HS5

Monitoring is EVERYTHING when trying to get a pro sound. The first time I sat in front of my Neumann KH 120 II, moving from Yamaha HS5, I was blown away by how easy it was to find what I was looking for in my mixes. If you can’t get a polished sound, it’s usually because of masking. If you can’t fin

They do me too I have a pair of hs5 Yamahas and they suck sooo badly in comparison lmfao 🤣 The prophecy 1s are the best bookshelves we have ever made but they are all passive now we don’t really do to much active stuff anymore

Do you use a subwoofer? Depending on the content,* the HS5 needs help with low bass; I doubt you need a bass trap. A spec of “frequency range to 54Hz” implies down -10dB could border on inaudible, per Fletcher-Munson, and likely have more than a target of 3% harmonic distortion, and aggravate multi-

Because that's the philosophy carried over from the NS10's. If you can get your mix to NOT sound like s*** on them, your mix will translate well to every other speaker. In reality, NS10's were a failed bookshelf speaker, and Yamaha ended up giving them away to studios all over the world. Producers u

Tons of rookie mistakes can be said here. But I think the equipment is the core of where these bad mixes come from. If you spend a thousand hours looking at mixing tutorials but end up having to mix on some $200 cans and Yamaha hs5’s you are going to have a hard time hearing the “real” sound that is