Budget Sound Isolating Headphones for Vocal Recording?

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Hi all! n00b here! I'm building my home studio, piece by piece. I got myself a nice MXL V63M condenser mic. What I need to setup now is recording vocals. I have bought two pairs of budget headphones until now (Sennheiser HD201 and Philips SHP1900 of about 30$) and both are bleeding while recording vocals. This is primarly because I wasn't well informed when I bought them. Whenever I try to search trough google or on a forum for good headphones for vocal recording I get no results except suggestions for monitoring headphones, but no one really mentions whether they are well isolated for singing.

So I need heaphones which provide REALLY good isolation, and with decent sound for the lowest buck possible. Please bear with me as I'm doing this only for hobby and I live in a third-world country where "budget" is expensive :o

I hear the Sennheiser HD 280 Pro provide good isolation but are a little over my budget?
Sony MDR-7506 but there are a lot of fakes while getting them online
ATH-M40fs are really cheap hope they are isolating good?
And how about the MoreMe, can't find them nowhere on the bay?
AKG K-44MKII are REALLY cheap but do they provide good isolation any better than the ones I already own?

Any other suggestions?
 
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spiritfly said:
And how about the MoreMe, can't find them nowhere on the bay?
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Mainly because very few people that own them want to sell them. They're kinda like pet cockroaches; ugly little beasts, but very hard to kill. Decent sound, no - the Sennheiser HD201's sound better. But for tracking, the MoreMe's are good enough, and they don't bleed into the microphone.
 
Ok you already convinced me for the MoreMe's but the thing is that the international shipping through USPS on the official website is 25$ (costs more than the headphones itself) and is too much for me. The final price reaches 45$ (55$ for the DELUXE) and I can buy the AKG K-44MKII here for that same price.

Other sellers(from ebay for example) are shipping to me headphones for much less like 10-15$ trough USPS. Can anyone here maybe ship them to me without a box? :o
 
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That sounds awfully high. What country do you live in?
 
I had a friend in USA who is coming back on 25th Dec. I asked them if the shipment will arrive by then and they confirmed. So I ordered the headphones on her address and paid with my paypal. Two days later the order got cancelled and Front End Audio refunded me with the explanation:

Per our website we only ship to you verifiable billing address. You order has been refunded and cancelled. If you wish to replace the order via Paypal then please be advised that we will only ship to the address listed on your Paypal account.
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Now there is no more time to order the headphones through another online store. That's it I'm getting AKG's from my local store.

Thanks a lot Front End Audio!
 
Since the cheapest international shipping for a pair of More Me Deluxe is 28$ + 30$ for a More Me Deluxe the final price reaches 58$. I know it is not much for a pair of tracking headphones either, but to pay the same amount for shipping when other sellers are shipping headphones(different brands) internationally for much less somehow doesn't fit.

Well I've actually found even a better quality headphones with less shipping to my country. A guy on the bay is selling new Vic Firth SIH1 for 48$ and shipping them internationally for 13$. Since I'm paying the sum of about 60$ anyways, it is more logical to invest more in the headphones quality itself than in the shipping price.

SO FOR ALL OF YOU INTERNATIONAL BUYERS OUT THERE LOOKING FOR A GOOD BUDGET TRACKING HEADPHONE, THE BEST VALUE FOR MONEY WOULD BE THE VIC FIRTH SIH1 FROM EBAY. JUST MAKE A SEARCH AND FIND THE LOWEST PRICE. THE NAME OF THE SELLER IS 247drumstore.
 
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Shipping cost for MoreMe Deluxe Headphones via First Class Airmail to Macedonia would be $11.55. Total would be just under $40.
 
Not to steer you away from the MoreMe, but if that turns out for whatever reason not to be an option, I had the ATH-M40fs (someone stole them) and I really liked them. They had pretty good isolation, too, though I can't vouch for bleed on a sensitive condensor. I'm sure you and Harvey can figure something out on the MoreMes, though. They're on my list of things to get.
 
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Not to steer you away from the MoreMe, but if that turns out for whatever reason not to be an option, I had the ATH-M40fs (someone stole them) and I really liked them. They had pretty good isolation, too, though I can't vouch for bleed on a sensitive condensor. I'm sure you and Harvey can figure something out on the MoreMes, though. They're on my list of things to get.
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Well according to the reviews and replies from Harvey himself I concluded that the MoreMe (especially the Deluxe version) have good isolation even for good vocal tracking, hence the reason I bought them without asking. If I happen to buy a third pair of leaking headphones I'm gonna shoot myself! ..and Harvey! :PP
 
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Well according to the reviews and replies from Harvey himself I concluded that the MoreMe (especially the Deluxe version) have good isolation even for good vocal tracking, hence the reason I bought them without asking. If I happen to buy a third pair of leaking headphones I'm gonna shoot myself! ..and Harvey! :PP
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If you read the line above the MoreMe "General Specifications" box, it says,

"If you wanna try them for a while, the standard MoreMe's will cost ya $22 ($32 for the "Studio Deluxe" models) plus $6.50 shipping. If you don't like them, send them back within a month or so, and I'll refund your money."

How's that for simple?
 
Simple enough that everyone should have at least 4 pair of them. ;)
 
It was a joke Harvey! I'm sure they will be even above my standards. :)

I was convinced about getting MoreMe's even before starting this thread, the only reason why I didn't right away was the high international shipping cost, but now that you decided to help me personally about that, for which I'm very grateful, it's a real bargain!

That is how support should be done!
 
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