10 TIPS for better monitoring… (while keeping your hearing and sanity)

1 Get good monitors

We’ll start with the obvious: get a pair of fantastic studio monitors, as good as you can afford. Use our monitor Buyer’s Guide at to choose, but essentially, what you’re looking our for is a flat frequency response, since that means accuracy. If what you are hearing is accurate, then what you mix will accurately translate to your listener’s systems. If your monitors are lying to you – giving you too much bass, for example – you’ll pull back on the bass when mixing with them and that will mean your mixes will sound weedy on other