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I have two rooms in my studio. The rehearsal room is typically
filled
with the vast percususion set up for Alloy Orchestra. When I'm
doing
rehearsals with other groups, or just jams, I set up in the control
room. It's big enough (barely - 12 x 20) for a few musicians as long
as they don't bring amps with them.

In fact, I do use a pair of 3 way Klipsch Professional speakers (15",
tweeter, and passive subwoofer) for my rehearsals. They do sound very
good (and I occasionally use them as a second set of monitors to
listen
to mixes - particularly when it's a mix for a live performance), and
that's what made me think that perhaps there was a pair of monitors
that would do double duty.

I can see that this is probably not a great idea.

Thanks,
Ken Winokur

There's nothing wrong with the idea of creating
an environment conducive to jamming and germinating
ideas. This often requires a minimum dosage of SPL.
I don't think you would get results with the
smallish nearfields that are the rage now.

It seems like it was standard practice years ago to
use much higher spl's for monitoring than is popular
now. Even the small radio production rooms I started
out in (early 70's) had decent size speakers.
I was told then to use as much volume as was
comfortable to reveal detail that could be masked
at lower levels. Now everyone wants to mix as low
as possible.

For what you are doing in that size room you
might just get a pair of 'full size' monitors
like the JBL's or 813's, or continue to use
the Klipsch's.

rd