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Since the Samson SR850 seem to be a not too bad clone of the AKG studio headphones series and the customer feedbacks are kinda positive on these headphones, I guess you can't go too wrong with these. Although, I didn't find a real frequency response measurement of the SR850, I've still found something for the SR950 which are considered to be a bit more bass-heavy than the SR850. http://www.samsontech.com/site_media/support/manuals/SR950_OM_EN_1.2.pdf So, if you keep in mind that the SR850 might have a little less dominant bass, they might be really good - especially if they have a similar sound definition like the AKG studio headphone series. The frequency range from 10 Hz to 30000 Hz is also very good. http://www.samsontech.com/site_media/legacy_docs/SR850_OM_v1.pdf The only bigger thing that might bother you in the long term could be the headband which looks to be rather uncomfortable. But don't forget to give a little feeback of these headphones and how you like them in general. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Coming the studio monitors... If you got the bigger M-Audio BX8-D3, you 've made a pretty well choice for mixing (even more if your room is prepared for the full spectrum of frequencies with some bass traps - if not, smaller studio monitors might be a better fitting option). It's because I've tested the M-Audio BX8-D3 and many other famous studio monitor models in the store, and - according to my own listening experience - they made some of the best results (in things like balanced/flat frequency response, definition and clearness of the reproduced sound, staging/panorama reproduction) together with the Yamaha HS8 und the smaller Presonus Eris 3.5. The studio monitor models I've tested intensely around 3 hours were the following ones: - Adam T5V (far too bass-heavy and too much/too sharp trebles) - Adam T7V (similar like T5V, but a bit more relaxed and balanced sound) - Adam A3X (were standing too close together to evaluate them properly, similar like Adam T7V, but with a slightly better sound definition) - Focal Shape studio monitors (guess these were the smaller Focal Shape 40 - nothing special about them, kinda average sound in contrast to the big opinions of the customers - I also remember that I didn't like something about the sound of these monitors compared to the sound of all other studio monitors there) - Presonus Eris E4.5 (really good, clean and balanced sounding studio monitors - just the bass seems to interfere a little bit too much with the lower mids, but they have some acoustic tuning options on the backside where you can shut down the bass a little bit) ... and here are my absolute winners of this contest: ----------------------------------------------------------------- - M-Audio BX8 D3 (I guess these were the new D3 generation and not the former D2 - despite the big size with the fuller bass range they still sounded very clean, rich in detailed, pretty relaxed, very balanced and with a pretty nice separation of bass, mid and higher frequencies) - Yamaha HS8 (excellent large-sized studio monitors with a quite perfect frequency balance and a high sound definition, despite the full bass you can also perceive the mids and trebles really well) - Presonus Eris 3.5 (not only some of the best smaller studio monitors in general, they can also keep up with the other bigger studio monitors pretty easily and sound as big like these, very clean/crystal clear high definition sound - you might fall in love with the very well-presented mids and trebles, very low level of inherent noises - only perceivable if you go with your ears pretty close to the tweeters, also excellent for listening at low volumes from a closer distance below 1 m, pretty nice acoustic tuning for trebles and bass, just for the lacking sub bass I'd recommend to add a little, separately controllable subwoofer like the Japanese Fostex PM-SUBmini 2 to the system to get at least from the moderate 80 Hz bass right down into the 40 Hz sub bass frequency range, kinda nothing will beat the price of around 100 bucks for both monitor speakers, the radically awesome design, the rather small weight or very low power usage of around 50 W for both studio monitors altogether, safe choice for untreated rooms) ------------------------------------------------------- So, if you have a special producer room which is treated with enough bass traps or things with good absorber materials (like a couch, wall units, a punching bag, thick wallpaper, carpets and/or floor covering), you should keep the bigger M-Audio studio monitors. If not, try out my mentioned Presonus Eris E3.5 studio monitors + Fostex PMSUBmini 2 subwoofer combo.

I can't express how good this is sheesh y'all are amazing

..... ...... ......... ...... holy shit Yeah, this might be the best mix on the site right now

Right now I'm rocking a super budget pair of Samson SR850s, although lots of people swear that they are the best bang for the buck for mixing on a budget. I have a great set of M-audio studio monitors but I can't use them currently... Oh well. Anyway, here's a playlist of all of the tracks I've finished up for the game - they don't have to be great, they just have to be good enough to get the point across... At least that's what I keep telling myself

Yeah. I've been silent on this issue until now, but I really want the signatures back. Doesn't feel right like this. And the self-promotion threads/subsections at OCR and on the Discord (actually can't speak for Discord since I rarely use OCR discord, but I'm gonna take a gander and say: not much better :D). Maybe we should do a poll....

set up a post minimum for sigs (really don't care about the exact number), so make it an added feature for the survivors/persistant ones in case they want that, and hammer it into them that if the sig is too "OMG BUYLOOK @MYSHIT (it's a grey area discussion, right?) that they can get bans for that. uh, set it at a 1000 posts. i mean the logistics of 'policing' that would probably be not humongous in effort, and maybe fun at parts cause the whole thing is a bit ridiculous. the core problem/nuisance is understandable loud and clear. still, you can joke around with the grey grey gay areas of semi-somewhat-self-promotion. ah yeah it needs its own judges panel for exactly that. i forgot.

Staff probably knows the gist of what I have to say already, but for the sake of discussion: There is too much white blank empty space. After every post, there's a bunch of white space, including an almost empty bar with Quote and Like features. And look at the quotes themselves. Large margins. Large, white (and gray), empty margins. And short posts. The profile picture expands the post's height, leading to more white empty space between posts. Even after long posts, the space from one person's text to that of another is huge. I could 160+ pixels. Minimum height for a post is 250 pixels with that profile pic, so I can have a conversation of 4 posts on screen at any one time, at most. So that's actually an argument FOR the removal of sigs. But if sigs are removed because there's to be a focus on content, why is the content so sparse? There's clean, and there's clinical. I don't mind minimalism when done well, but Invision's super-sparse look isn't. To accentuate that, I'm using double line breaks here. To be funny, and to help make a point. So I'm not as annoyed at the removal of sigs themselves, but by related issues. While sigs can be annoying, they can be turned off (or individual sig images adblocked away). I will miss the compo and album banners though. And occasional animated little stories about a wolf and a ball. But we could do vertical equivalents under the profile pic. It's a BIG DUMB WHITE SPACE. So we might as well use it for something. Selectively. Adaptive. For long enough posts. And since that probably requires screwing a bit with Invision's styles, maybe we can get a look that's more community and less fancy art gallery.

15+ year lurker here. This comes across as unnecessarily overbroad, even destructive. If this change must absolutely happen, why not have sigs disabled by default, but still remain a customizable message board feature instead, and allow any user to re-enable it on their own end/device, if their priorities don't align with this "streamlined" notion of "modern forum experience"?