Steal 3 8361 for me please

Knowledge is always welcome.. For more you know more about sound you have always something to learn.. Keep yourself always humble.. Peace

I haven't tried the iLouds myself, but I hear they're quite good for their price.

I've always felt that way, and mentioned it a few times on the channel. But I probably don't say it enough. It seems to be a rare attitude in video production. Audio always takes a front seat in my own productions, but when I'm working with other companies it very often feels like an afterthought... lower quality gear, not having someone on staff specifically in charge of audio, or budgeting far less for an audio engineer than the camera operators seems more the norm than the exception.

@@djp_video I have done several small productions that don't even have an audio op. In the ones I have done that don't have a dedicated operator, the graphics or replay operator will run audio.

It starts fading in at about 0:34, mostly on the left channel, continues through 1:13. And then again from 1:40 through 2:19, and then from 2:50 through the end. You can hear the isolated tracks at kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pbudfKyql86pnGw.html (pre-chorus and chorus) and kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pbudfKyql86pnGw.html (chorus). The combination of those two parts along with everything else creates a mix with a lot going on and great studio monitors are needed to really be able to hear the individual parts in the mix.

I have. And I’m planning on doing so with my studio this time around as well.

@@djp_video Please produce a video about it!

@@mrjazzycharon2 When I get to that point I will.

I've never cared for the HS10s or their replacements personally. I put my 8030s in my office about a week ago so I can break them in and really get used to them. They're definitely a step up from my Mackie HR624s I have been using. They are mellowing out a little bit as I use them too.

That's the Blue Baby Bottle.

Thankfully they do last for forever, so the pain of paying for them doesn't have to be repeated.

@@djp_video so true. About to visit their factory soon. It is not far from where I live.

How much are a pair?

I agree with getting good audio over video. While the Genelecs are still out of my budget limitations, a year ago I switched to Kali LP-6 monitors and those have been great performers.

Genelecs aren't really that rare, but nobody is mixing in Dolby Atmos in my area yet.

There are great monitors from quite a few different manufacturers.

Personally I've moved toward wanting to hear things exactly as intended by the engineers, so I actually have studio monitors everywhere -- my office, home theater, trailer, etc. I've gotten spoiled by the great sound of monitors so I don't have a very high tolerance for consumer speakers or headphones that overemphasize portions of the audio spectrum, like the way overly boomy trend in consumer audio, especially headphones, that have dominated for the last decade or so. I can't stand them. They tend to mask a lot of what is going on. There will be quite a noticeable difference between your JBL 305s and anything from Genelec. The JBLs might have a relatively flat response, but that is only part of the equation. One of the big reasons that Genelecs (and similar quality monitors) sound better than less expensive monitors is that they pay so much attention to timing, transient response, and phase (among other things) in addition to the response curve. If you were to look at a waterfall plot for these speakers you'd see that the output signal is more accurate in every way, not just in overall frequency response. Higher quality monitors do a better job of (1) maintaining the phase relationship between frequencies, (2) handle not just the beginning but end of transients better (they start and stop reproducing signals more quickly, reducing resonances and distortions), (3) make sure that all frequencies arrive at your ears simultaneously as much as possible, and (4) that response is as even as possible across the soundfield rather than only sound good in a few sweet spots, just as a few examples. These things do wonders for producing a more transparent sonic image -- you can really hear more of what is going on in a mix than is possible with monitors where those things aren't as controlled. As far as the G Three or G Four the two big differences are going to be in the level of the lowest frequencies (the Four model will play lower frequencies louder) and the total output volume -- the Fours will be able to get noticeably louder than the Threes without distortion or limiting. The experience of going from good studio monitors to great studio monitors is kind of revealing, sort of like find that you've only been hearing 70% of what is there.

@@djp_video Thank you, I can tell you have a lot of passion of audio and studio monitors in general, I love the honest neutral sound, and I don’t mind a bad recording sounding bad, if it means my favourite “mastered” recordings sound even better, I’ve got a small bedroom, do you think going for the fours would be still an acceptable option given their size, if I’m trying to future proof myself from not spending 2k again

If you already have a subwoofer you'd probably be happy with the G Threes.

If I felt like I was qualified to talk about that I would. But I'm really not. I've gotten all of my work by word-of-mouth and none of the marketing efforts I've made have had any kind of measurable result. I'm really not a salesman and don't particularly care to be.

Most certainly yes

That hasn't been my experience. But they did mellow out a little bit after being broken in.

No, but you want the crossover point to be set such that you don't have both speakers trying to reproduce the same frequency ranges.

I got that one from woot.com: shirt.woot.com/offers/soundwaves

Yes. One of the switches on the back enables auto power on/off.

They show up in several videos, like this one... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nd6ahMimzM_SkYE.html

I believe they come with IEC power cables, but no audio cables.

Probably not if you want much volume.

If they're within your budget and you want to hear your music or other content the way it was heard by the person creating it, go for it! I use studio monitors on my main computer and in my home theater and visitors are blown away by the sound quality.

Not really. They don’t play the really low notes pretty much at all

@@djp_video Money better spent on a subwoofer I take it, thank you!

No

I never said it was ;) -- just that it had a mix which reveals issues in lower quality speakers.