Studio Monitors - Leave on? Use exclusively?

feyshay · Post by **feyshay** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 5:40 pm

Use your monitors for everything and anything (as long as you do not crank them excessively). Turn them off when not using for more than a few hours.
Use them for casual listening because then you will begin to establish a good baseline reference for how good recordings sound out of those monitors.

digitalkettle · Post by **digitalkettle** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 5:43 pm

the_planet wrote:I don't like wasting energy.

There's the bottom line

...it's not climate-kneejerk, it just makes sense: use less stuff.

3dot... · Post by **3dot...** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 5:46 pm

I have turned off the mixing desk/monitors in the studio maybe 10 times
in the last 2 years...(!)
All is well...

divonic · Post by **divonic** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 9:37 pm

mike holiday wrote:
Tone Deft wrote:I'm lazy and leave mine on, but turn off the mixer they're connected to

dude you can blow your speakers like that

here is a mantra for you

mixer on speakers on
speakers off mixer off

I sorta did that once. Blew the left one. Luckily they were still under warrenty and it only cost me like $80 in shiping. I felt really stupid.
I usually follow a sequence for turning on/off my gear with the monitors being turned off first and on last. I always do that now. Course I wasn't totally shutting down my studio at the time just I was just switching up outputs from my sound card.