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Sound quality, presence and levels you get from listening to your device via headphones, from your Stereo patch into your Board?
I posted this Q yesterday but I don't think it went through and I can't find it anywhere so I'm going to ask again. Over the years I've noticed when I plug Headphones directly into any Unit I have i.e. Roland TD-10 or Keyboards or Guiatr Effect with Phone Plugin, the sound you hear and the applied effects contained on that particular patch is awesome, full & rich sounding. Very different than what I hear from the Board.

Why is this? How do I get the same quality from my Mackie Board which I ALWAYS use two channels and Pan them hard L/R per instrument? I hope you understand what I'm talking about. This is easy to check out for yourself, regardless of what Rackmount Unit, Effect Board, Keyboard or Processor you have, try listening to your playing by patching Cans into it, then compare that to what you get coming from your Board. Huge difference ... What I hear coming from the Cans it is what I'd like to hear 100% of the time ...

Thanks People
 
my TD-3 sounds the same thru my headphones and thru my PA system. almost. sounds better on my PA imo.
 
Well Thanks for that .. I've had this TD-10 System since it came out and in all of this time, I've adjusted, re-adjusted and readjusted over again. I'll get very nice sound from it in one session then without making any basic changes, I get a completely different quailty from my Drums on the very next Project.
So this very evening, I decided to approach my whole Audio Setup with a different Mindset. Audio Balance is not something I know a lot about when it comes to recording. I've basically been a live Musician for most of my life so Settings for Studio Quality I'm learning is a whole different approach.

My Electric Guitars & Keyboards sound awesome thru my system. The Drums (Roland V-Session) are starting to sound very good but still not where I want them to be quite yet. So my only other biggest challenge is getting a nice defining Bass Recording (Acoustic 5-String Fretless) and my Acoustic Guitars.

I'm going Mono through a Pre-Amp with the Bass and it's starting to sound (Not Bad) but certainly not great just yet. As for the Acoustic Guitars, one I can plug in but the other which is a very expensive Instrument, has no electronics so I have to record with Mics. I have two High-End Condensor Mics mounted in Shock Mounts but the area I use for playing & recording those guitars is currently open. I still haven't built a sound-proof Enclosure to record in. I'm wondering if I'm wasting my time until I do this?

Will I never get a great recording with my acoustic Guitars until a build a room?
 
Headphones often tend to sweeten the sound quality of what you are listening to. It's what most of them are designed to do. Obviously you don't want that if you are mixing, you want accuracy.

There are a tonne of different factors that make headphones somewhat unreliable. I'm not going to go into too much detail as my fingers hurt, and there are a tonne of other threads about this very subject with far more experienced people than me explaining in far better detail than I ever could. Apart from headphones being designed to sound good, (yeah, I know there are 'for monitoring' headphones that give a supposedly flat frequency response), your ear canal is a totally different animal to a room. For a start if you are listening on cans, the sound in the headphones only occupies each can and goes straight into you ear canal. On speakers in a room, the sound bounces around the room a load of times before reaching your ears. I'd do a search though. I only say that because my explanation of things is pretty crappy.
 
Xtremely Interesting Point you make which of course I'd like to say I took into consideration B4 but I sure did not .. and as I think about what you just said, it all makes perfect sense to me. I've noticed that no matter how hard I try, my mixes tend to have much more bottom than I like to hear yet while I'm cutting Lows both per channel and Master, through the phones it sounds great until I burn a CD to play in various formats like the Car, Home CD Player and Small Boom Box.

Hmmm, for me, it's a matter of having my setup in a family setting where the only time I can really do some work is when everyone is up stairs watching the Tube. And the only time I can record via Mics is when noone is home because these Mics pick up people walking and even the TV comes through.

I'm going to read about mixing through Cans and see what I learn from that

Thanks Big Time
 
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