Recommend me some good studio headphones

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First of all i don't have money to spend on good studio monitors so therefore I have to use headphones. Plus Im gonna live in a dorm next year (college!) so I don't think my roomies will appreciate the "noise".
So thx
 
AKG K240 or K240DF.

OR you could spend just a little more and get some Tannoy Proto-J's, and I think the Yorkville's are right there too.


Would your roomies rather hear your monitors for 4 hours of mix down or hear your phones for 24 hours of mixdown?

I see where you're coming from though. Good Luck:)


Later

F.S.
 
Blue bear is right on this one. The overall response cannot be very accurate with a tiny driver an inch from your ear.

That said, my Sony MDR-V6000's give a pretty good translation in a late night pinch. Go Sony, no baloney!
 
Big full ear shit. 40mm drivers or better.

I like to listen to my mixes through a set of Koss TD/80 headphones just to see if theres anything I might be missing in the mix. If I had to mix with headphones I'd have to go with my Sony MDRV7000DJ headphones. They have 50mm drivers and sound pretty good but they don't give up the highs like the TD/80's.

Headphones belong in the recording booth or in a back pack.
 
Yeah, you're absolutely not going to get a good mix with headphones, so don't spend a lot of money on them. I agree, the Sony MDR-V600. You can find them for less than $80. They have the exact same driver elements as the popular MDR-7506 and Sony "DJ" cans, but are cheaper and more comfortable to wear. They just don’t look as cool as those others.

barefoot
 
Ya you will grow to hate mixing on phones once you get monitors you will think back to all the wasted time. And Marty & Barefoot are right there is no sence in spending big money on phones because you will never get paid back in terms of your mix. The only way I ever got any kind of mix with phones was to head to the cars with a note pad and paper and take notes to make adjustments (50 times). And it took forever to even get a reasonably unhumiliating mix. And even at that if I didn't have 2 or 3 cars I never would have pulled that off. Every one sounds different. Plus $20.00 blow on CD's to mix down... ARGGGG

Now I mix in the room, take it to almost any car or stereo and it sounds like what I heard while mixing:) Ahh it's great!!

Later

F.S.

PS and I have $200.00 phones:eek:
 
It seems that I wont get a good mix headphones.
Then recommend me some affordable monitors
I m going to purchase a aardvark q10 soon if that helps making decisions.
 
i was thinking...

cant i just get a $10 pair of closed headphones from bestbuy and be fine?

i mean, i use my monitors to mix with, so all hte headphones are for is listening while i record...haha
 
wouldn't a good pair of headphones come handy when...

say, when you are micing something in the same room as the monitors, and you have to rely on your headphones for micing position?

That's one thing I had to appreciate for my Sony cans cuz with my old bass-heavy headphones, I tend to mic things "real" thin cuz everything on those cheap cans sound good(at least decent) and bassy.

Just something to share here :)

AL
 
AKG 55's ARE TERRIBLE STAY AWAY!

My brother got some APEX 90's and they actually sound decent for the price (50 dollars canadian).

But, those are cheaper sets. Just try and listen to them before you buy them. Similar to monitoring speakers its really subjective to the listener.
 
ambi said:
Similar to monitoring speakers its really subjective to the listener.
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Well, that's a whole other debate.

Personally, I trust my objective test intruments to tell me which speakers and room setups give the most accurate reproduction of the recorded waveform.

barefoot
 
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