THE YAMAHA NS10M: TWENTY YEARS A REFERENCE MONITOR. WHY?
PR NEWELL, Keith Holland, JP NEWELL · 2024
Historically, one of the most hotly contested topics of discussion in the recording industry has been that of studio monitoring. The 75 years since the invention of the moving coil loudspeaker have not culminated in anything approaching a consensus of a universal monitor. It would appear that a general trend has been to use large, full-range monitors, with frequent reference to the smaller mixing monitors, during the recording process, and vice versa during mixing. The loudspeakers often chosen for mixing are those which lead the mixing personnel to produce, in the mixing environment, masters which travel well to their use by the record buyers. The mixing environment is rarely representative, however, of the final use environments. This situation is often dictated by the need to have a mixing console and effects rack in the middle of the room, together with sound isolation requirements which can take recording studios a further step away from domestic acoustics.