August 24, 2007
 Want to take your recordings to the next level? One of the most important pieces of gear you can get for your production studio is a high quality pair of speakers. Get a pair of Mackie HR824 Near-Field Studio Monitors for $1600 - $600 instant discount = $1000 at Musician's Friend. These speakers are sold individually for $500 each, so be sure to specify "2" in your shopping cart to order a complete set. The HR824 Studio Monitors are powered speakers that deliver a wide, deep, and incredibly detailed sound field. If you are used to listening to music through commercial speakers, monitors take some getting used to. Good monitors will reproduce the sound from the recording exactly as it is, with no artificial hype or boosting. The benefit for creating music or other audio is that you can really hear, and thus, really take control of your mix. These speakers have 1/4-inch and XLR inputs.
 If the $1000 price-tag on the HR824 is a bit steep, check out the M-Audio StudioPro 4 Active Monitors for $200 - $100 instant discount = $100, also at Musician's Friend. The StudioPro 4 Active Monitors are sold as a pair. These speakers make a nice companion to a laptop studio setup. At a tenth of the price of the HR824, you won't get near that same standard of clarity. However, they make a nice upgrade from the speakers that ship with most computers. These speakers have an RCA input, so you'll need the appropriate adapter if your sound source is the 1/8-inch output jack found on most computers.
Both of these items ship for free.
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