G Sonique Releases Moonitor MSX5 Headphone Monitoring System

Monitor MSX5 – Headphone monitoring system

These days, more and more hobby and professional musicians and mix-engineers are producing and mixing on headphones.

Why?

Simply because the facts are: highest quality studio headphones are much cheaper than mid-range studio monitors. there is no negative influence of room acoustics on the sound. You don’t need to invest so much money into correcting studio room acoustics and damping systems, all good headphones have almost linear frequency response starting at the deepest sub-basses, 20  hz (while only the most expensive speaker systems with sub-woofers in  ideally acoustically treated rooms can reproduce these frequencies correctly).

But it is well known fact, that it is nearly impossible to mix correctly on headphones only and focus your hearing on the sound while wearing cans.

Why?

Because of physics and the differences of listening to headphones and speaker systems. When you are listening  to music/mixes on speakers you can hear sound coming from the right speaker not only in the right ear but also in the left ear (with frequency and time distortion/delay of a few milliseconds). Similarly, sound coming from the left speaker is audible also in the right ear.

Visually it looks like this:

Listening on speakers

TOP FEATURES:

Monitors angle – this feature simulates angle of rotation of studio monitors/speakers towards your head/ears. In professional recording/mixing studios speakers are usually rotated 15 – 25 degrees.

Monitors distance – this feature simulates distance of monitors in room from your head/ears.

Center balance – by this knob you can attenuate level of phantom center to hear wider stereo signal

Main volume – control output volume of all system

Monitor/Speaker simulation:

(BASS)Woofer size – by  this knob you can simulate the size of the bass woofer of your virtual  monitoring system. Most of classic studio monitors do not have the  biggest bass woofer so you can’t hear deepest sub-basses  10 – 35 hz without additional sub-woofers. But this feature is often  desirable because deep and massive bass can soften mid and harsh  mid-treble frequencies. So if deepest sub-basses are not reproduced by smaller monitors you can hear more sharp, harsh and  clear sounds as well as many problems in your mixes.

(TREBLE) Tweeter sharpness/Sound aggression – Many models of the popular Japanese studio monitors have a very sharp and precise  treble sound. With this knob you can simulate this kind of extremely precise and sharpness sound of treble in four amounts. (min-max)

Comparison – by this knob you can freely compare between dry (pure headphone sound) and wet (monitor sound simulation)