Blast off!

by Leon Lindon

Well, after hear­ing my associate’s M-Audio AV30 stu­dio mon­i­tors the other night I had to go pick up a pair of my own today (not to men­tion I got an excel­lent deal on them). They aren’t exactly top-tier but for the size of the room I do my com­pos­ing in, they’re all I need.

Now I will have much bet­ter con­trol over my mixes when I am work­ing with dig­i­tal sounds. Luck­ily, Danc­ing with Dark­ness sounds great on them as-is. Get­ting new mon­i­tors is really like hear­ing your music in a totally new way, and I hope that it will improve the qual­ity of my own audio exports. Now I just have to decide what to do with my for­mer 5.1 enter­tain­ment speak­ers (though I am lean­ing toward using them as speak­ers des­ig­nated specif­i­cally for my MIDI controller).