Perspective and reverb levels, especially, will be completely skewed compared to mixing on speakers. Been there, done that...
By all means, check your mixes with 'phones for iPod compatibility, but do your basic mixing on reasonable monitors.
/Joey
Headphones for mixing recommendations?
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- KVRAF
- 3335 posts since 18 May, 2003 from Sweden
Headphones are for monitoring while recording, not for mixing.
Perspective and reverb levels, especially, will be completely skewed compared to mixing on speakers. Been there, done that...
By all means, check your mixes with 'phones for iPod compatibility, but do your basic mixing on reasonable monitors.
/Joey
Perspective and reverb levels, especially, will be completely skewed compared to mixing on speakers. Been there, done that...
By all means, check your mixes with 'phones for iPod compatibility, but do your basic mixing on reasonable monitors.
/Joey
If it were easy, anybody could do it!
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- KVRAF
- 19156 posts since 13 Feb, 2003 from Vancouver, Canada
Does someone always have to say this?Spitfire31 wrote:Headphones are for monitoring while recording, not for mixing.
Perspective and reverb levels, especially, will be completely skewed compared to mixing on speakers. Been there, done that...
By all means, check your mixes with 'phones for iPod compatibility, but do your basic mixing on reasonable monitors.
/Joey
There's nothing wrong with doing some mixing on headphones, and when I'm at work and when my wife's asleep, I have no choice but to do a lot of mixing on headphones. You can get quite good at it, when you know what to expect and look for, and of course, always check and adjust your mixes on monitors.
And rememeber: you can catch details you might otherwise miss on monitors.
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- KVRer
- Topic Starter
- 7 posts since 6 Nov, 2004
No, headphones are fine for what I'm looking to do (pretty basic stuff, I'm very new to mixing). Using headphones to do serious pro-level mixing is an obvious "no no," but I'm not doing anything of that sort so I'm not going to shell out loads of cash which I don't have to get decent moniters. I go to a school that has pretty good studios, so I can always readjust things there if needed.Spitfire31 wrote:Headphones are for monitoring while recording, not for mixing.
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- KVRAF
- 4707 posts since 16 Mar, 2004 from Columbia, MD
Beyerdynamic DT880s are what I use, 2003 model. They're semi-open and do a poor job of shutting out external noise, but this isn't an issue for me. I hear a ton of detail in all ranges and used them to mix about 80% of my new album, which I think sounds pretty good.
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- KVRAF
- 1530 posts since 20 Feb, 2003
+1 for the AKG 240 Studio. I've done some mix work using them and the tracks got an approving grunt from the mastering engineer.
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- KVRAF
- 19156 posts since 13 Feb, 2003 from Vancouver, Canada
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- KVRian
- 565 posts since 16 Dec, 2002 from Pittsburgh, PA
http://refinedaudiometrics.com/products-hdphx.shtml
i don;t know if this helps, but this VST is for helping monitoring with headphones.
i don;t know if this helps, but this VST is for helping monitoring with headphones.