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Post by Michael Lawrence on May 29, 2018 1:19:04 GMT
How do you guys feel about composing with headphones? If it allows you to get the work done, awesome. I would avoid making any definitive mixing decisions for obvious reasons. A perhaps less obvious concern is that most headphones don't isolate, so if you were on a bus or a train or a plane with a lot of background noise, you would tend to turn your cans up louder to get on top of the noise and destroy your hearing. For this reason a better choice might be a pair of In-Ear Monitors. You don't have to spend a lot. A pair of the new Mackie MP-240's can be had for under $200 and they're actually very good. That's what I use. Here is a review of them from Live Sound International, May 2018. ( Digital edition link)
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Post by tpl on Jun 5, 2018 20:45:38 GMT
Any headphones suggestions with flat response and good sound for accurate monitoring ? Many thanks... Hey. I'm not a headphone guy but the beyerdynamic DT990 are open back. Open back leads to a more natural sound but at the expense of isolation. The DT770 is closed and the DT880 is semi-open. I have a pair of Sennheiser HD280 closed-back which I like for recording. I wouldn't call them accurate, though. From Byerdynamic there is also the D770M which are extremely closed cans. I have those but I use them only when I need to isolate myself from the rest of the world because for me they feel pretty awful to wear and the isolation goes down the toilet if you happen to wear glasses like I do. For years I used AKG K-702 but their sound way too nice to use them for mixing or other critical stuff. I still do like them a lot. For me the best combination seems to be Yamaha HS8 as nearfields and Yamaha HPH-MT8 headphones. Yes, I'm a Yamaha fanboy... Those cans have good isolation, a flat sound and I can wear them for 10 hours without a problem. Yamaha has also HPH-MT5 but they sound so muddy that I can't recommend them to anyone. Would someone like to buy my pair? Now that I start to think about it, where did all these headphones come from? I know the truth that more gear means better music, but headphones...? Tomi
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2018 21:06:24 GMT
Hey. I'm not a headphone guy but the beyerdynamic DT990 are open back. Open back leads to a more natural sound but at the expense of isolation. The DT770 is closed and the DT880 is semi-open. I have a pair of Sennheiser HD280 closed-back which I like for recording. I wouldn't call them accurate, though. From Byerdynamic there is also the D770M which are extremely closed cans. I have those but I use them only when I need to isolate myself from the rest of the world because for me they feel pretty awful to wear and the isolation goes down the toilet if you happen to wear glasses like I do. For years I used AKG K-702 but their sound way too nice to use them for mixing or other critical stuff. I still do like them a lot. For me the best combination seems to be Yamaha HS8 as nearfields and Yamaha HPH-MT8 headphones. Yes, I'm a Yamaha fanboy... Those cans have good isolation, a flat sound and I can wear them for 10 hours without a problem. Yamaha has also HPH-MT5 but they sound so muddy that I can't recommend them to anyone. Would someone like to buy my pair? Now that I start to think about it, where did all these headphones come from? I know the truth that more gear means better music, but headphones...? Tomi Now you got me really interested about those Yamaha HPH-MT8's. TBH i havent never heard about them before.
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Post by tpl on Jun 5, 2018 23:36:26 GMT
For some reason Yamaha hasn't made a big fuzz about these cans. Go figure...
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Post by Ethan Winer on Jun 9, 2018 16:09:28 GMT
Composing is fine. As Michael said, it's mostly the mixing that's a problem. Of course you can work on a mix with headphones too, as long as you check your work on real speakers occasionally.
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