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In this video, we look at the Adam Audio A7V near-field studio monitors for mixing sound for video. Spoiler alert! These are great monitors for professional mixing. More spoiler alert! The monitors are only half the deal. Your room makes a huge difference to what you hear. So, ideally, you’ll acoustically treat your room AND use a room correction system like SoundID Reference. And the A7V monitors can help you there, too — they’ll run your SoundID correction profile IN THE SPEAKERS, so you don’t have to run the SoundID Reference app on your computer. And also, if you cannot acoustically treat your room, you can at least use SoundID Reference. 👍

If you’d like to learn how to make great dialogue audio for your film and video projects, please have a look at my courses including processing dialogue audio in Adobe Audition and DaVinci Resolve/Fairlight, recording sound, how to use the Zoom F4, F6, F8, and F8n, and how to get the most from the Sound Devices MixPre series of recorders. Our latest courses cover Sound for Live Streaming with the ATEM Mini and an Intro to Izotope RX. See our school website for more info!

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Gear used or mentioned in this episode (the links below are Amazon.com, B&H Photo, Sweetwater, or other affiliate links. As an affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases):

Adam Audio A7V near-field studio monitors  
Canare XLR cable (to connect your A7Vs to your audio interface)  
Sonarworks SoundID Reference room correction system  
Sound Devices MixPre-3 II 32-bit float audio recorder  
Sennheiser MKH50 microphone  

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