JBL LSR 4328P - New Studio Monitors

Back in November I bought a pair of JBL LSR 4328P studio monitors as a birthday present to myself. I never realized what a large difference good studio monitors can make. Admittedly I skipped a few interim steps going from nothing directly to JBL's top of the line studio monitor - but it was my birthday so just give me a break.


The monitors were packaged for shipping really well (heavy little suckers though). The set I purchased included the monitors, remote control, microphone, and all the cables needed. The setup was pretty straightforward. To get them setup put the monitors where you want them in the room. Next network the two (or however many you have) monitors together with a CAT5 cable. If you have more than two monitors you'll end up daisy chaining them together. The monitors that are at either end of the chain you have to terminate with CAT5 terminators (they come with the monitors don't worry). Set the switches on the backs of the monitors to correspond with the room location of the monitor. The last thing you need to do is plug in the power.

Performing the room mode correction is also straightforward. Just plug the RMC mic into the monitor and position it in the room at your listening location. To do the actual adjustment press and hold the RMC button. The monitors will do a frequency sweep (it's a little loud but not too ridiculously loud). Once that's done you should be good to go.

Up to this point I had been using a pair of headphones and a really old pair of consumer speakers to attempt to mix my tracks. Due to this, all my tracks sounded really weird everywhere except for in my basement. Tracks mixed on the old setup ended up being really mid-range heavy. Back in 2008 we had recorded a Halloween show - I tried to mix this recording on the old setup and the result was nearly un-listenable. There are various problems with how we recorded that show, regardless I should have been able to get it into a listenable state. Alas, I could never get it to sound right anywhere except for in my basement. With these new monitors I was finally able to get a listenable mix out of that show - as well as able to remix and fix numerous other recordings. Click this link to hear my favorite song from that Halloween show.

These monitors provide an extremely accurate image of what you have recorded with a very flat frequency response. I would recommend listening to some of your favorite CDs on these (or really any) studio monitors and you'll be shocked at everything you hear. I would definitely recommend these to anyone considering them. The only drawback is the price tag.

Here's a link to a song we've been working on that has now been remixed using these monitors: Winter Groves. I wish I still had the old mix so you could hear the difference the monitors made, but suffice it to say - this mix is far superior.

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