Many professional recording studios use large monitor speakers that
have deep bass. However, they are expensive, heavy, and diffi cult to
install, and they are affected by the acoustics of the control room.
All studios, large or small, need a pair of Nearfi eld monitor speakers
(Figure 5.1 ). A Nearfi eld monitor is a small, wide-range speaker typically using a cone woofer and dome-shaped tweeter. You place a pair
of them about 3 or 4 feet apart, on stands just behind the console,
about 3 or 4 feet from you. Nearfi elds are far more popular than
large wall-mounted speakers.