Hey, so I purchased 2 KRK RP8’s and I’m really satisfied, love the sound. I keep hearing from people that I need to add a sub, and yes I would like the extra “push” so to speak.
My question however is regarding overkill. I have a fairly small room and even without the sub they produce decent bass. I was thinking of just getting the KRK 10S but I’m not sure if it’ll be too much for a small bedroom or if it’ll just compliment the sound nicely.
Any experience with this set-up or advice would be appreciated, thank you!
I’d really say it’s up to you. The KRK sub should have a mute switch, so you can always turn it off when needed (ie late night practice), then turn it on when you want some extra thump. Feeling the bass line really helps me when I’m mixing personally.
sometimes adding a subwoofer will do more harm than good for you.
Explain how your room looks and where you are able to put it, then we might be able to help you
For electronic music/djing/movies i use my sub but most of the time i have it off.
Uhh my room kinda looks like this
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cdjs and mixer on the left side facing to the right and speakers in front of it,
if that makes sense lol, it’s a pretty narrow bedroom and it does adds a bit of bass on it’s own, yeah I thought of the sub adding more harm then good but it’s kind of hard to anticipate, it could make the sound ALOT better aswell so… I mostly spin techno and such btw
Me thinks with good reference monitors, going down to 35Hz, seldom any studios have need for sub-woofers. There are exceptions, for example if you are big on doing car stereo hip hop. As for club music, pretty much any good reference monitors are fine. But I would not go with any cheap 6’ KRKs exactly.
No need for the audiophiles to blast me. These are inexpensive alternatives to the KRK subs. I am sure the KRK subs look a lot cooler when you show them off to your friends.
Those are great for Home Theater use but since they do not have XLR I wouldn’t use them for Studio use, but if you wanna use unbalanced cables then they’d work
Sure balanced is prefered but if hes just gonna use them dor djing/home studio regular signal cables works fine, buy a decent cable and there will be no problems.
Alot of products which has balanced signal inputs doesnt even support the format.. so better check if your gear is compatible before you dig yourself into that hole..
Only issue with non-balanced cables in studio is the hum that might happen – me thinks studios should be as quiet as possible so you could actually hear things you want to fix in the mix. Then again this is low-end hum, hehehe.
Anyway, as I said, good reference monitors, no need for sub-woofers.
Theres no crossover or outputs on that sub posted (Parts Express) to connect your tops so you would end up with the same bass frequencies coming out of both which normally doesn’t sound nice
