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#1937072 - 05/05/08 02:46 AM what to place monitors on..
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hi. I searched the forum but couldnt seem to find an article or a thread which discusses what to place the studio monitors on. Or in other words, what to place beneath the monitors.

....anybody?
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#1937175 - 05/05/08 08:04 AM Re: what to place monitors on.. [Re: icemanaman]
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What are they on now? How are they set up? Can you post a photo? Etc. \:D
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#1937218 - 05/05/08 09:15 AM Re: what to place monitors on.. [Re: Ethan Winer]
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Right now they're standing on a couple of hollow cardboard boxes i got from work. They bring the monitors to perfect height.

If these are ok, I was planning on stuffing them with rockwool leftovers that i got after building the basstraps, and then finaly cover them with some fabric just for cosmetic reasons!











I'm building two more traps right now to place the ones furthest back ;\)

I'm also wondering if I may be sitting to close to the monitors?
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#1937858 - 05/06/08 08:02 AM Re: what to place monitors on.. [Re: icemanaman]
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Cardboard boxes are great for putting speakers on because they're very effective decouplers. Really. This is what I have in my living room. Think I'm kidding? In the photo below you can just see a white cardboard shipping box under my Mackie 624 in the foreground.

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#1937913 - 05/06/08 09:08 AM Re: what to place monitors on.. [Re: Ethan Winer]
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nice!
Are your boxes filled with fiberglass?
I imagine it's clever to fill the cavities in the boxes, becuase hollow rooms like that tend to accumulate bass?
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#1938558 - 05/07/08 09:28 AM Re: what to place monitors on.. [Re: icemanaman]
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I didn't bother to fill the boxes, and they decouple fine even when empty. If they were made of rigid material like wood it might help to stuff them. But cardboard is a "lossy" material, and I haven't noticed any resonances etc.

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#1938653 - 05/07/08 11:55 AM Re: what to place monitors on.. [Re: Ethan Winer]
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thank you Ethan \:\)
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