How Important the Loudspeakers Are

First of all, I began recording my band with my PC to save money. I thought, I can make our own demo and it will be of a bearable quality. After I heard it few times, I could only hear the mistakes of the recording. These mistakes "forced" me to look after what I did wrong. After that, I was asked to record a lot of demos and my experience grew even bigger. So I didn't work in a real studio, only in rooms for rehearsals, in garages, and the best was in Slovakia in a really old farm where the band played the worst punk music I had ever heard.

At the time I used a Tannoy loudspeaker copy, made by my neighbor. It sounded really good, but it wasn't designed for a near field use, and wasn't so linear, some frequencies were simply missing. After that my friend and I decided to build a recording studio. A couple of month later it wasn't still finished, and it isn't finished yet, but there is an isolated room, with absorbers and bass traps, so we can work in it.

All of our musician friends come to us to record something, of course they have no money, but they need to record their songs. At first we were really worried as we thought that there is no place for a small studio in this country, and only friends would come to us, and we would not do a really good job. Soon after we realized that we got back our "charity" work, because we met a lot of interesting people and we did really interesting jobs. One of my favorite was recording a piano artist called Hegedûs Endre at Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, and we learned a lot from professionals.

This life experience taught me how important the speakers I'm working with are, how to choose them, how place to them, and not only studio monitors, every loudspeakers. I know that if I want to create a really good record, everything should be the best (the instruments, the amps, the players, cables, mics, microphone positioning, each element of the entire procedure). To hear all the nuances properly I chose (borrowed) a pair 8030A. Genelec was my choice, not the only choice, but it is a measurement standard in music for me now.

Equipments:

Focusrite Sapphire Pro, MacBook, PC, Audio Technica, AKG Headphones, Alto headphone splitter, amplifier Yamaha HS50M MXl, Sennheiser, Collins mics.