Adam A7x monitor v.s. JBL LSR 4328P

There are so many studio monitors out there to choose from when it comes to the mixing stage. How do you know which one is right for you and the genre of music you’re working with? Well I have two different monitors I like a lot from a personal opinion. The first pair is the Adam A7X Monitors. To me personally these monitors are not very bright but they are very clear for the highs and Mids. I would say these would be great for music geared toward rock and other genres that aren’t big on hearing a lot of the low end. A great spec on this particular brand of monitors is that it uses the ribbon technology. The ribbon tweeter uses a thin diaphragm that supports a planar coil. They are known for reproducing high frequencies. One of the many great specs that make this a great monitor is that it has the X-ART tweeter and advanced version of the ribbon tweeter. The X is just basically representing eXtended frequency response from flat all the way up to 50kHz. In the back of the monitor there is a ¼ unbalanced TRS jack connectors, there is also a balanced female XLR with a high gain (± 4dB). Finally each driver has its own specific amplifier. The 50W A/B amp is responsible for the X-ART tweeter. To this date these speakers have a total of four awards. Next monitor is the JBL LSR 4328P Studio Monitor. Theses monitors are great for RnB, Hip-Hop, Rap, and Dub Step. They are really for any genre that uses a lot of bass or low end in the songs. One of the great features about this particular monitor is that it can calibrate itself to whatever room your in that way it will sound good. There wont be any dead spaces due to all the low end getting trapped in the corners of your room. You would have nice sounding reflections. They are self powered so you don’t need an external amplifier. It has 150 watts of power for the woofer and 70 watts for the high Frequency transducer. The front panel meters show the output levels of the dBFS(decibels Full Scale) when measured at the mix position. Not only does it include a calibration microphone and mic clip but it also has a infrared wireless remote control and a LSR4300 Control Center Software. It has magnetically shielded transducers that minimize interference when used in close proximity to video monitors. Another great feature is the RMC (Room Control Correction) that provides electronic control of room modes.  They have silk dome transducer with Elliptical Oblate Spheroidal Waveguide for precise pattern control. In conclusion I would personally lean toward the JBL monitors because the music I mix uses the bass a lot. Overall these are my top two monitors that I feel sound good there are many other name brands to choose from suck as Mackie, Tannoy, KRK Rokit, Focal, and Yamaha active or passive monitors.

Thank you,

Asia Jones

Is the Music Business getting on it's feet again

Lately the Music industry has been suffering in sales due to peer-to-peer file sharing (illegal downloading), leaking albums, and many other factors. With technology steadily increasing and people finding more ways to leak music or get music for free the music industries sales were dropping drastically. According to money.cnn.com in 1999 the sales at the end of the year were around $14.6 billion now fast forward to 2009 they dropped to $6.3 billion. It also has been reported from the RIAA that from 2004 through 2009 roughly 30 billions songs were illegally downloaded, and only 37 percent of music was paid for. Now even though sales are not doing as well as the did years ago there was a little sign of hope. Since 2004 the overall music sales increased Nielsen SoundScan annual report stated that album sales ended up 1.4% to 330.57 million units from 326.15 million in 2010. Personally I think that the music industry needs to do away with the form of Cd's. Now everyone has gone digital. Most of the time people only like a few songs off the CD and only want to buy that certain song. Now the digital sales of single songs are going up even more by 8.5% to a record 1.27 billion, which is up from 1.17 billion last year. Even though it would be hard the music industry needs to find a way to crack down on how the artist albums are getting leaked. There was a big change on  YouTube last year with copyright infringement. Now if you try to upload a song that you don’t have the rights to it gets taken off to avoid copyright infringement. I feel that there are still true die hard fans out there that will support and buy their favorite artists music. With all the new talent coming into the industry and that little jump of improvement I will be excited to see what the sales be at the start of next year.