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A kick ass Headphone instead of a monitor?
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Illuminatix
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Posted : Feb 19, 2004 16:06
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Hi there folks how are you?
Are there good enough headphones to use instead of a monitor? Reason I ask is, I will be playing around in my home home, at late night, and I dont want to wake up everyone around me and their dogs. lol
What are the good headphones for the job? They might not be accurate enough, but does any headphone get close to monitor quality? Price is an important factor as well! 
Thanks a million in advance!
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Illuminatix
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Posted : Feb 19, 2004 16:37
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Tks superglue. Would I be able to use headphones with a DECENT idea of what I am doing at least?
And then I would go to my friend´s house to do a final check on his monitors. My issue is, I cant use a monitor because I would wake people up in the middle of the night. Unfair to ruin other people´s lives while having fun
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Colin OOOD
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Posted : Feb 19, 2004 16:42
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Headphones have plenty of uses in the studio, but it's not a good idea to do your final mix using them and nothing else. It is perfectly possible to write an entire track using headphones, as long as you mix the song mainly using monitors as well as headphones.
It is perfectly possible to mix a track at low volumes - in fact this can often give better reuslts than mixing very loud. For instance, Ott used a $75 portable cassette player to mix his Blumenkraft album on.
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Illuminatix
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Posted : Feb 19, 2004 16:55
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Ok, track writing on the headphones, and final version on a monitor, tweaking all sounds to make them enjoyable on a big system. Works?
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Colin OOOD
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Posted : Feb 19, 2004 17:47
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Te_nTe
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Posted : Feb 19, 2004 19:15
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if so why the fuck you need good headphones???
buy them at 10 euros in the market.(but you need to be sure that it will not damage your ear) |
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Illuminatix
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Posted : Feb 20, 2004 03:32
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Colin, sounds like a plan then
Te_nte, I have some selfrespect bro.... My ears are not a toilet
What do you guys think about the Sennheiser HD 500? It seems like a good option at a nice price - around $90 correct?
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Jeto
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Posted : Feb 20, 2004 06:02
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SONY MDR700 |
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Te_nTe
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Posted : Feb 20, 2004 10:22
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ok iluminatti
go for akg240.very nice |
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greywolve
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Posted : Feb 20, 2004 11:20
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i have the sennheisier hd500 , they rock, i often preffer listening to music on them than on my speakers, and for headphones in my opinion you cant beat sennheisiers |
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UIU
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Posted : Feb 20, 2004 12:37
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I think the headphone's weakness in the bass. Their advantage is stereo imaging. |
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bandarlog
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Posted : Feb 20, 2004 22:45
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I just bought the akg k240 studio and it ROCKS! ANd UIU: I can say that the bass on the akg 240s is WAY better than on average hifi speakers. Now I can hear very clearly the difference between frequencies in the bass, whicj I couldn't on my speakers without putting them absurdly loud. Offcourse I don't owe monitors, probably they're much better for producing. But I have the same neighbourproblem as illuminati and I'd say: go for good headphones! Beats ordinary speakers! |
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S.D6 (Yakir .B.)
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Posted : Feb 26, 2004 19:06
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You Can use the:
AKG K240M
Yamaha RH5MA
NexuS |
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