Studio 101 – Putting Together a Personal Studio: Monitors

This month’s column will look at studio monitoring—primarily speakers but also headphones. Monitoring, of course, is critical since every decision made in production, from recording to mixing to mastering, is based on what’s heard in your studio’s monitoring system. Even though headphones are growing in popularity as a mixing tool, the gold standard for studio monitoring—especially mixing—is still speakers, so that’s what we will mainly focus on.