The Band/Band Engineer
OPTION 1: £500 OR LESS
SOFTWARE: GarageBand £2.99
Yes, it’s GarageBand again – see earlier for the full reason why!
SPEAKERS: Presonus Eris 4.5 £150
With a band on the road, we’d probably recommend headphones for production, especially if your iPad is the centre of it all – so check the headphones box for recommendations – but, again, for this end of the budget, there are plenty of proper monitoring options. We’d suggest these from Presonus for your budding band or engineer. When we reviewed them, we said: “We hadn’t expected that much from the Eris 4.5s because they most closely resemble computer speakers and are priced accordingly.
“Given those caveats, the sound quality was absolutely remarkable. Although they have all the tone-shaping controls of their bigger brothers we felt less inclined to tweak them because the 4.5s sounded so good straight out of the box.”
Other options: Yamaha HS5, Samson Resolv SE5, IK Multimedia iLoud Micro, Fostex PM series
SOME OTHER IDEAS:
We’re going mobile on this one and assuming you as a band want to get some ideas
