Presonus Monitor Station V2 Review [Extended Version]
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- Опубліковано 3 лип 2019
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The Presonus Monitor Station v2 is designed to take signals from the interface, DAW, or anything else you use, and send those signals to wherever you need them to go (different monitors, headphones, speakers, amps, etc).
In this review, we go over some of the major features of the Presonus Monitor Station v2 and demonstrate how it works, and how you can get your sound to where you need it to be to help you produce like a pro.
If you are an audio engineer that needs an easy way to manage your sounds, the Presonus Monitor Station v2 is a great option to consider. Check out the reasons why we depend on this desktop studio control center and watch our Presonus Monitor Station v2 tutorial review demo video.
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The Presonus Monitor Station v2 has four independent headphone outs at the top of the unit. Ours are connected to the snake that leads to the tracking room.
You can assign the cue source from one of two TRS stereo inputs on the back, or you can use an AUX input for stereo RCA so you can plug in your cell phone, MP3 player, or anything that has a 3.5mm jack.
Send any or all of those inputs to your cue and select the source for each headphone using the blue buttons beneath the headphone jacks. A master volume knob to the right controls the levels for the cues.
The main controls are on the bottom half of the unit.
An AUX input control is on the left. Beneath that is button to select AUX or SPDIF (which the Presonus Monitor Station v2 also supports) Across the bottom is a mono control which is useful for checking left/right phase correlation, a mute button, dim switch, and knob.
Also, You do not have to set up a seperate com system! The Presonus Monitor Station v2 takes care of that with a built in talk-back mic that sends com out to whatever is plugged into it! The input/output controls are in the middle.
Select your input from the three options on the left and select your output from the three options on the right. A volume master rounds out the functions on the Presonus Monitor Station v2. .
The Presonus Monitor Station v2 is a simple to use, straight forward device. It’s easy to hook everything up just once and create a routing solution that best fits your space and needs, all on a budget price.
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I have a small home studio with two computers running DAWs and two audio interfaces. I also have two sets of monitoring speakers and then a line to my stereo in the living room. Your review helped assure me this is exactly what I need to streamline my audio setup! I love that you can have multiple ins and outs simultaneously!
Good review, just wanted to add a useful design tool for your speaker outputs, if you hold down speaker C during start up, that'll allow you to flip between A/B and choose to either turn C off or turn C on independantly for sub control.
cool vidoe. love the monitor station v2. definitely easy to setutup and use.
i really needed to know if i can select multiple sources at once, i just needed to see all three inputs selected ;-;
I have this monitor Station v2 and it is really a great piece of gear for homestudio! Nice review! 😄👍
Thanks! 👍
Hey Con, your speakers are on their side.
Hi great video! My kind of review...informative but straight to the point!! Just wanted to know did you calibrate this when setting it up or did you just plug and play? Is that necessary to do as some videos show this-obviously based on me asking I’d rather not unless it is essential😄. Did you change default meter setting on set up also from +10 (default)to either +4 or +18?
Thank u 👌🏽✌🏽🙏🏼
The only thing im not sure about is how i get unique mixes to each headphone. I want to be able to control every element of what i send to each headphone mix. With the headphones coming of this unit the mix will be the same for everyone right?
how do you calibrate monitor LED meter
Hi. Can I check why cant I select 2 different sources at the same time? Thks
I use a Focusrite Scarlett 2i4, and make use of the zero-latency input monitoring while recording voiceover. I currently have my studio monitors connected to the Scarlett, but I just got a second set of studio monitors I'd like to use, so it seems like I would need something like the PreSonus Monitor Station.
Can you explain something for me? I'm honestly sketching it out on paper, and I can't seem to figure out this out. So using the Scarlet and the PreSonus together, how would I route everything to make sure the voice actor can hear ALL of the following:
1. Themselves with zero-latency input monitoring
2. The audio from the computer for playback/references/etc.
3. The talkback from the PreSonus?
Thanks for the video, very helpful!
Great question! If you just go out of the Scarlett into the Monitor Station, use the Direct Monitoring feature, disable input monitoring in your recording software, and assign the TB mic to the correct headphone output on the Monitor Station, that should all work exactly how you're imagining it. Hope that helps!
Hey can any one help me out mine can’t select 2 speakers at the same time I don’t know how to fix that
Just one disagree thing...It colorize the sound...Its amplified...It needs a power suply....Its not passive...So Even if some passives also may cororize the sound i can guarantee you that even if its subtle this colorize the sound...Cheers and nice videos...:
Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed! But just because something has power, doesn't mean it's colored. Lots and lots of hi-fi and studio equipment is designed to be completely transparent. Take Grace preamps, for example - those are amplifiers but Mike painstakingly designed them to be completely pure and true to the source. Monitor controllers typically follow a similar design theory. If it does color my signal, it's definitely in a way that I can't hear in the slightest.
@@consordini6258 yeS, THIS POINT needs to be more common, cause often I see a person talking or reviewing a piece of gear from a practical perspective and then somone else will want to come in and give their 2 cents about the technical differences. I mean, its not like the technical conversation is wrong. I mean, that seems kinda strange considering in no other conversation do people taking things out of context and make a point about it. Is that technically true? Not at all, but keep up, its the sentiment of that statment which is important cause in either case, its still rather inconsiderate to hijack a conversation to simply inject rather useless technical facts. Its like if I were talking about the sky being blue, and someone wanted to interject how the sky really isnt blue, it technically doesnt have any color, and while thats all true, The reasons to talk about a "blue" sky could have some rather important context that technical information would just hurt the direction, lets say if I'm trying to describe what a tornado looks like and how to spot/avoid one and avoid the hail core behind and the bears cage infront. Then, the contrast of the "Blue sky" becomes really f-ing important, doent it. ITs hard to describe what a mesocyclone looks like with the description of a black colorless sky that is technically what exsists. Or lets say somone wants to buy a montor controler and just wants to know if the controller would color their sound in much the same way a Bose system colors, well, then this "techinical" mumbo jumbo would stand to just fuq shit up for everyone, now wouldnt it? Sorry, I relize I said you a lot and spoke directly at you, but you are not whom I take issue with. but despite the rather obvious ambiguity of whom I'm talking about, its still doesnt call anyone out directly as I tried to stick to the problem I have with the idea, not the person. if not for replying in this chain, nobody would be implicated at all. but someone has always got to be a subject, and so I apoligize if it sounded like im implicated you as doing wrong. I am not and you didnt nothing wrong. Well, as it pertains to this subject, I'm sure you've messed up a lot of shit. But so has everyone else. Only people not making mistakes are, currently no longer with us.
just one question, I just realized that I connect my headphone amplifier to the main output of the presonus v2 station, and I get less volume in my amplifier, which If I connect my amplifier to the outputs directly from my interface, I have more volume gain, could you tell me why that happens? It seems that the presonus loses output gain, connecting my amplifier or my monitors, to the outputs of my apogee card, I have more output gain level, without touching the volumes of the card or my amplifier
Just make sure that all of the various volumes on the Monitor Station are set correctly. When you're using a monitor controller like this, gain staging becomes more involved. Instead of just the output volume on your interface, you'll have input and output volumes on the Station as well. Hope that helps!
I wonder how much more the thing would have cost if they put a better knob on it?
The thing isn’t cheap
How did you connect the headphones? With a long cable(which is?) Or did you use a headphone amp, And would a hp amp be able to use the talkback still?
It has built-in headphone amps on all the headphone outputs. For my pair in the control room, I plug straight in; for the cue mixes, they go out to the returns of my snake that leads to my tracking room.
Does the headphone amp on the V2 work as well or comparable to the Grace m900 amp?