YanKleber
Retired
A couple of days ago a newcomer fellow has started a thread asking opinions about two products (one of them from Waves) which promises to turn headphones into a reliable replacements for true monitors. I am one of the dudes that doubted that they aren't more than pure babble mostly because the way as it was advertised (I always distrust products which excessive hyping).
Now yesterday I was reading some online articles about convolution and impulse response and this question started to hammer inside my head. Since this technology has the ability of insert environmental characteristics into the equation (and it does it really fine with reverb/amp/cab/mike/etc simulation) I think that it is YES possible to put some "virtual air" in the cans.
What I think is that it wouldn't be "replacing" the monitors but actually doing something better that is make the cans sound like X or Y monitors in X or Y environment using X or Y equipment. This way we could have an idea how the mix would sound in a treated studio, an opened space, a big party room, a house hall stereo, inside a car... Wouldn't it be really a thing?
I sincerely think that it IS possible and that overtime someone will release a tool able to do that. What do you fellows think about this?
Now yesterday I was reading some online articles about convolution and impulse response and this question started to hammer inside my head. Since this technology has the ability of insert environmental characteristics into the equation (and it does it really fine with reverb/amp/cab/mike/etc simulation) I think that it is YES possible to put some "virtual air" in the cans.
What I think is that it wouldn't be "replacing" the monitors but actually doing something better that is make the cans sound like X or Y monitors in X or Y environment using X or Y equipment. This way we could have an idea how the mix would sound in a treated studio, an opened space, a big party room, a house hall stereo, inside a car... Wouldn't it be really a thing?
I sincerely think that it IS possible and that overtime someone will release a tool able to do that. What do you fellows think about this?