The Raven
Inspired
Well I feel immature and childish for complaining about this but maybe someone could help me out. I recently bought myself a pair of Alesis M1Active 520USB powered studio monitors. Let me start by saying for listening to music these things sound pretty freaking spectacular and, as an added bonus, I got em for $180 including tax and shipping from guitar center. I've had them for quite some time now, so I'm pretty sure I'm void of Guitar Center's return policy, so i gotta ask a question to all the forum goers on here. Upon receiving these monitors i played my Axe Fx through em via Logic 9 on my Macbook Pro and stopped playing through head phones. As time has passed and I've gotten the "honeymoon phase" with these speakers, i started to notice how these speakers change the sound of my Axe, and not for the better. I plugged in headphones just now to do a test and the difference is substantial. When I have the sound come out of the speakers, it sounds similar to when a thick blanket is put over an amplifier. Playing with headphones plugged into the computer sounds fantastic to my ear and this really kinda pisses me off since the whole reason i bought these was so i could eliminate the use of headphones to avoid headaches. Can any body give some pointers that might be able to help? I'm open to recommendations for better studio monitors if you guys think those are the issue, but like i said, they sound absolutely amazing when used to listen to music. Also the headphones I'm using are Monster Beats Studio Headphones, if that helps. Apologies for this cluster f%$@ paragraph post; I'm far too tired and peeved to space things out differently:|