We listen more than ever to music on headphones but we will always have situations where we are listening to music with reflections of some type of room, may it be in a car or a shopping mall.
So, to reference these listening environments at least from time to time on a headphone might not only be helpful but crucial.
And one interesting concept if you don´t have software at hand that simulates these rooms, might be to use something you already have.
So why not keep it simple and put a reverb at the end of your stereo bus and tweak it.
To not clip your output remember to gain down a bit the output since the reverb adds gain.
You can then tweak the reverb parameters however you like.
What has worked well for me is a pre-delay of 30 to 60 milliseconds and a 0,2 second room reverb. I recommend staying above 30 milliseconds pre-delay to be able to hear the original signal clearly and to not mix it too much with the reverb.
How do you go about simulating a room when using headphones ?
Best, Mario
Alternative room simulation on headphones without software
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- KVRer
- 8 posts since 27 Jun, 2024
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- KVRist
- 375 posts since 17 Nov, 2022
The closest I came to some sort of speakers-on-headphones was by using plugins like this: https://rekkerd.org/david-poirier-quino ... gine-beta/
It still fails to make the test signals (Interaural intensity difference, interaural time delay gap) sound equal enough though. I think it's not possible to really get a speakers-on-headphones sound.
It still fails to make the test signals (Interaural intensity difference, interaural time delay gap) sound equal enough though. I think it's not possible to really get a speakers-on-headphones sound.
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- KVRAF
- 14197 posts since 20 Nov, 2003 from Lost and Spaced
TB Isone works well. I'm using the first gen free one.
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- KVRist
- 124 posts since 31 Dec, 2021
Yes, I use TB Isone as well, which is now provided as freeware legacy software. It does a fine job, can be tweaked a lot but also comes with some great presets to get you started.
I mostly use it as a quick reference rather than have it on at all times. I've learned to trust in the sound of my headphones (and usually what to compensate) now that I can't use my monitors as much.
Being able to adjust the frequency response of the speakers also makes Isone a decent little cabinet simulator for guitars as well.
I mostly use it as a quick reference rather than have it on at all times. I've learned to trust in the sound of my headphones (and usually what to compensate) now that I can't use my monitors as much.
Being able to adjust the frequency response of the speakers also makes Isone a decent little cabinet simulator for guitars as well.
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- KVRAF
- 14197 posts since 20 Nov, 2003 from Lost and Spaced
Headphones especially. I has Sony, which was light on bass so I'd always overcompensate. Then I got some Sennheisers,b which is now bass heavy. I tried some free software from Github that was supposed to fix this and it did nothing.