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Originally posted by keybplayer:
"John Leventhal did the bulk of his mixing on a pair of small Radio Shack speakers. (Leventhal, a famous New York City-based guitarist, songwriter, and engineer, made his mark by producing Shawn Colvin's acclaimed 1989 record, Steady On.) Leventhal owns both a pair of Yamaha NS-10Ms and a pair of Radio Shack Optimus 7s. But he prefers the latter."

Mixing depends a great deal on the person doing the mixing. The speakers are only one part of the equation and as you can see from the above example, not necessarily the most important part either.

Best,
Mike


Exactly. The key word is "reference" monitors which seems like an oxymoron as no monitors are truly an accurate representation of the full frequency of a given piece of music without a Sub woofer yet many very good mixes came from and still come from those pesky Yamaha NSMs the Alesis (and others) used as a reference in their designs..

No monitors I know of with 8" drivers on the bottom will project 40hz physically into one's chest like a sub, Yet many created great mixes on them.
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