Using headphone for mixing

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bouldersoundguy said:
I use a measurement mic and analysis software to check the monitors where I mix,.
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I have a spare room if you'd like to come and live at my place and EQ my mixes..?

Think about it... Australia's a wonderful place to be this time of year... the kangaroos are flowering and all the poisonous tourist-targeting snakes are just waking up for spring... luvverly...
 
Audio Mastering said:
Headphones are good for checking mixes, not mixing mixes.
Cj
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I do 98% of each mix on speakers before fine tuning panning etc. in 'phones. But I always go back to speakers for the final check. That includes taking the mixes to any system I can get my hands on.
 
Armistice said:
I have a spare room if you'd like to come and live at my place and EQ my mixes..?

Think about it... Australia's a wonderful place to be this time of year... the kangaroos are flowering and all the poisonous tourist-targeting snakes are just waking up for spring... luvverly...
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Get me an open round trip ticket and you're on. It's hinting at autumn here which means blizzards are only a couple of months away, and there's a big fire up in the foothills that could get blown my way. You don't have wildfires there, do you?
 
@grim - thanks for that link to SOS. I belong to the group who has no choice but to use headphones for monitoring and mixing (at least until I can afford to build a decent home studio). I don't even have studio headphones. All I have is a pair of i-wave headphones I got at a discount store for $9. But I'm used to it. I listen to music with my mp3 player more often than from a stereo speaker system.

Anyway, we still have to try to listen to our mixes on different systems. The MP3 mixing clinic is the best place to test mixes through other members' sound systems.

I think mixing through headphones has its advantages espacially now that we live in an iPod nation. It's just that everywhere you look there's a guy with headphones or earphones stuck to his ears, oblivious of the world around him.

Can't wait to sample some crossfeed plug-ins!
 
I'm waiting for the thread "Using earbuds for mixing"....

Someone will pop up and ask some time soon, I'm sure! :D
 
Villain S Deeds said:
Makes sense to me: Years ago I read a book on home recording which said to use any speakers you're used to listening to music on (if you don't have/can't afford monitors). So, I use the speakers from a home stereo system that I've had for half of my life (the stereo's long gone, but the speakers remain). I also use my Grado SR-60 headphones which are low-end audiophile headphones. By using reference tracks, I can get results that I'm fairly satisfied with.
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you make do how you make do, thats a fact of homerecording life

untreated rooms, substandard monitoring chains, cheaper gear, all facts of life


doesnt make it any less fun and doesnt mean you cant get decent results....
 
asv said:
I just received my AKG K271 headphone yesterday.

It's lacking bass. but great on the upper mids and treble

Any idea how to monitor my bass level using this headset?
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These headphones need a lot of burning in - I have heard say about 500 hours is normal.
 
I can't stand headphones. I use them when I have to, like for ovedubbing drums but it drives me nuts having things over my ears. It seems very unnatural and I like having several feet of air between my ears and anything that makes sound.

I don't like what using headphones does to a drummer's finesse.

I wish we could get back to recording a band and no one used headphones, that seems like the way it was meant to be. Then the sound mixes in the air, not in the computer. There's problems but I'd like to solve those and record a different way than everyone has accepted as the way to do it. I think there's some fundamental flaws in what's the norm.
 
Armistice said:
I'm waiting for the thread "Using earbuds for mixing"....

Someone will pop up and ask some time soon, I'm sure! :D
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SHHHHH ........... I'm trying to to mix using my earbuds and it's hard enough as it is. :laughings: :laughings:







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kcearl said:
you make do how you make do, thats a fact of homerecording life

untreated rooms, substandard monitoring chains, cheaper gear, all facts of life


doesnt make it any less fun and doesnt mean you cant get decent results....
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I think that a lot of people here forget that this is HOMErecording.com. I mean c'mon people. Not everyone can have a dedicated room for mixing/recording. Most people here probably live with other people and I'm sure that those other people don't want to hear an unfinished (or finished) song over and over and over and over. A lot of people have to mix/record when the other people are asleep. That's just the way it is with HOME recording. :mad:


Heck...I have to mix in a kitchen on my home computer using heaphones and/or computer speakers. Of course I wouldn't recommend it and I admit that my mixes suck, but I have fun. :):):):)





Good night. I'm going home now. :D
 
Yeah, headphones are very practical for home studio's, and decent headphones are much cheaper than decent monitors.

The most obvious problem with headphones is the stereo seperation makes it much easier to find the space and/or width for each instrument, which won't always translate back to speakers.

So don’t forget to try some speakers... and occasionally switch to mono on the headphones, just to make sure that brilliant EQ job you did isn’t just a spacial illusion :-)
 
I'll use headphones and speakers, and sometimes even my little cheapo portable speakers. I can have them all hooked up the mixer at once, so why not? I try to find the best balance between them all. That way I can get the best mix that my equipment will allow. Heck, I'll check it out with my crappy earbuds too, since I tend to use them for general music listening anyway.
 
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