My ears feel funny
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 218 posts since 15 Jan, 2011
I've got some $300 headphones I use often while producing (i live in an apartment). Lately, I've noticed that on certain sounds the headphones do a strange thing. It is hard to describe, but it is as if the hairs in my ear are tickled and a sound is audible like the needle on an old vinyl record. Those sounds don't seem to be especially loud, high or low pitched. I cannot really determine a factor on what makes it happen.
So, question #1 - Does anyone have any idea WTH I am taking about there?
Secondly, I worry about damaging my ears all the time. I set my output level on the phones through my MOTU Microbook II, set to -24db. I don't know if that is a good or correct setting. I also don't know if that is an accurate measurement, but no amplification occurs after my audio interface that I am aware of.
So, question #2 - How can I tell if my headphone output level is safe and what should it be?
So, question #1 - Does anyone have any idea WTH I am taking about there?
Secondly, I worry about damaging my ears all the time. I set my output level on the phones through my MOTU Microbook II, set to -24db. I don't know if that is a good or correct setting. I also don't know if that is an accurate measurement, but no amplification occurs after my audio interface that I am aware of.
So, question #2 - How can I tell if my headphone output level is safe and what should it be?
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- KVRAF
- 4007 posts since 8 Jan, 2005 from Hamilton, New Zealand
Sounds like they're distorting or vibrating on a particular frequency.
Headphone use for mixing is not recommended except for double-checking,
and how loud is too loud - if you have to ask, you probably need a normal non-music person to come in a check.
Headphone use for mixing is not recommended except for double-checking,
and how loud is too loud - if you have to ask, you probably need a normal non-music person to come in a check.
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 218 posts since 15 Jan, 2011
Hmm, I should probably return them in that case. They were too much money to risk it being defective or getting worse down the road.metamorphosis wrote:Sounds like they're distorting or vibrating on a particular frequency.
Any outsider that comes in says its fine. I mean it is pretty soft. Just wondering if there is some set standard and some set way to measure if it below that standard. I ask because I've had ringing for about 2 seconds in my ears late at night recently off and on and I have been spending oodles of time with those headphones on. It might be because of the crackling thing though, that really makes me twinge when it happens.metamorphosis wrote:how loud is too loud - if you have to ask, you probably need a normal non-music person to come in a check.
- KVRAF
- 4278 posts since 6 Nov, 2009
Even some professional recordings have really high pitched frequencies that weren't EQed out because the guy mastering couldn't hear it I think haha. I've heard it in Celine Dion, Relient K, Avicii, lots of recordings.
- KVRAF
- 8406 posts since 2 Aug, 2005 from Guitar Land, USA
For question #2- what I do is, if it's uncomfortable in the slightest, I turn it down, if necessary, I temporarily have a zero latency limiter on the master channel to increase volume.
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