atomictoyz
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Greetings Fellow Recordists,
Today I asked myself a question that I believe has not been covered directly and would like to hear what everone has to say.
The Question: When Tracking specifically, are you using Headphones or Monitors?
I was trying to redo a bass track that I recorded the night before. I had been monitoring the track through my nearfields and listening to eq changes after a poorly done vocal line was tracked. My wife called me upstairs because lunch was ready. I went back down to finish what I was doing, but my 2 year old was now in bed above the studio so I turned off the monitors and put on the headphones, did the bass track through a DI box and eq'd it all with headphones... I had not put any thought into what I was doing, too task oriented to weigh all my options, I just did it because my daughter was sleeping. There was a significant difference between the 2 eq's depending on how I monitored for "tracking". Please tell me your thoughts, Ideas and personal experiences that might be similar.
Peace,
Dennis
Today I asked myself a question that I believe has not been covered directly and would like to hear what everone has to say.
The Question: When Tracking specifically, are you using Headphones or Monitors?
I was trying to redo a bass track that I recorded the night before. I had been monitoring the track through my nearfields and listening to eq changes after a poorly done vocal line was tracked. My wife called me upstairs because lunch was ready. I went back down to finish what I was doing, but my 2 year old was now in bed above the studio so I turned off the monitors and put on the headphones, did the bass track through a DI box and eq'd it all with headphones... I had not put any thought into what I was doing, too task oriented to weigh all my options, I just did it because my daughter was sleeping. There was a significant difference between the 2 eq's depending on how I monitored for "tracking". Please tell me your thoughts, Ideas and personal experiences that might be similar.
Peace,
Dennis