pHIL,pompeiisneaks wrote: ↑Fri Jul 31, 2020 6:55 pmOdd I seem to have heard a ton that mixing/mastering with headphones is a cardinal sin?norburybrook wrote: ↑Fri Jul 31, 2020 3:07 pm you could always use a good set of headphones instead.
a $500 set of phones will sound as good as a $10,000 set of monitors in a $10,000 treated room well not quite but you get my drift
I use Sennheiser HD650's with a Musical fidelity headphone amp, the sound is very close to my $10,000 quested monitors in the treated room.
Just a thought.
M
You do this as a career, is that just a myth then?
Something about true quality sound reproduction can't happen in a small headphone like a set of monitors can?
but I'm willing to learn from the professionals.
~Phil
the OP said he was just practicing with his guitar/monitors hence my suggestion. You are correct headphones are not ideal for mixing/mastering. Spatial awareness is the tricky thing, reverbs etc are hard to judge on phones , frequency wise they are usually better than a bad pair of monitors in an untreated room though
there are some software developments though like waves NX that cleverly makes headphone mixing more like mixing in a room. I have this and it really works well I have a good room/monitors so it's not used much but it certainly is interesting.
https://www.waves.com/mixing-rush-dream ... ard-chycki
A professional mix engineer would however be able to do a pretty good mix on phones if they had to.
M