witch reference monitors for video editing

I strongly recommend the MAudio series of monitors. Genelec 1029's are great too, we have both. I love the Maudio, great sound in small and affordable package.

I do love the Genelecs.
Peter

So I have to check out the Genelecs .
Any idea's for a vo mic someone from an other forum suggested the Alesis 3630

I agree with Kevin, the Mackie's are excellent speakers, too.

I use an Electrovoice RE27 for almost all my voice over work and love it. It has a warm, full sound that appeals to me, and is one of the most durable mics made.

Best,

John Hartney
Fox Valley Digital Video
847.608.1357

The Alesis 3630 is a horribly noisy compressor, but works if you are on a tight budget. For the same cost, you can get a single channel DBX unit, or a single channel Rolls unit that will be much cleaner.

Ahhhhh... I knew that number sounded familiar. I actually was dumb enough to buy one. Can't think of 'anything' I would use it on, and it's not worth selling. The guy who designed the color scheme should be lynched publicly (you can't read it even in good lighting. I consider it to definitely be the worst thing that Alesis ever made.

There was a thread aksing about headroom the other day. Well the 3630 doesn't have any. It's terrible, and that's coming from someone who has to put up with a lot of budget equipment in his studio (due to the lack of budget).

However, for about $200 you can get the RNC 1773 from (RNC stands for "Really Nice Compressor" :)FMR Audio. You won't be able to touch the quality of this compressor with anything under five times it's price. It's the best kept compressor secret out there.

I have one in at home and we have six more at the studio, next to our distressors. It will keep yu acoustics and vocals absolutely flat without any noticeable pumping or breathing.

A common trick for many years was to chain compressors to get lot's of compression without pumping or breathing. Well that's the theory behind the way this compressor works (when in 'supernice' mode). I can't recommend it highly enough.

It's develpoed by a guy (with a background in designing very high end compressors) who designed it and started manufacturing it in his garage. It was originally designed as a project for his students (he teaches audio electronics design), but the darned thing worked so well that people began clamoring for them, so the RNC was born.

It's only downfall is that it operates at +10 and uses a wall wart, but both of thise things keeps the cost down. But regardless, it's a very clean sounding unit with very low noise and plenty of headroom.

Your money would be far better spent on one of these than the alesis piece of garbage. It blows the alesis comp out of the water by a long long ways.

Did you mean -10? +10 would be hotter than balanced +4. I'm guessing the RNC doesn't have balanced I/O???

Sorry, -10 (that's what I get for answering posts after a 14 hour day :)

Yeah, it's only unbalanced. He talked about making a balanced version, because a lot of people were asking for it, but it never materialized. Not sure why, but perhaps he ran the numbers an it wasn't economically sound buiness. Or maybe he just hasn't gotten around to it. Who knows?

Mark Simpson

I would add that I have found the CAD Equiteks to be excellent values. I have the E200 and am very happy with it (fantastic bang for buck ratio). The E300 and E350 are very popular now (the E200 was their predecessor).

But for voice overs, there is a mic on my wish list ("it will be mine, oh yes, it will be mine") that sounds just dreamy for vocals and acoustic guitar (and is somewhat affordable). The Neumann TLM193 (about $1200). I suggest you take a listen to it. Maybe it's a personal thing, but I just 'love' what that mic does with/to vocals. Smooth and warm (if it's possible to assign adjectives to a mics sound).

Didn't Alesis by Rode? If I'm not mistaken (could easily be though), the alesis mics are really rodes.

Mark SImpson

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