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.
