speakers

[Steve Laramie]

Can anyone point me in the right direction of a good set of speakers for editing. Not specializing in sound editing but something good for an all round fcp editor.

 

[Jim Brennan]

I use M-Audio 4" powered speakers. Cant remember the model. I think I paid 200 for them. Thay are far from high end, but they work for me.

 

[Macville]

I've the the KRK Rokit 5's. Pretty accurate for video work. They really do reveal alot more "information" that's hidden in my sound. I think I paid $200 new for a pair on ebay two years ago.

Matthew

 

[Corby Evenson]

Along with speakers is a mixing board or other reciever necessary?

 

[Jim Brennan]

It depends on what you want to do. Powered speakers don't need any other help, but if you want input, that's another story. THere have been a number of threads about audio interfaces in this forum. I use a presonus firebox. Which is plenty for me. You can go bigger (more inputs), or get something with a dedicated mixing board. But for basic video/sound effects editing, you probably don't need that much.

 

[Sanchez]

I find a mixer very useful on the desktop to route different signals to the powered speakers so you can select what you want to monitor.

I use a little 12 channel berhinger ...

 

[jcskeeter]

sorry, not to thread-jack, but any opinions on different brands of mixers?

 

[jumpthewire]

Yamaha HS50M Active monitors ($299 each)
Mackie 1404

The new Mackie mixers have USB automation
(very cool)

 

[snowleopard]

Are we talking only stereo, or surround?

Yes, overall Mackies are awesome. When Kurzweil (highest end music workstation synth maker) calibrates their systems, they use Mackies.

 

[Steve Laramie]

I dont need suround sound I cant properly arrange 5 speakers and a sub woofer in my small editing room. also sorry for the dumb question as I am not a sound editor but find myself having to do sound more and more often. is a mixer really a good investment for an edit suite if you dont specialize in sound. I dont mind the fcp in computer mixer but I suppose things could run smoother with a mixer I can actualy manualy operate.

 

[Sanchez]

All I use a mixer for is merely for routing different signals into the powered speakers.

I use (2) computers side-by-side, so for instance I can monitor my audio/graphics workstation computer or my editing computer using the same powered speakers. I also have my digitizing DV deck's audio going through mixer to allow monitoring of the firewire deck's analog audio output during editing instead of the editing computer's audio output.