KRK ERGO manual Focus1 / Listening Position

Focus / Listening Position

3. Setting up ERGO and your Mixing Environment

By shortening the path to the ear, the close-field monitor offers a tremendous amount of flexibility, allowing the sound to become less susceptible to differing room conditions. The ability to adjust the high characteristics is equally important to help compensate for room irregularities and achieve the highest sound accuracy.

A room that is heavily dampened would typically require a slight high frequency boost. Likewise, reducing the high frequencies can alter a reverberant room.

Placing the monitor close to a rear wall, side wall, or a corner will reinforce the low frequencies. Generally speaking, if you move them two to three feet away from walls and corners, you'll hear less low frequency interaction (excluding any interaction with the mixing console).

There. That wasn’t so bad, was it? You did good.

3.2Positioning Your Monitors

Positioning your monitors correctly in the studio is critical to their performance. Typically, they should be placed so that that the listening position is fully “covered” with all monitors resting on the same horizontal plane. To test a monitor for its imaging capability, playback a song that includes acoustic instruments, to fully represent the entire sound spectrum.

You can adjust the angle of each monitor by listening for dead spots. Keep in mind, changing the angle or position of a monitor will change the way that you perceive your music. So lets analyze a few examples;

Two-Channel Set Up

•Near-Field Configuration – In a control room situation, the monitors are often times placed on the meter bridge or in a close-field listening position. Initial placement starts by measuring out a simple equilateral triangle (all three sides equal in length) with the apex at the center of the listening position as an “overlay” for the stereo installation. In this configuration, the Left and Right monitors are each placed at a 60° angle, equidistant from the listening position. (Figure 3)

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Figure 3

• Mid-Field Configuration – This configuration is similar to the close-field configuration. It is normally used with larger monitors or when the monitors are too large or heavy for the meter bridge. This set up has the potential for a larger sweet spot and better spatial imaging. Make sure that the height of the woofer is above the height of the console. (Figure 3.1)

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Figure 3.Focus1 / Listening Position

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