Mixing with my Adam A5's, there's no way I could get the bass right without a sub. For me, it's invaluable.

I appreciate your channel. Many of the audio channels out here have a snooty, know-it-all vibe. In your case, you clearly know a lot, yet are sharing the info in a way that is helpful and not self-serving. I'll keep watching!

Very informative! Answered all my questions super easily. Thank you!

Thanks for the education about subs. Very helpful.

I'm adding a Sub10 to my A7X monitors today. This video is GOLD! Thanks for posting!

I totally agree with you re having a subwoofer. Our ears hear sounds much lower than virtually all regular loudspeakers and monitors will produce, so why wouldn’t people want to be able to hear what’s going on in productions. Like you say, it’s not about having more bass although, being pedantic, there will be more bass but it’s only because of the extra extension you will get form adding a sub. Life is full of subsonic noise... just like many tweeters go way above the human hearing range - there’s a reason they do, it’s all about not being able to detect cut-off, which also adds to the overall sonic ambience. Go into any high street and take note of a large HGV lorry moving along in heavy traffic, few speakers (other than subs) will be able to reproduce the low end frequencies you’ll be hearing from the lorry’s exhaust note alone. Many synthesisers are capable of producing incredibly low frequencies, so I’d say it’s best to be able to hear them as they should be heard.

Wow! Really useful info, you have a new subscriber! 😀

Great vid! Not enough of this out there :)

Hey man thanks for sharing valuable information.

Great information man I just started not liking my mixes as i heard em in other speakers and was wondering if a subwoofer would help get better mixes

Really insightful video, thanks for this. I'm currently trying to work out what purchases to make for my studio and I'm really struggling on the monitor part of it. I've narrowed it down to either Yamaha HS8's or Presonus E8 XT's and no sub, or an E5 XT + a sub. Thing is, the room isn't great - maybe 12 square meters and all the conventional knowledge says get smaller monitors and definitely have no sub. But bass is really important to me, not like emphasized and overpowering bass, but like you talked about: even representation all the way down. It's doing my head in trying to make this decision, but if what you're saying here works then there might be a chance. I might just buy a sub and reference 4 no matter what monitors I end up choosing, then do my best at treating the room and see how far that gets me.

Love your studio man!

Thanks for the value

Hey did you do that next video on subwoofer placement?? Also can you do something more detailed on measurement like you were talking about with the pink noise?? Thanks.

Hi, I have the A7X and dual sub8. I would like to know the settings on your monitors and subs.

Thanks for the video! I'm considering getting a subwoofer as my 5" monitors lack some low end. My room is pretty small though, so still figuring out how I would go about setting it up properly.

Adam. I'm planning to get a pair of Yamaha HS7, which is a cheap studio monitor. I'll use it mainly for playing music or guitar with amp sim. I don't record or mixing anything. It just happens nowadays I prefer a flat frequency speaker for my PC than a multimedia one. My room, where I put my PC, is just a normal room and doesn't have any sound dampening material like studio. If I put HS7 in my room, do you think it will sound more awful compared to multimedia speaker ? Do you think I need a subwoofer ? Thanks for your answer.

I have Same speaker , Adam a7x and Adam Sub 8, Do you think it's good idea to use another sub ( dual sub ) ?

2 of these would be dope.

great quality video and info deserves more views

How good can a PreSonus Temblor T10 subwoofer be for an Adam A7x? I think the Adam Sub10 is very fragile without a grid and even expensive.

I’m using the JBL 308 monitors currently. Thoughts on those and what I might be missing? I’m feeling like I’m still lacking detail I want on my high and low end.

thank you thank you thank you

Hello, I have my sub Adam 10 "MK2 And ADAM S2V couple in my homestudy, the fact is that I have it in the center between my two monitors, under my desk, if I leave it with the 0 ° phase and with sonarworks, the graph gives me a + -3db waveform up and down, between 100 Hz and 28 Hz. And if I change it to phase 180 °, I have a +6 dbs rise in the graph, from 80 Hz at 28 Hz. No waveform, all this measured in the whole room The question is that with phase at 0 °, as the graph says, At ear, I perceive less serious, and with the phase at 180 ° I perceive more serious. My question is, which of the two configurations do you think would be in the correct phase? I'm lost.

Hi, I am Lilo Kwanza From Angola(Africa) so, i was watching your video and i got some question for u! appart Adams subwoofers which one would u use??? which brand and why?? i used to see their products on instagram but since i never saw people using, i thought were not nice products for studio... u just use Adam's subwoofers or u use their monitors as well???

can anybody chime in please, i have some adam audio a8x 8" and recently bouht a adam t10s to pair with the a8s, did i make the right purchase? i deal with a lot of 8098s sub bass etc i am new to this.

Do you have a video on room calibration like you mentioned towards the end?

Hi, I am thinking of getting a second Sub8 for my setup. Will there be significant improvement compared to just one. Hope to hear your thoughts on the idea.

Nice info

I have read that the crossover point on those specific monitors are 50 and not 85 as you mentioned. I have the same ones. Maybe I’m mistaking?

Hallo und grüße aus Deutschland. Ich habe das Setup Adam Audio A4 und Sub8. Ich habe mit Sound ID for 2.0 Setup meine A4V+ Sub8 kalibriert. Bedingt das ich mein Tonstudio im Schlafzimmer aufgebaut habe habe ich einen großen Peak trotz 6 Basstraps bei 35 Herz und weiß daher nicht wie ich das Lautstärkenverhältnis zwischen Sub und Monitor einstellen soll. Und ist es besser den Knopf hinten am Sub einzuschalten damit 85 Hertz einen Highpassfilter für die Monitore immer eingestellt ist ? Grüße Carsten alias Buttschy EDM Producer

I'm surprised that you've gone down the 'sub + smaller speakers' route, because on video at least, your room looks relatively large. I'm looking at doing the same, borrowed a friend's sub before he sold it to upgrade and the transformation to the quality of the sound in my [partly treated] room was remarkable. And that was with 8" mid/bass driver monitors, so not the smallest of speakers. Everything sounded and weirdly even felt just far tighter and more even from about 150 Hz down. I know it's often said that 'bass isn't directional so sub placement doesn't matter' [don't think I completely agree, matters less is probably closer to the truth]. Do you think the position of the woofer in the sub matters, woofer on the bottom compared to on the front?

I have a pair of Adams T5V. They're set up in a home office environment and sound 'good' but could a sub improve matters in the mid to high end? They're sat on a desk very near the wall and as it's a working office / hobby room (12'x10'), room treatment just isn't going to happen. I'd like a T10s sub but cost is prohibitive. What third party subs in a lower price bracket would you recommend to go with the T5Vs? Thanks.

hiphop and r&b. i always used a sub with sattelites

Hi Hot Pole Studios, just came across your video on my search for a subwoofer to use in conjunction with my NS10’s:-). Are you still happy with this Ada, subwoofer? Would you still recommend it perhaps with the NS10’s? Thanks in advance.

Good

Thought i got no uses of em. Until i play synth with geetah....

yoooooooo they share my namesake too! cheers mate :)

yo my studio sub say...low pass freq..what should i set it to? 50hz to 150hz

my friendd sell ada a8x with adam sub8 , does it suit well doesnt it need bigger sub like 12, or sub 8 will do fine with adam a8x

so why did you choose the sub8 over the 10 just curious cuz I have the same setup now

so , using an active sub with amplified passive speakers would be a real mess?

Do you have to get the brand as your monitors ?

Is 28Hz enough?!

so why did you choose the 8 instead of the 10? I didn't hear the answer to that one.

Utred??

dude that mic is 300$? damn!

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You didn’t explain why you went for the 8 rather than 10 inch as you promised 😢

You should rename your Studio and Channel: Hot Paula Studios. Is way hotter!

Chav car 'sound systems' that impress check out girls from Asda, or dub reggae and weed.

does a7x match the sub 12 adam? i have RCF mytho6 6.5inch and get sub 12 adam from my friend,, can they match correctly?

I love sub woofers but is it not flawed if you mix for sun woofers and then people who buy the music don't own sub woofers ? Don't get me wrong I think everyone should invest in sub woofers and a dedicated sound setup ... But most people want music on the go on trash headphones

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😮Complete bullshit. You don’t need a subwoofer for mixing, and are most likely hurting your mixes by incorporating one. Professional 🎉studios in large part don’t use them (for mixing anyway). NS10’s, the industry standard for decades, only got down to 60hz, which still covers the fundementals of bass. Jarre could not be a more irrelevant voice on the subject, and dusting him off will not fly here. The strategy is to have other references-another pair of reference monitors, hifi speakers, quality headphones…your phone, these are all indespensable for mixing. Now, if you can calibrate your room and monitor + sub setup properly, I wouldn’t argue against having one as an added reference, but it still wouldn’t be necessary to have and should stay switched OFF the majority of the time.

fuck this. you should not have to tweak hz´s here and there post-production or whatever....ALL YOU NEED IS if whatever you record sounds good in your car stereo..it´s fine

dude, your monitors are too high ... you cant benefit from the ribbon tweeters in any way...

just say it clear: this video IS SPONSERED by adam. it's dishonesty how you twist and not putting it straight on the table.