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It seems obvious that the best headphones for any recording are whatever the mixing engineer used. Any seeming improvement caused by other gear suggests a defi
by mynameishere 11y ago
It seems obvious that the best headphones for any recording are whatever the mixing engineer used. Any seeming improvement caused by other gear suggests a deficiency in either the engineer or one's self (whether in hearing or in equipment.) The answer in most cases would suggest that the consumer has worse taste and worse gear than the professionals.
Perhaps every recording should list what headphones were used during the final mix.
- georgebonnr 11y agoActually you'd want the mastering engineer's gear, not the mix engineer. And they both almost never use headphones to do the bulk of their work - it's almost always specialized studio monitors.
- SixSigma 11y agoThen you should be listening with a single speaker FM radio or whatever they use for speakers at Wal-mart. Pop music is made to spread
- secstate 11y agoHaha, isn't that the truth :) Using nice headphones with Top-40 pop music is like using a Ferrari to do the grocery shopping with the kids. If you're gonna listen to it, you might as well do it with your phone speaker turned up as loudly as possible, as that's the purpose of the music, to get as many people listening to it as possible.
- SixSigma 11y agoI said it because when I was in the music industry, we did our final pre-mastering studio mix on a pair of shitty $10 computer speakers - it has to sound ok everywhere, not just on your $1k+ studio monitors