Headphones for mixing

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Hey I'm looking to get some high quality headphones for mixing/monitoring since I'm going to move into an appartment and I probably can't be making music using speakers at night then :D

So now I'm looking for some high quality headphones in the 150-200 dollar range to compliment my speakers, and give me a good reference in the wee hours :)

I've read REALLY good things about the Beyerdynamic DT990, but I've really got a thing for Sennheiser...

what the heck, any suggestions are welcome...

people...brands & models I should check out..drop em here!

thanks

Mo-Kay
 
I dont know the type of person u are...

but if u live anything like me u probly want a pair that are durable as well as good on sound...

I find i stopped payin alot for headphones because they break about once a month...

but i had this really nice set of audio technica monitoring headphones....and every part on the head phone would snap back in place if broken...they were basically indestructable...only headphones i've seen like that ...

just thought i'd share that...
 
Headphones are tricky. I bought some AKG(not sure which model) open ear thinking they were fairly flat, and all my mixes came out eq'd like a smile with really badly mixed bottom end paid $100. Then I got the opposite smile effect out of some senhieser closed ear phones $59.00. Used some Sony's in a studio that sounded sweet, but they were a little bass heavy, but they still worked well. I finally picked up some shure in-ear monitors and they worked pretty well all around $100. I still have to tweak a bit with real monitors after it is done, but I like them well enough. They kill the sound too which is nice if you have a noisy room, + you won't need loud volumes to pick out things in the mix which is nice.

Bottom line is I believe trail and error is the only way to find a set of phones that work for you, and then when you finally find them they will be the only phones you will want to use.
 
just turn down your monitors and watch the output levels on the mixer or computer or what not....i live in an apt too and sometimes you have to make do without breaking your music.
 
yeah, outside..with no wind right...no room acoustics to cause problems....lol


@ Bear maybe I kinda mis-formulated my question...

I'm not looking for something to make my final mixes on, and I know mixing at high volume isnt a great idea either...

But I'm looking for some headphones that offer a well-balanced sound, so I can work comfortably when I choose to use headphones at night...

:)

maybe that clarifies it
 
I use to do that, mix with headphones when all the roomies and neighbors go to sleep. I ended up doing more harm than good most of the time. I'd put the night's work up on the monitors the next day and realize it was better before I did anything. It's okay for quick and dirty stuff like editing, cleaning up noise, notching feedback/resonances, other assorted bitch work before final mixing. When it comes time to do anything that's the least bit subjective, there's really no substitute for monitors.
Some good all purpose cans are the Sennheiser HD280 Pro.
 
Forget the nice headphones for mixing thats pointless....mix during the day on monitors...headphones and monitors are two different worlds. thats all i got to say....all the headphones i use for tracking are like 50 bucks so nothing special....as i dont feel you need anything special in that stage when ur just recording your "raw" sound.
 
i edit on headphones at a coffeshop down the street, but never even dare to mix on them.
 
I do virtually all of my mixing on headphones simply because I lack monitors, unless I were to count my computer speakers. I do it this way also because I can hear more detail... I have yet to really hear any of my mixes on anything other than the headphones and PC speakers.
 
Hi,
Mixing through monitors is important. But a good pair of headphones that I really like and use for referencing like listening for any punch ins and smooth transitions of scenes etc. are the "Sennheiser HD 280 pro." really good.
evt
 
I would be very curious to know what my mixes sound like through real monitors. Though I'm still having a hard time getting the sound I want out of my headphones.

Yet this is for fun. After we track our album I am so having it professionally mixed. It would be too much for me!
 
Spaztic said:
I swear I see this post about 2 times a month....
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I rephrased my question you know....like...half a page up? :rolleyes:
thanks for the folks making suggestions of what headphones to check out
 
Whenever I'm forced to mix with headphones, I always find myself checking the mix through monitors every 10 minutes or so, and everytime I do that I find myself having to re-tweak the sound (especially the eq) completely. I've found that headphones are good for getting creative ideas for how you might want a song to sound like, or brainstorming different samples together, but not much else past that. Headphones are completely unreliable for fine-tuning a mix.
 
I just wanted some suggestions for headphones to check out... :(
 
Mo-Kay said:
I just wanted some suggestions for headphones to check out... :(
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My bad, I was going off on a tangent because I'm always disappointed on how my headphone mixes turn out....I wish they would make a headphone that would realistically represent what a monitor would sound like! I'm sure this would be impossible given the nature of how headphones sit in relation to your ears. I can tell you that I would avoid the AKG 240 studio phones, I bought 2 sets of these and after about a year, within the same week, both of them went out on the right side! It was pretty strange.
 
Spaztic said:
I swear I see this post about 2 times a month....
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That's because many novices/rookies don't know any better and keep asking why they aren't getting their mixes to sound right whne they attempt to mix with headphones.........!!
 
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