Hear the Difference With Studio Monitors - Live With It

So one of the things that as you do deal with as a creator is you deal with a lot of audio, right? You have a monitor for video.

So when you do, say, a Premiere edit, Final Cut Pro or DaVinci Resolve or whatever...

You know what you're looking at.

And you oftentimes want to get a monitor that can give you the best reproduction.

So when you're editing a video of, say, your vacation to Rio and you're making a travel log, you want to make sure that the colors and stuff are kind of true to what you saw and not like slightly different.

It should be blue, but slightly blue-green on the monitor, so it gives you a distorted view.

Well, you want the same thing with audio as well.

And anyone who's watching this will realize that Sarah and I are both wearing headphones.

In this case, we're both wearing the MDR-7506 from Sony.

I have the consumer version, which is the same product.

They gave it a different sticker.

They called it the V6.

But I am here to talk about today what they call studio monitors.

And despite the name, a monitor, they are actually just speakers.

Oftentimes, when you go into either an edit bay or maybe a recording studio, you'll see a very similar device to this.

It's just basically a speaker without a dust or grill cover.

And it just sort of looks like a naked speaker.

And if you swing it around to the rear...

Let

me do this.

It's kind of

heavy.

You'll see a variety of inputs.

In this case, you'll have XLR, TRS, and then two dials, one with a volume and then one with a little frequency.

In this case, it's high-frequency level cutoff.

So one of the things that as you do deal with as a creator is you deal with a lot of audio, right? You have a monitor for video.

So when you do, say, a Premiere edit, Final Cut Pro or DaVinci Resolve or whatever...

You know what you're looking at.

And you oftentimes want to get a monitor that can give you the best reproduction.

So when you're editing a video of, say, your vacation to Rio and you're making a travel log, you want to make sure that the colors and stuff are kind of true to what you saw and not like slightly different.

It should be blue, but slightly blue-green on the monitor, so it gives you a distorted view.

Well, you want the same thing with audio as well.

And anyone who's watching this will realize that Sarah and I are both wearing headphones.

In this case, we're both wearing the MDR-7506 from Sony.

I have the consumer version, which is the same product.

They gave it a different sticker.

They called it the V6.

But I am here to talk about today what they call studio monitors.

And despite the name, a monitor, they are actually just speakers.

Oftentimes, when you go into either an edit bay or maybe a recording studio, you'll see a very similar device to this.

It's just basically a speaker without a dust or grill cover.

And it just sort of looks like a naked speaker.

And if you swing it around to the rear...

Let

me do this.

It's kind of

heavy.

You'll see a variety of inputs.

In this case, you'll have XLR, TRS, and then two dials, one with a volume and then one with a little frequency.

In this case, it's high-frequency level cutoff.