Hi everyone, i’m looking for a high fidelity speaker to transcribe with. Right now, i’m playing songs out of my iphone via the Capo app which has been for the most part fine, but as i’ve been gaining experience I find i’m losing lots of the more subtle nuances when trying to pickup some guitar licks. Does anyone have any recommendations? I’m fine with spending a fair bit of cash here to get a high quality system, although I would probably cap myself around $1000 here unless the system/speaker had significant additional perks.
I use, and would recommend good quality headphones to transcribe difficult parts. I have a good, but old set of AKG over ear phones and also use in ear monitors. I don’t think you need to spend anything like your $1k budget, so plenty of cash left over for a new guitar
There’s a HUGE range of stuff that’s better than what you’re using yet still a whole lot less expensive than $1k hi-fi speakers. Shoot, my 20+ yr old Logitech computer speakers are probably still a significant upgrade.
I’d guess the best quality I’ve got would be my Anker Soundcore noise cancelling headphones followed closely by an older Bose bluetooth speaker. neither of those was terribly expensive.
He needs monitor (full range flat response) speakers if he is going this way. Those are uncoloured (flat eq) and hence used in studios as monitors for mixing. They are used as well by musicians when they want their digitally modelled sound to be reproduced accurately. You set everything (eq, tone) on your device and you want speaker just to reproduce it like that, not to change it additionaly. Good starting option for monitor speakers are Yamaha HS series (HS5/HS7/HS8).
@trrads Hi Tom, I agree with using the headphones, in a quiet room, to keep unwanted noise out. I slow the recording down, but not to the point it distorts the sound even more. I have trouble with hearing bends especially when played with a lot of guitar distortion. Use the looping, and play small sections, even a few notes, over and over until you get it. Play along once you think you’ve cracked the code, and see if it matches. In transcribing, it’s great to be perfect, but if you get it to the point people recognize the music and enjoy hearing it, you done good.
Hey everyone, thanks for all the responses. I think I’m leaning toward Boris’ recommendation as I feel the headphones will impede with my ability to hear my guitar clearly which will be either playing through my amp or just naturally if i’m transcribing with the acoustic. If I go the route of getting something like the Yamaha HS series, is there a way of directly hooking those to the iphone or my computer or do I need to get a receiver also? Anything else I’m missing here?
