such as a peak?
The drivers (the front of the speaker) of my studio monitors are 70cm away from the rear wall and they are toed in. I would like them to be a bit further away from the wall, but this is as good as I can get them.
In terms of EQ, I have a -1db low shelf filter, Q 0.7 at 1.7kHz. (That goes all the way down to 20kHz)
I have tried changing this low shelf filter to start at 1kHz, but that made the 'kicks' of drums at 1kHz sound even more forward. Not sure why. (Resonance peak?)
I dont really like this particular forwardness to the kick sound, it sounds very unnatural to me in the mix. I listen to a lot of different electronic music and I am finding this forwardness problem to be mostly consistent no matter what song I pick across 20-30 different artists.
I've also tried -1dB peaking filter Q1.0 and Q1.4 and Q2.0 (just for the sake of it) directly at 1kHz but the kicks still sound too forward and its sort of driving me mental. Asides from this, I love the sound of my studio monitors. A lot.
Any tips or ideas as to how to fix this?
thanks ASR,
Square