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Should I trust my monitors or headphones?
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Mindfly
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Posted : May 24, 2004 20:00
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Help needed:
Just doing a final mixdown - but but but!
When playing certain notes (reaching certain frequenses) the bassline occasionally gets "too high" in volume - when listening on my monitors.
But when I use the headphones, the bass is actually too low (in volume). Which should I trust?
Monitors: Alesis Monitor One Passive
Headphones: AKG K240 Studio
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Toxical(rotem)
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Posted : May 24, 2004 20:12
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Anak
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Posted : May 24, 2004 20:14
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i got the same headies as you and from my experience i'll say trust them both. maybe find some middle-way. headphones are ok to mix imho...i use them mostly because they give a better sound than my crappy stereo system. but, you shouldnt ONLY trust your headphones. because in the end you want it to sound good when it collides with all these sweet molecules flying around.....you want it to sound good at a distance of multiple metres, not some milimetres...
my point of view, maybe someone got another, more professional one. cheers
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Mindfly
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Posted : May 25, 2004 11:08
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On 2004-05-24 22:28, Das Fung wrote:
How can you make reverb on headphones ?
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Reverb is not the issue (and actually, at times, I prefer doing reverb on headphones), in this particular case...however EQ is, I think... perhaps...argh! Hate this shit... 
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Boobytrip
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Posted : May 25, 2004 11:10
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I have the same headphones and they are really okay. But not for leveling tracks in a mix ! My rule of thumb is: do all your leveling and compression-settings on decent monitors. Do all (or most) of your finetuning of reverbs on headphones. |
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Tomer
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Posted : May 25, 2004 11:56
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without a doubt , trust what u here in monitors , especialy in low frequencies !
but anyway , good mix is good mix wherever u hear it ! phones ,monitors ,transistor whatever .
think about that ...
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ND
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Posted : May 25, 2004 13:45
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hey lars, when i got pretty same problem, i'm making it sounds good in any of them monitors/headphones, but with bass first i think you should go for it on the monitors.
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Mindfly
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Posted : May 25, 2004 21:14
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Thanx to each and everyone of you!
However... the problem is kinda solved, and this is quite embarrasing...
Well, my monitors are passive and hooked up to an old JVC amp. Without knowing it I've accidentally turned the bass-knob (of the amp) up to full... Since the headphones are connected to the mixer, they have not been getting the audiosignal from the amplifier... So as a result the low frequencies sounded very different from monitors to headies...argh!
Sorry for the time you've taken...
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WAVELOGIX
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Posted : May 25, 2004 23:12
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all i can say is .. LOL  |
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A.Rosengren
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Posted : May 26, 2004 00:33
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I have the same setup... only thou i have the active alesis...
and most of the times they tend to be pretty accurate both of them...
ohhh now i just read your last post
haha ;D nice one Mindfly
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