Simple rules for studio monitor placement
Whether you mix or just make beats, no matter how much you spend getting yourself a pairpair of quality studio monitors, there are 3 major rules besides acoustics you must observe in order to get the best out of them. The following outline should guide you when setting up your monitors.
1. The Equilateral 🔺 triangle setup:
Forming an equilateral triangle with both monitors and your head is the best setup to have when positioning your studio monitors. To achieve this though, the distance between both monitors from each other has to be the same as the distance between your head and both monitors from both angles. This ensures a wide stereo image.
2. Use monitor pads:
Lower frequencies are felt more as vibrations than heard like higher ones. When you share the same surface as your monitors, you will also feel/hear more lows than what is truly present in your mix.
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Lower frequencies are felt more as vibrations than heard like higher ones. When you share the same surface as your monitors, you will also feel/hear more lows than what is truly present in your mix.
3. Never place your monitors at corners:
Lower frequencies are amplified in corners. This would be great for live sound but not for the home studio. Hearing more lows than your mix is producing will cause you to EQ less lows into your mix. Thus your final project will be too light on the low-end. This is because you were hearing something produced by the room, not your tracks. Get those studio monitors out of the corner.
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