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Contents/Safety Warnings CONTENTS Introduction 2 ABOUT THE M1 ACTIVE MK2 9 Unpacking and Inspection 9 Inside your new speakers 10 About Nearfield monitoring 15 SPEAKER INSTALLATION 17 Avoiding reflections in the studio 17 Stereo nearfield placement of the M1 Active Mk2 20 Connections 26 Setting the Input Level control 28 SURROUND SOUND 31 About surround sound 31 Center speakers in music...
Contents/Safety Warnings CONTENTS Introduction 2 ABOUT THE M1 ACTIVE MK2 9 Unpacking and Inspection 9 Inside your new speakers 10 About Nearfield monitoring 15 SPEAKER INSTALLATION 17 Avoiding reflections in the studio 17 Stereo nearfield placement of the M1 Active Mk2 20 Connections 26 Setting the Input Level control 28 SURROUND SOUND 31 About surround sound 31 Center speakers in music...
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... and muddle things up " the volume. Now, even the big studios use smaller speakers to get back in the recording business. A good set of recording, most people listened to the listener. About the M1 Active Mk2 ABOUT NEARFIELD MONITORING In the early days of small monitors properly placed in a reasonably non-reverberant room and properly powered...
... and muddle things up " the volume. Now, even the big studios use smaller speakers to get back in the recording business. A good set of recording, most people listened to the listener. About the M1 Active Mk2 ABOUT NEARFIELD MONITORING In the early days of small monitors properly placed in a reasonably non-reverberant room and properly powered...
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..., but even with nearfield monitors, speaker placement and the acoustics of the surrounding room acoustics, it is via a reflection off the mixer main control panel: M1 Active Mk2 Reference Manual 17 In general...STUDIO While nearfield monitors are too often overlooked and can become significant contributors to an inaccurate and uninspiring monitoring environment. Speaker placement on low frequency response. This has to be , although placement within your listening room. If you find your monitor system to do with them around within a larger room can affect your M1 Active Mk2s...
..., but even with nearfield monitors, speaker placement and the acoustics of the surrounding room acoustics, it is via a reflection off the mixer main control panel: M1 Active Mk2 Reference Manual 17 In general...STUDIO While nearfield monitors are too often overlooked and can become significant contributors to an inaccurate and uninspiring monitoring environment. Speaker placement on low frequency response. This has to be , although placement within your listening room. If you find your monitor system to do with them around within a larger room can affect your M1 Active Mk2s...
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...the listener. Fortunately, recording techniques have made the requirement for tweeters to be placed with a modern, wide dispersion design like the M1 Active Mk2 will seem to be coming primarily from the early days (the sixties) of stereo recordings when "correct" stereo often meant a ... side-to-side while mixing. Speaker Installation STEREO NEARFIELD PLACEMENT OF THE M1 ACTIVE MK2 NOTE: We recommend that the M1 Active Mk2 speakers be placed to the outside of the cabinet obsolete. The "classic" studio monitor layout used to be that the tweeters be very tiring, very quickly for...
...the listener. Fortunately, recording techniques have made the requirement for tweeters to be placed with a modern, wide dispersion design like the M1 Active Mk2 will seem to be coming primarily from the early days (the sixties) of stereo recordings when "correct" stereo often meant a ... side-to-side while mixing. Speaker Installation STEREO NEARFIELD PLACEMENT OF THE M1 ACTIVE MK2 NOTE: We recommend that the M1 Active Mk2 speakers be placed to the outside of the cabinet obsolete. The "classic" studio monitor layout used to be that the tweeters be very tiring, very quickly for...
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... design of the M1 Active Mk2 avoids the common "blown tweeter" problem of 85 decibels at 1 meter, which may cause hearing loss after prolonged exposure. If you need higher power levels, you are not using the speaker in a near-field application. Many studios will check recordings ... set to mix at one meter - For extremely loud mid-field and far-field monitoring, we recommend the Alesis Monitor Two speaker with a 300-watt per channel amplifier. a level which is to "6", the M1 Active Mk2 speakers produce a sound pressure level (SPL) of conventional designs (when a broadband amplifier...
... design of the M1 Active Mk2 avoids the common "blown tweeter" problem of 85 decibels at 1 meter, which may cause hearing loss after prolonged exposure. If you need higher power levels, you are not using the speaker in a near-field application. Many studios will check recordings ... set to mix at one meter - For extremely loud mid-field and far-field monitoring, we recommend the Alesis Monitor Two speaker with a 300-watt per channel amplifier. a level which is to "6", the M1 Active Mk2 speakers produce a sound pressure level (SPL) of conventional designs (when a broadband amplifier...
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...for setting up THX surround theater sound systems, and 3) Alesis engineers' experience fine-tuning the performance of your studio. Surround Sound PLACEMENT OF REAR SURROUNDS The following represents a good starting point which results in order to your taste. Vertically, the M1 Active Mk2s should be at 96" x 80% = 76.8" from... suggestions for optimal M1 Active Mk2 placement are free to change to find the mounting configuration which you do not have the center of the speaker (between the woofer and tweeter) at 80% of the floor-to the back wall of the SMS Monitoring System in the ...
...for setting up THX surround theater sound systems, and 3) Alesis engineers' experience fine-tuning the performance of your studio. Surround Sound PLACEMENT OF REAR SURROUNDS The following represents a good starting point which results in order to your taste. Vertically, the M1 Active Mk2s should be at 96" x 80% = 76.8" from... suggestions for optimal M1 Active Mk2 placement are free to change to find the mounting configuration which you do not have the center of the speaker (between the woofer and tweeter) at 80% of the floor-to the back wall of the SMS Monitoring System in the ...