Just simple question about making music using headphone only

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Now, I have a headphone (Sennheiser HD280pro) and Speaker (Soundmax A3000). Yup, I know that my speaker is not suitable. The question is "Is it possible to work without monitor - only headphone ? Why"

p/s: Now, I plan to save my money to take Rokit 5 :)

Thanks for reading my simple question :D
 
If you search here you will find plenty of threads on 'mixing with headphones'. The simple answer is: you are unlikely to produce good mixes using only headphones.
You can, however, burn a copy of your mix to CD, then listen to that on as many different systems as you can (car, home, earpods, computer speakers, friend's apartment, etc etc), make notes, adjust mix, try again. You want your mix to sound as good as possible on all possible playback systems
 
Rockblin, Are you talking about recording with headphones or mixing with headphones ?
 
mjbphotos said:
If you search here you will find plenty of threads on 'mixing with headphones'. The simple answer is: you are unlikely to produce good mixes using only headphones.
You can, however, burn a copy of your mix to CD, then listen to that on as many different systems as you can (car, home, earpods, computer speakers, friend's apartment, etc etc), make notes, adjust mix, try again. You want your mix to sound as good as possible on all possible playback systems
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Thanks mjbphotos, I'll read it right now.

grimtraveller said:
Rockblin, Are you talking about recording with headphones or mixing with headphones ?
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Hi grimtraveller, I'm talking about mixing with headphones
 
Headphones will always lie to you to a degree. It is not natural to hear isolated signals in each ear. Not to mention that it takes me about 3 minutes to become fatigued with a pair of cans on my head.

Don't discount your cheap speakers. I find that final decisions on mixes are made with a crappy pair of PC speakers. IMO, I would avoid the KRK 5's. They will stroke your mixes while lying to you. Just my opinion from my personal experience.

That being said, you can 'learn' from whatever you are monitoring with. Once you find what works with any monitor or cans, and it translated
well on other systems, none of this matters. It is much easier to accomplish with a decent set of monitors tho....
 
jimmys69 said:
Don't discount your cheap speakers. I find that final decisions on mixes are made with a crappy pair of PC speakers. IMO, I would avoid the KRK 5's. They will stroke your mixes while lying to you. Just my opinion from my personal experience.

That being said, you can 'learn' from whatever you are monitoring with. Once you find what works with any monitor or cans, and it translated
well on other systems, none of this matters. It is much easier to accomplish with a decent set of monitors tho....
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if you know your headphones really well, you can mix on them, BUT it will never sound nearly as good as it would mixed on monitors you know half as well. So, can you do it, of course. Is it recommended, absolutely not.

And I second what jimmys says, do not get the KRKs, save up just a little more and get something else!!!
 
I started with the Rockit G25's. After upgrading to Event TR8's, then KRK G28's, I realized how hard it was to get mixes to translate on the little guys. The low end is hyped and inaccurate. I don't have that problem now.
 
jimmys69 said:
I started with the Rockit G25's. After upgrading to Event TR8's, then KRK G28's, I realized how hard it was to get mixes to translate on the little guys. The low end is hyped and inaccurate. I don't have that problem now.
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Thanks for your experience. So, KRK 5 G2's have a problem with the low end?
 
rockblin said:
Thanks for your experience. So, KRK 5 G2's have a problem with the low end?
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They create a problem with the low end. Monitors are there to give us a flat true representation of what we are working on. The KRKs boost their low end and high end leaving them with scooped mids. Meaning, when you go to listen to your mix on another system it is going to be all midrange with no bass or treble, of course until your ears learn all of this and you teach yourself how to compensate... IMO, the best budget monitors out there are the JBL LSR2300 series. If you plan on going with anything on the lower end of this, I would just save your money and stick with your headphones and computer speakers...
 
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