YanKleber
Retired
Please don't beat me too hard. I am a newby, do it for hobby, and my equipment is a crap compared with yours. But I am this guy full of opinions and thinking!
Earlier today I found this thread asking advice for a good headphone for mixing:
https://homerecording.com/bbs/gener.../looking-some-good-headphones-mix-372430/new/
Of course I stayed there (as I always do) but ended popping off not convinced about a single word. But don't get me wrong. I will explain.
Some time ago when I started thinking that I could mix my stuff myself (hahaha, poor bastard!) I had this hope that I could do the job only with headphones but after a while I was sold here in this forum by the idea that speakers are the real thing for mixing. OK, I have a pair of monitors Edifier 1000R that aren't supposed to be used for this purpose but not being a complete shit, after some positioning adjustment and a small personal learning as how things should sound on a minimally decent mix I managed to achieve passable results. I have submited one of my mixes here in the forum and some masters said that it sounds OK and after to hear it in some different systems here in home I liked what I heard too.
Anyway, this is not the point where I want to get.
I have a pair of chinese CRAP headphones. Something called C3 Tech. Meh. It is a headphone for cheap gamers I think. It is all plastic and it already has broken in a couple spots so I had to use some glue and screws to put it back together. Currently the left cushion detached from the carcass and every time I put the phones on my head I have to adjust its position (yeah, more glue on the way...). About the sound, though, it sounds OK for me. It is not good and it is not bad. It's OK. Actually the mix I did sounds awesome on it (almost as good as in the speakers) and the tunes I am used to enjoy are pleasant for my ears on it too. The only big drawback of it is that it has a low output so if I try to crank volume up it will distort like crazy. It also doesn't have any color and the bass is poor. Actually it sounds very boring because is excessively flat but surprisingly I feel it VERY enjoyable and usable. And seriously it is a $5 buck stuff.
OK, now I am gettting to the point. I have used this headphone for personal listening, tracking, tests, checking mix results, etc. As mentioned the only thing I REALLY don't like it is because sometimes I would like to hear it LOUD but unfortunately it doesn't have enough hair in the sack for this.
So the question is: if a cheap phone can do effitiently all the bread-and-butter stuff and at the end of the day the final mix will have to be done with the speakers what is the point of buy an expensive headphone?
I keep trying to convince myself to spend some cash on a Senheiser, Sony, AKG, or whatever but at the very last moment I always give up because this questioning.
Earlier today I found this thread asking advice for a good headphone for mixing:
https://homerecording.com/bbs/gener.../looking-some-good-headphones-mix-372430/new/
Of course I stayed there (as I always do) but ended popping off not convinced about a single word. But don't get me wrong. I will explain.
Some time ago when I started thinking that I could mix my stuff myself (hahaha, poor bastard!) I had this hope that I could do the job only with headphones but after a while I was sold here in this forum by the idea that speakers are the real thing for mixing. OK, I have a pair of monitors Edifier 1000R that aren't supposed to be used for this purpose but not being a complete shit, after some positioning adjustment and a small personal learning as how things should sound on a minimally decent mix I managed to achieve passable results. I have submited one of my mixes here in the forum and some masters said that it sounds OK and after to hear it in some different systems here in home I liked what I heard too.
Anyway, this is not the point where I want to get.
I have a pair of chinese CRAP headphones. Something called C3 Tech. Meh. It is a headphone for cheap gamers I think. It is all plastic and it already has broken in a couple spots so I had to use some glue and screws to put it back together. Currently the left cushion detached from the carcass and every time I put the phones on my head I have to adjust its position (yeah, more glue on the way...). About the sound, though, it sounds OK for me. It is not good and it is not bad. It's OK. Actually the mix I did sounds awesome on it (almost as good as in the speakers) and the tunes I am used to enjoy are pleasant for my ears on it too. The only big drawback of it is that it has a low output so if I try to crank volume up it will distort like crazy. It also doesn't have any color and the bass is poor. Actually it sounds very boring because is excessively flat but surprisingly I feel it VERY enjoyable and usable. And seriously it is a $5 buck stuff.
OK, now I am gettting to the point. I have used this headphone for personal listening, tracking, tests, checking mix results, etc. As mentioned the only thing I REALLY don't like it is because sometimes I would like to hear it LOUD but unfortunately it doesn't have enough hair in the sack for this.
So the question is: if a cheap phone can do effitiently all the bread-and-butter stuff and at the end of the day the final mix will have to be done with the speakers what is the point of buy an expensive headphone?
I keep trying to convince myself to spend some cash on a Senheiser, Sony, AKG, or whatever but at the very last moment I always give up because this questioning.