My room is a pretty small dorm room, it's half the size of a normal dorm room since it's a single room. I have a large piece of carpet which covers 90% of the floor. Roughly 6 ft X 12 ft. I face the 6 ft wall in the back and my speakers reflect against the 6 ft wall in the back. With the 12ft length, there is remarkably little "bad reflection" (the metallic, FM sounding noise you get when you clap your hands loudly in a badly treated room with lots of reflection).
I use my AKG 7XX's for producing. I am getting tired of the ear fatigue from producing with these. Also occasionally an effect such as a delay effect, vocoder, etc. gives me volume spikes which are annoying and sometimes slightly painful.
I want some acceptable-quality monitors, not to replace my AKG 7XX's while mixing / leveling, just for the composition / arrangement / sound design parts of a track. I have heard I can get away with smaller monitors in a smaller room. Any advice here?
I would like some low end but my AKG 7XX's have excellent low end extension so if that is substantially more expensive I can pass. And I have also read that I can get away with less bassy speakers in smaller rooms.
I also want my monitors to double for gaming just because they would sound much fuller than my laptop speakers.
Also would it be OK to have them a bit above ear level? My desk has this weird bookshelf attachment on it which is the only place I could put my monitors. They would be an inch or 2 above ear level and with monitor stands they would be even taller.
Submitted November 28, 2017 at 12:41PM by waywardpcbuilder629 https://www.reddit.com/r/edmproduction/comments/7g4ziz/monitor_advice_for_tiny_room/?utm_source=ifttt
Javier Rodriguez
Tuesday, November 28, 2017