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When you’re serious about creating music, you need monitor speakers that will reveal all of the flaws in your tracks and mixes. Eris professional studio monitors deliver the truth, thanks to very accurate response, tight bass, and clear upper end.
Cheap computer speakers and home-stereo speakers are designed to make music sound good and hide the flaws, while most low-cost studio monitors are hyped to sound good in the store showroom. If you mix on those speakers, you won’t hear problems that can show up in your final production.
Not so with PreSonus Eris-series active studio monitors. Thanks to well-designed Kevlar® low frequency transducers, low-mass silk-dome tweeters, responsive Class AB amplification, and professional acoustic-adjustment controls, Eris delivers the goods.
As you expect from PreSonus, they use quality components, are well constructed, and deliver professional audio quality. They’re lightweight and compact and look as professional as they sound.
But what really sets them apart from comparably priced systems are pro features such as user controls that allow you to tailor the speakers’ response to your needs.
Yet Eris-series speakers are ultra-affordable, making them a terrific value. And with three models, you can easily find the Eris monitor that best suits your studio needs.
It’s easy to customize Eris’ sound for your room and type of music.
Today’s music producers deal with a wide variety of musical genres and often work in more than one location. That’s why Eris-series studio monitors offer extensive user controls not usually found in their price class.
The most basic control is the Input Gain, which determines the signal level before it reaches the power amp. This is part of gain-staging your overall system—that is, setting the levels for every part of the recording chain in order to get the optimal level of clean audio all the way through. Once you’ve gain-staged your system, you can leave this control alone.
The Acoustic Space Control
All Eris speakers provide three EQ controls in their Acoustic Tuning section: High, Mid, and Low Cutoff. These controls enable you to fine-tune the monitors and even to broadly approximate the sounds of different types of speakers so you can hear what your mix might sound like, for instance, on a car stereo or portable radio. The Low control also is useful when using the Eris with a subwoofer.
Eris’ Acoustic Tuning controls let you customize the speaker’s sound with EQ. You get high-, mid-, and low-frequency bands.
The High control is a high-frequency shelving filter that boosts or cuts all frequencies above 4.5 kHz by as much as ±6 dB. Use this control to fine-tune the reproduction of high frequencies, depending on your room's acoustic characteristics.
In general, setting the High control to 0 (no boost or cut) will produce the best results. However, if the sound is generally too bright or shrill, try turning this control down below 0; if the sound is too dull and lifeless, try turning it up above 0. (In either case, check your mixer settings to see if anything’s amiss.)
Keep in mind that settings above 0 will also emphasize any high-frequency noise in the signal. It's always better to cut than to boost, if possible, and it's best to use the least cut or boost needed to get the job done.
The Mid control is a mid-frequency peak filter that boosts or cuts frequencies centered on 1 kHz and extending about one octave above and below that frequency. Again, setting this control to 0 will generally produce the best results.
If you want to emulate a car stereo, try turning the Mid control below 0 to approximate the common "smiley face" EQ curve. To emulate a cheap portable radio, try turning it up above 0. Try not to boost much, since this can add noise to the signal.
The Low Cutoff control rolls off the low frequencies below the specified frequency (selectable, 80 or 100 Hz) at a slope of -12 dB/octave. Engage this control if you are using a subwoofer in conjunction with Eris monitors, and set it to the same frequency as the crossover to the subwoofer. If you're not using a subwoofer, set the control to Flat.
If you want to emulate a cheap radio, engage the Low Cutoff at 80 or 100 Hz while boosting the Mid control.
In addition to the Acoustic Tuning controls, Eris speakers offer a three-position Acoustic Space switch. This switch controls a second-order, low shelving filter that cuts the level of all frequencies below 800 Hz by a specified amount (-2 or -4 dB) to compensate for the boundary
