My headphones might be "lying"

[Bumpy]

OK folks let me explain...

I record Acoustic guitar, sometimes xy with SD, sometimes a single LD. Here is my chain: mic > pre > Korg 1200. Then I xfer the file via USB > PC .I mix and edit with Vegas using Alesis monitors.

I use the cans to set mic placement and set EQ on the KORG. Just when I think I got it right, I capture the track. I then xfer to the PC as stated above. I track dry, listen dry while tracking. I use AKG K240s

My problem is, when I mix and edit on the PC. When I playback the track for the first time, I am sometimes amazed at the lack of EQ. Sometimes the EQ is close, but more often than not, I have to boost eq across all frequencies (some very slight) in Vegas to get to a starting mixing point.

What is happening here? I cant seem to pin down the errant variable.

Thanks
Brian

[Track Rat]

My opinion, I'd never use headphones to set up things like tone or stereo image. Headphones are a loosing proposition for these kinds of things.

[TexRoadkill]

Originally posted by Bumpy
I have to boost eq across all frequencies (some very slight) in Vegas to get to a starting mixing point.

That's pretty much the same as just turning up the volume.

I agree with TR. Never EQ with headphones. Once you have set the mic placement with phones do a test recording and listen back through the monitors to see if you really like the sound.

[The Green Hornet]

Yo Bumps:

Whoever wrote the song, "Your Cheatin Heart" must have dedicated that song to cans.

Things always, or usually, sound wonderful in cans -- good environment, kind of like a minature ear-hi-fi. But, oh, boy, when you play the same cut through monitors, you wonder, "Hey, EQ, where you be?"

So, do your additives listening via monitors and use as few additives as possible.

Green Hornet

[Gidge]

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