Headphone bleed over

[CrippledYak]

Don't know if there is a real solution for this besides getting different cans...

I am currently recording using a set of Sennheiser HD-590s and an Apex 450 Tube mic -- the Sennheisers sound great, unfortunately they are not closed, so I get a lot of bleed over (the most annoying being the faint tick track on _all_ of my tracks). Anyone have any suggestions on how I could cut down on this? Possibly a way to temporarily enclose them? I'd like to avoid having to buy another set of headphones.

Dan S. Leonard

[TexRoadkill]

apart from lowering the volume your only real solution is a plastic bag around the singers head. You could cut a whole for the mouth and seal the edges with duck tape.


or get new cans.

[CrippledYak]

yea, I already tried that one, but then I had to deal with the crinkle noise from the bag (maybe I could EQ this out? What frequency range is a bag crinkle).... maybe I could use some sorta heavy duty casting material around the singer's head?

I think I'll just hafta use my cheap-O headphones [*shutter*] for recording and use the Senns for appreciating it.

Dan S. Leonard.

[fenix]

I use in-ear systems for all my clients for ultra noise free vocal tracks.

[Yadi]

Yup...I use the cheap (sealed) Sonys for tracking....been there, done that...they hurt like hell but nothing is more annoying than that faint "tick track".....

Funny thing is, way back when I first setup my gear, on this BBS you'll see a question of mine relating to "tracks bleeding". People assumed I was not an idiot and were perplexed of this happening in a digital environment, so the possible causes ranged from "bad converters" to "cheap software". Laughable but true, it was coming from the headphones......doh.