good mixing headphones?

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i'm just getting started with setting up a little portable studio operation, and will be recording my band very soon. my problem is that i don't have the money to spend on good quality monitors and/or acoustic treatment to my room, so are there any good quality headphones that would work well for mixing/editing? the headphones i have now are these okay pioneers, but they're made for listening to music, not mixing it, so any aspect of a recording that is weak is artificially bumped up, and i wanna be able to hear the mixes and recordings exactly as they are so i know what to do to them. thanks.
 
i think you'll get a flood of people sayin just save up for montors, or get to know the best pair of hifi speakers that you can lay your hands to,,,but to answer your question,

i've had great results with sennheiser hd280s..

definitely wouldn't recommended doing full mixes on any headphones tho.
 
There is no such thing as "good mixing headphones."

There are certainly better sounding headphones than others -- There are higher quality headphones than others -- There are crappy sounding headphones, there are good sounding headphones -- But there are no headphones where you can expect a reasonable mixing situation.
 
I second the Sennheiser HD280 Pros... I used those until a dog ate 'em.

Now I use AKG MKII K271s. Both are great IMO.
 
Kingofpain678 said:
KRK Rokit 5's at least ;)
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yeah i've been doing some research and i'll probably be going soon to check out some krk's soon. but in the meantime, for some rough mixes until i get the monitors, would the 280's get me by?
 
You probably can get KRK's for the same price as the Sennheisers.
I use Event TR8's but I do like the sound of my AKG 240 MKII but monitors are probably outside your budget.
 
captions87 said:
yeah i've been doing some research and i'll probably be going soon to check out some krk's soon. but in the meantime, for some rough mixes until i get the monitors, would the 280's get me by?
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i'm using sennheiser hd 380 pro for similar purposes to good effect. but i can't mix in them alone. i have to check my balances against my monitors (KRK Rokkit 5's), my computer speakers, a mono boombox, and sometimes the car stereo.

once it sounds good on all those systems i'm pretty sure it's right lol.
 
I hate to admit this, but after my wife saw about 100 cd-r's in the trash, she asked why I through them out. I explained in annoyance how I have to keep mixing then listen in the car and the home theatre to see if its sounds right, so I keep remixing and burning until I get it right!.

She bought me a 3 pack of cd-rw discs. That was about a year ago and I'm still on the first disc!

Let me know if I need to explain this further!:laughings:
 
Massive Master said:
There is no such thing as "good mixing headphones."

There are certainly better sounding headphones than others -- There are higher quality headphones than others -- There are crappy sounding headphones, there are good sounding headphones -- But there are no headphones where you can expect a reasonable mixing situation.
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This is all true.
 
I use Sony MDR7506 for everything but I'm not a pro. They do sound good though. They're $100-$150.
 
... that's it Betty... 35 to go... :laughings:


I've often been surprised how good something I've mixed on monitors sounds via headphones, but I'm usually surprised at how bad something I've mixed via headphones (when I've had no choice) sounds via speakers...

Do what you have to do, but you will need monitors at some stage...
 
When I'm in the big studio I certainly can't let it finalize without being gone over via monitor. But when I personally am sitting there doing crap like removing air, snipping and rearranging stuff, etc. It's annoying to hear my speakers go on and off. So I prefer headphones for everything in that arranging and cleaning up stage.
 
leadlungbetty said:
When I'm in the big studio I certainly can't let it finalize without being gone over via monitor. But when I personally am sitting there doing crap like removing air, snipping and rearranging stuff, etc. It's annoying to hear my speakers go on and off. So I prefer headphones for everything in that arranging and cleaning up stage.
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Yup - best to have both.

You can hear things with headphones that can be missed with loudspeakers.

But it is always best to check with the loudspeakers.

I do what you do, it seems - edit mistly on headphones as you can hear fine detail better, but make sure it's checked on the monitors as well.
 
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