"best" Headphones For Mixing/recording? |
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Nov 20 2013, 04:38 AM
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If monitors aren't an option, consider adding the Focusrite VRM Box
http://us.focusrite.com/usb-audio-interfaces/vrm-box It simulates various hi, mid and low end monitors, as well as the bleed/crosstalk your ears would normally experience listening to speakers in a room. It also simulates studio as well as home environments. New, they're only $99, but I found one used for $39 Check it out... Dave |
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Nov 20 2013, 05:26 AM
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Exactly
 I go in to why he's doing this (why most good engineers do it in fact) in this post earlier in the thread. Here is the link to the post. I even mention the NS10m (much improved tweeters over the orginal NS10) in particular Small world eh? He's even using the AURATONEs I mention in a following post. Nice setup!https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/guitar_fo...st&p=665901 QUOTE (Mertay @ Nov 19 2013, 08:35 AM)  Check out these monitors from link;
http://www.barisbuyuk.com/web/galeri.aspx?lang=1 He's a well respected mastering engineer where I live and you'll notice giant PMC's together with ns10m's and mixcubes I've been there once to meet him and chat. Not giving away any studio secrets but those ns10m's were important to him although the PMC's (almost as expensive as a small house ) were nothing like I've ever heard before!As said every speaker has its use but I must add ns10m's are very good if one knows how to use them, a friend of mine had one long ago when we were students, we mixed a song with them then checked them on Genelec 8050's at school studio and the kick was perfect This post has been edited by Todd Simpson: Nov 20 2013, 05:29 AM |
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Nov 20 2013, 01:16 PM
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The world of sound iis so twiseted But fortunately we usuallyget a few common solutions
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Nov 20 2013, 01:31 PM
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QUOTE (Hexabuzz @ Nov 20 2013, 03:38 AM) If monitors aren't an option, consider adding the Focusrite VRM Box http://us.focusrite.com/usb-audio-interfaces/vrm-box It simulates various hi, mid and low end monitors, as well as the bleed/crosstalk your ears would normally experience listening to speakers in a room. It also simulates studio as well as home environments. New, they're only $99, but I found one used for $39 Check it out... Dave There are some demo software options, before buying I suggest trying them first. To be honest I'm not a fan of that technology but maybe its just me... One thing particularly important about headphones is the longer you work with them, the higher volume you'll want to listen them to a point of permanent damage to your ears. Once in a while/when away from home is ok but not good for everyday use of replacing monitors. Its simply a nature of listening through them in time, specially when ipod's became popular I remember I could hear what others were listening in the subway 
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Nov 21 2013, 06:35 PM
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I know these are not the best, but if your one a budget akg 44 for 20 bucks
http://www.guitarcenter.com/Countdown-to-B...;source=4TP3LLA |
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Nov 22 2013, 10:09 PM
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I've got a pair of those and for $20 they are some of the best you'll find. If you are working with a tight budget these are a great choice. WELL SAID DARIUS!!!!
Todd QUOTE (jstcrsn @ Nov 21 2013, 12:35 PM) I know these are not the best, but if your one a budget akg 44 for 20 bucks http://www.guitarcenter.com/Countdown-to-B...;source=4TP3LLA |
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Nov 24 2013, 11:27 AM
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QUOTE (Mertay @ Nov 23 2013, 07:54 PM) Can't be sure without listening but I thought you have the problem of replicating a mastered sound in a mix stage. Professional productions simply sound good right after recording with only pan and level balance. I suggest aiming to a realistic sound (stage-like without the reverb) rather than a mastered cd as reference, its really not a bad idea going to concerts for tuning ears. I'd largely agree with Mertay here. Mixing is not mastering and confusing the two will make your role of mixing much more complicated. A commerical release that has been mastered is different to one that has just finished being mixed. There are lots of material on the internet that have links to mixes prior to mastering, including some that went on to be famous records. You may find it much more useful to listen to some of these and compare them to the final product to give you more of a sense of how your mixes compare. Where comparison with a commercial CD can be helpful is if you want to know what is current for a particular genre. So for instance you may listen to some material to hear how they place the main vocal in the soundstage, how some deliberately shear the top of a wave form and so on. Where you may well struggle, which is what a lot of home productions try for, is to slavishly mimic the commerical release. What works for one track in terms of EQ, compression etc is nearly always specific to that track and that track alone. Whilst there are general principles and starting points for using EQ etc there are no settings that always work for every track. Software that promotes itself as such... well no comment. A lot of very good pro mixes are mainly just good balancing of well recorded material. Knowing how to gain stage properly is really important here and is far too often missed/ignored by home studios. It's also often a case of knowing what/when not to do something that distinguishes a pro and a home production. Mixing is not a case of chuck any and all of your effects and processors on the tracks and 2 bus ust because they're there. Many home productions are poorly gainstaged, throw too much on and end up sounding distorted, brittle and thin. -------------------- Get your music professionally mastered by anl AES registered Mastering Engineer. Contact me for Audio Mastering Services and Advice and visit our website www.miromastering.com
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