Subwoofer for krk rp6-£150 budget
hi, i want to buy a subwoofer to accompany my krk 6’s and i cant afford to buy the krk 10 that most people opt for.
is there a cheaper alternative?
i strongly suggest that you get the matching sub because there calibrated to fit together. Also a sub that cost 200$ will have no damping and its will just be a cheap vibrating box. Its must completement your sound and you should not be able to hear the sound direction of your sub is coming from when its well calibrated.
I thought you were selling your speakers?
yeah i sold the m audio’s and bought krk’s. i want a sub to go with the krk’s 
You could try the iKey subwoofer
Ellaskins has used them in his videos, they dont sound too bad in the video so it should sound far better in person
thanks for the suggestion
its a tiny bit too much though.
any other ideas that are slightly cheaper?
cheers
If I wasn’t stuck in BFE where shipping & material costs would kill me, I would go this route.
http://billfitzmaurice.com/autotuba.html
If you’re not going to spend $300 on the right sub, you might as well spend $70-100 on any home audio sub and accept that you’re going to throw it away when you have the $300 to spend.
£300* theres a biiig difference
the fact of the matter is…i dont have 300 quid to spend.
im not going to be using it alll the time with the monitors, just when i fancy a bit more bass.
so can anybody tell me a decent sub for around 150 POUNDS?
cheers
something around 190$ to name it.
Why do you need a subwoofer? The KRK’s should output enough bass on their own. And buying a cheap sub is just not going to solve your audio problems.
Hell, I have a pair of KRK 8’s and they shake my entire apartment when I run a strong enough bass sound.
This. But if you really want a subwoofer, i’d suggest going to a BestBuy or anything you have on that side of the ocean that’s like a BestBuy that has home theater systems. From there i’d look at all of the home theater systems and computer speaker systems till I found a subwoofer I liked in those and i’d pick that up.
Also, just buying a subwoofer isn’t going to help. If you don’t calibrate it to your room, fit it in properly, it’s going to ruin any chance for a solid mix you could ever have. Monitor subwoofers are used for TOTALLY different things than standard subwoofers, and even when consumer audio subwoofers are used improperly it completely ruins the sound.
And professional subwoofers are even more sensitive and overbearing.
Dvls- got any recommended literature on this subject? I’m interested.
I learned most of what I know from the Tweakheadz site on their forums. Their forums are riddled with professional mixing and mastering engineers with serious studios. They uniformly agree bedroom musicians don’t need subs, and it makes sense when you think about it.
(ps I did a search with some interesting threads on their forums here. There’s a lot of interesting stuff there. Obviously it’s not a professional source, but, well, I trust it.)
Regardless, if you don’t calibrate a room properly, different frequencies will be accentuated. The low end is the most guilty of this. To then accentuate it further with a subwoofer will overly muddy your mix. Too much bass is bad when producing and listening for reference.
Not enough could be equally as bad. Those KRK’s only go down to 49Hrz leaving everything out down to 30Hrz. Then (if we’re talking production) what happens when someone plays his music on a system with a decent sub? It could be muddy or clipping due to the producer not being able to hear that spectrum. No?
equally possible, but it’s still going to be a bad idea to put an unsuitable sub in.
But if he throws that system into a room that isn’t treated for it his mixes are going to be a mess. I have a feeling that system would be much more forgiving of sub-40hz frequencies than if those frequencies are too loud. Hell, if you want that problem fixed you can filter off those frequencies you wouldn’t be able to hear until you get yourself into a system that works. Isn’t that what most producers do anyway? Just roll off the low end and high end after certain points?