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What is Audiobus? — Audiobus is an award-winning music app for iPhone and iPad which lets you use your other music apps together. Chain effects on your favourite synth, run the output of apps or Audio Units into an app like GarageBand or Loopy, or select a different audio interface output for each app. Route MIDI between apps — drive a synth from a MIDI sequencer, or add an arpeggiator to your MIDI keyboard — or sync with your external MIDI gear. And control your entire setup from a MIDI controller.
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Does anyone here trust and use the Pebble?
I’m looking for.portable and affordable mobile speaker setup. I’m kinda wondering if the Creative Pebble V3 would work as monitors with the iPad ? I being serious too.. does anyone have them?
https://www.wired.com/story/creative-pebble-v3-desktop-speakers-rave/
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I don’t know about these - but I am very happy with my JBL flip essential for portable monitoring which could be an option for you.
I have the Pebble 2 for my Mac Mini dev system. I'm not sure I'd qualify them as monitors, but they are a lot better than their size and price would suggest. Really impressive sound quality and they disappear on the desk.
I used to have them. Impressive? I wouldn't go that far. They are a bit thin sounding. Impressive for the price perhaps and like Bram said, they do disappear on the desk due to their diminutive size.
Impressive for the price perhaps and like Bram said, they do disappear on the desk due to their diminutive size.
Yes that’s fair. I was impressed because it exceeded my expectations for desktop speakers of that size and <€50
The v3 seems like it has more accurate bass response and Bluetooth as well. I may get as they are also usb c .
Thanks
Could you get an accurate mix on these JBL Essential Flip? I want to be able to work almost anywhere.
My cousin used to master on MacBook Pro speakers!
That may not be a good thing if latency bothers you. Bluetooth capable speakers usually introduce latency even when connected wired. There are some threads with measurements for many, though I doubt for these.
That’s subjective I would say. I can mix down on it and be quite happy listening to the production later on on a variety of devices. Others would probably be aghast at the very idea - and you would probably have a broad spectrum in between. You can pick them up on eBay quite readily and sell it on for not too much of a hit if you don’t like it. They are very popular and have a very recognisable brand name.
Yeah, JBL don't mess around. I may have to check them out..They run via Bluetooth correct? If so, how's the latency?
I tried mixing on my iPad Pro 11 speakers, but it doesn't seem to work for me.
For portable mixing it seems to me like even cheap wired earbuds are a better option than small speakers of any kind. Especially when combined with TB Morphit to help correct the sound.
Latency is always significant with Bluetooth. For mixing it could be manageable though. As mentioned earlier, even if you use wired connection, Bluetooth speakers are likely to add some latency over non Bluetooth capable ones. Even JBL's.
https://forum.audiob.us/discussion/49223/i-did-a-latency-test-again-of-portable-speakers-and-was-instantly-depressed
https://forum.audiob.us/discussion/25508/i-did-a-latency-test-of-a-lot-of-small-portable-speakers-jbl-sony-ue-phillips-etc
Yeah, I have some JBL BT headphones and the latency is not bad, but with the same spec Sony BT headphones I also own, the latency is quite bad.
I was about to comment the same thing. I use wired headphones and it’s just as portable as carrying around a speaker and less intrusive if you’re wanting to work somewhere public. I don’t have MorphIt but it’s on my list to get eventually.
I have never found yet a pair of decent headphones for good mixes. I have a Sennheiser HD25 (wired) and they are good, but still, I lose the perspective of volumes of HH or bass. Maybe Morphit would be the answer or better headphones. I know Sony makes some great headphones (MDR 7506) too.
I have Sennheiser’s but they’ve been great for me. Very neutral sounding which is what you need.
Sounds like Morphit would definitely help though. There’s a list on their website of all the cans it emulates. There are a lot, almost too many to read.
Actually, it doesn't emulate cans. It compensates for their particular EQ curves to take out the added coloring.
Yep, it's not possible to convince someone who doesn't like to mix on headphones that they're workable. I won't even try. 😉👍🏼
I'm just sayin' - little bitty battery powered speakers don't seem like they could possibly be any better. But that's just me.
Bluetooth also robs some of the quality due to compression / decompression and the lower bitrate transmission. ymmv as to whether that affects mix results.
They do run on Bluetooth - I don’t even notice any latency - but they also have a direct stereo mini Jack input for the
folks that do.
Thanks all for your input and help. I may try the Morphit.
Sorry you’re right. I should’ve done a better job of explaining rather than mentioning it quickly. I’m curious how well it works though. May grab it for myself soon. I know they don’t do Black Friday sales so at least there’s no rush lol
No need to apologize. I was only trying to prevent you getting it with the wrong idea of what it does. And IMO it works great. But I'm no expert. I suck at mixing no matter what aids I have at my disposal.
Go @Antos3345 point though - it can't compensate for the inherent differences between mixing on monitors and on headphones.
Yeah, good points there. I only would use wired headphones to get a real mix, if possible.
Im decent at mixing - so I’ve been told - but I’m not engineer so I need all the help I can get lol. Thanks!
It’s better than without if trying to mix on cans.
I don’t mind mixing on headphones, but reference tracks are essential.
Definitely. One thing I love about Trinity for mastering is how easily you can see the levels for the reference track.
I’m not after Steely Dan levels of mixing and mastering quality and since I make noise anyway it’s not as important, but still important obviously.
My problem is with mixing sometimes with headphones is the audio level perspective. I sometimes think the high hats or bass is too high or too low in the mix and then when I mix on speakers, I am getting a different levels and sound. I would be so happy to get the correct headphones, if possible. It’s always this problem for me. Probably I’m not alone.