Alesis M1 Active MkII Monitors

tone-def · Post by **tone-def** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 7:04 pm

Good thing about the Alesis is they replicate a club sound very well. they are flat sound, which is the best thing for long studio sessions because they don't fatigue your ears.

I use these and Mackie HR624's and I much prefer the Alesis.

Alesis ProLinear 820 are even better.

hydrogen · Post by **hydrogen** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 3:41 am

tone-def wrote:Good thing about the Alesis is they replicate a club sound very well. they are flat sound, which is the best thing for long studio sessions because they don't fatigue your ears.

I use these and Mackie HR624's and I much prefer the Alesis.

Alesis ProLinear 820 are even better.

how do you swap between the two? I'm looking to buy another set for comparing sound differences between speakers.

MicroMatek · Post by **MicroMatek** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 11:30 am

Zoiberg wrote:M1 Active MK2 are great monitors for their price.
Guess why they are still produced by alesis?

Some friends of mine use them and their mixes translate well to my Genelecs 8050.

Yess.....i'm using them and they're ok for their price.

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tone-def · Post by **tone-def** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 8:44 pm

hydrogen wrote:how do you swap between the two? I'm looking to buy another set for comparing sound differences between speakers.

I use the mackies when i'm in my friends room but use my alesis when making music on my own.

nathan_fr · Post by **nathan_fr** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 5:24 am

hydrogen wrote:
tone-def wrote:Good thing about the Alesis is they replicate a club sound very well. they are flat sound, which is the best thing for long studio sessions because they don't fatigue your ears.

I use these and Mackie HR624's and I much prefer the Alesis.

Alesis ProLinear 820 are even better.

how do you swap between the two? I'm looking to buy another set for comparing sound differences between speakers.

use a mixer, or plug u other pairs of monitor on others outputs of your soundcard, then you set up on the panel of your soundcard

Alphajuno · Post by **Alphajuno** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 12:01 pm

I have some Alesis back in the UK and as said they do a great job of replicating the club sound.

I wouldnt like to rely on them 100% however.

EoN · Post by **EoN** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 5:57 am

I had these Alesis monitors for around 3 years or so. In my opinion theses monitors sound ok, until you hear/work with ANY other set of monitors, or play your music out on ANY PA

Then you learn they're shithouse.

They are VERY very muddy in the low/low-mid range. They are not flat. Honestly, I cross referenced tracks I produced on these with many other studios, and got the chance to play them live on PA's in clubs etc, and eventually came to the realisation that they were just crap. I'd come back and cut back the bass - 'tighten it up' (or what i THOUGHt was tightening it up), then i'd play it out again and it'd be garbage.

I've now got Mackie HR-824's, and the difference is absolutely remarkable.

I use the Alesis for DJ/mixing now which can be cool - the bass can be good for this sort of thing, but not for producing.

I knew when I first bought them that they weren't the best, but in hindsight, knowing what I do now, I can see that IF you can afford it, probably best to try something else

I think another piece of the puzzle is that when you buy your first monitors, its quite possible your ears can't hear the difference yet, but given some time you'll start to notice, and at that time you dont want to have been 'programmed' with the Alesis sound

dzan · Post by **dzan** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 2:10 pm

Finally I've got my own Alesis monitors and I must say that I really expected much more obvious sound.. The bass is a bit too hard, too agressive as opposed to the mids..

Maybe I wouldn't notice that if I didn't hear the monitors of a friend.

I'm a bit disappointed but also happy because this are my best monitors after all..

Conclusion: In the future I will never buy monitors anymore before I haven't heared the sound of it.