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I had a friend who did post-production psychoacoustics for many big-name acts and labels. He had incredible ears, and could call frequencies by hearing them.
by Perenti 4y ago
I had a friend who did post-production psychoacoustics for many big-name acts and labels. He had incredible ears, and could call frequencies by hearing them. His studio was a gear-nerds wet-dream, and had all sorts of high end stuff. He also had NS10s, because they "provide the baseline". It was kinda funny, all these high end monitors, and on the some wall, 6 NS10s.
- busterarm 4y agoNS10s are known to sound like crap. They have very poor low bass frequency representation and mids and highs don't sound great on them either. As mentioned elsewhere, their transient response is exceptional -- due to hvaing no ports. This makes mid frequencies in the 1k-4k range super clear and identify any mix issues you have in that range. The other reason NS10s are used is because if your track sounds good on them, the track will sound good on anything -- the worst walkman, crappiest radio, cheapest car stereo... They're for getting a good mix, not a good sound.
- Pyramus 4y agoIf there is one thing the article disproves, it's the myth that the NS10s sound "like crap".
- busterarm 4y agoI'm an AES member and have a good few dozen other audio engineers as friends and we universally agree that the NS10 sounds like shit. It's literally a feature. Its whole purpose is to put a microscope to a specific range of frequencies. Listening to music with it is not something you would ever do for fun. Anything bass-heavy or just mixed loud in general (most music since the 90s) will be incredibly fatiguing to the point of painful on them.