A few weeks ago I made a little post about how my birthday is coming up and all and I had give a budget of about 400. Well, friends pitched in and I now have almost 700$. I'm very fucking shocked but that's asides the point. My initial plan with the lower budget was to get both an acoustic guitar and a 88 key midi so I can teach myself piano. However with a higher budget I have access to so much more, including decent monitors and a sound card. The problem is if I pursue the monitor route, I may not have enough money to buy a keyboard, which to me it's important to apply music theory and learn that instrument because I want to be a musician, not simply just a producer. On the contrast, I am having a very colorized sound when producing as I produce on consumer headphones. So my mixes are very biased and sound different in various systems.
After doing some basic monitor research, I've come down to the Yahmaha HS5's and the native instruments or focusrite interface or the old rotkit 5s. My main question - are the old rotkit 5s comparable to the Yahmahas? The rotkits at cheaper and I get 2 for basically the price of one Yahamah. This means I can buy a keyboard as well. But I don't want to spend it on "meh" monitors when I can simply wait a few months and earn enough money to buy the keyboard of choice.
What would you do? Do you have any input on monitors in a similar price point of the Yahmahas that you recommend are better? I am very clueless and new to all of this, I'm open to anything. Thanks so much!
Submitted September 19, 2017 at 07:48AM by jakelille https://www.reddit.com/r/edmproduction/comments/71254z/ive_come_into_a_lot_more_money_than_anticipated/?utm_source=ifttt
Javier Rodriguez
Tuesday, September 19, 2017