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The Confidence of Accurate Studio Monitoring: Mackie HR 824s

Sunday, December 16th, 2007

This article is all about the suprisingly HUGE increase in recording quality when you finally achieve confidence in your studio monitors. I am THRILLED that when I making an audio engineering decision, I know it’s going to hold up on other systems.

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