ABSTRACT
Ideally, the main control room monitoring system in any studio should be of high resolution, full audio bandwidth, low distortion, and should be able to provide sufficient sound pressure level at the mixing position for all forms of music recording likely to be undertaken in the studio. As discussed in the previous chapter, there are people, some of them with great skill, flair and experience, who choose to work principally on their favourite mid or small sized monitor loudspeakers, but that does not negate the need for a high quality system. If they choose not to use the large monitors, then it is their prerogative to do so. Nevertheless, it should be incumbent on all professional studios to have available a full range monitor system for persons who wish either to work on them as standard practice, or to use them to check for things which are outside of the range of performance of the small monitors.
