Comments on: First impressions of the KRK Ergo

By: Adrian

Adrian — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:26:38 +0000

Hi John! Thank you very much for the compliments – and yes I’ve come to appreciate the importance of professional mastering as the final (but essential) step in the production process. Tell you what… if you’re interested I’d be more than happy to have you write a “guest post” on the topic; aimed, as you say, to the average home recording artist – and have no issues with you publishing your credentials and cross-links etc to benefit your services! Let me know of this is of interest and send me an email if so (the link is on the home page/side bar menu). Again, appreciate you stopping by and taking the time to comment! All the best – Adrian

By: John Anthony

John Anthony — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:04:21 +0000

I enjoyed your review AND the music. Very nice. Being a Mastering Engineer, I had assumed the tracks I was hearing on your site were professionally mastered. I really don’t think the average home recording artists realize how important professional mastering is, especially today with almost everyone recording at home in less than perfect conditions and without years of experience. Nice to see someone like you taking your very good music seriously enough to send it out for real mastering. Your finished product is very nice. Now, where can I purchase the CD?

John Anthony, Omni Mastering

By: Alex Massaad

Alex Massaad — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:16:57 +0000

Cool Review Adrian, I’m getting an Ergo this week and I’m excuted to check out how it works out in my studio space too,

cheers

By: Adrian

Adrian — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:31:21 +0000

Reuben, my memory is a bit foggy on this… I don’t recall a cable being supplied with my Ergo. I used a standard microphone cable (XLR m/f) to connect the calibration mic to the Ergo and it worked w/o a hitch.

Appreciate you stopping by and posting… perhaps someone else knows differently?

-Adrian

By: Reuben

Reuben — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:57:26 +0000

Sorry to jump in but the 1/4″ on the supplied cable has two rings. Most standard XLRs have one ring. does this not make a difference in the calibration?

Thxs
Reuben

By: Adrian

Adrian — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:02:05 +0000

Thank you, again, T-tone for the compliments. Truth be told, I can’t give all of the credit to the ERGO, however…. The other thing is, I’ve been in your shoes going thru countless CDRs doing searching for that perfect mix… It’s a time sink for sure. The biggest step change for me came when I invested into Barefoot MM27 monitors. Even though they are expensive, the amount of time I was spending (even as a hobbiest) was even more so… The other thing I do is send my mixes out for professional mastering – - – “most” of what you hear on my blog has been mastered, but not all, so clearly it starts with achieving the base mix and for this I credit the Barefoots more than anything else. I am convinced that if we hear it accurately at our mix desk, we have discerning enough ears (all of us) to get pretty close to professional results… The ERGO is very helpful, don’t get me wrong, but if I were to put it on a pie chart, I’d give a 70% slice to the MM27s, 15% to the ERGO, and the other 15% to professional mastering. By the way, LOTS of detailed info on the MM27s on gearslutz.com Hope this helps!

By: T-tone

T-tone — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:39:57 +0000

As I commented earlier I have some room treatment put have some trouble area’s in the bass frequencies. Just I eat up a lot of CDR’s getting that “just perfect mix” not to mention how many times I have to remix with several different media players. Just wondered if the ERGO might help out. Also do you use it for your final mastering mix down? Your mixes are definitely well polished and sound very professional. I have decent gear esp. the mic’s and mic pre’s is where I invest a lot in. No problems with the tracking end. Only mix down problems. Figured ERGO might help out. From what I hear from your mixes sounds like it doing a great job.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:40:44 +0000

Hello – yes the microphone input is indeed 1/4″… sorry my bad from before… it’s been a while since I’ve calibrated my room… That said, I wouldn’t place the Ergo in a category of a silver bullet. It made very subtle changes for my mixes, and I’d like to think it’s because my room was fairly dialed in before. But, for the money, it’s as easy of an acid test as I can envision… most people, from what I gather, are generally pleased with the results (with the Ergo). Thank you for the compliments as well!

By: T-tone

T-tone — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:58:40 +0000

I was looking at the ERGO box and didn’t see XLR jack all I seen was a 1/4 input for the mic input?
BTW nice mix sounded well balanced!
That what got me interested in ERGO my mixes are to bass heavey even with sound panels hanging every wheres. I can’t get my mixes balanced, It’s either to much mid/highs or to much lows. Thanks for your time

By: Adrian

Adrian — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:45:38 +0000

Hello, not sure what you’re asking exactly (re adapter for the ERGO) because you simply use a standard microphone cable (XLR m/f) and plug directly into the ERGO unit to perform calibrations. No outside adapter required.

By: T-tone

T-tone — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:16:54 +0000

What kind of adaptor did you have to use for the supplied mic in ERGO?