Some help please - Studio headphones..!

Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 8:32 am

Hello!

I need some good headphones for mixing and mastering in my little home studio and i got several options:
1. AKG K271
2. AKG K240
3. Sennheiser HD280
4. Grado SR125

I need them to be comfertable as well.
I use Echo Gina3g.
Which one do you think will be the best for me?

Thanks. Wink

Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 9:14 am

dont mix on headphones, for the love of god.

i use hd280s and love them for live work.

Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 9:37 am

I have some studio monitors but the have some extra bass beacuse of the wood desk it sits on, and my room doesnt have good enaugh acoustics.
And I need some decent volume for mixing-mastering and i cant push the monitors because of my parents.

So headphones is the way for me.

Can anybody give some comparison between these headphones?

Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 10:39 am

Use open back, not closed back. HD280s (wearing a pair) are good for playback (parents also Razz

) and brilliant for live work as mentioned, but whenever I mix on them there's just something off. Open back are meant to be a lot more realistic and there are things I notice on a pair of crappy open backs (think £10) that I haven't noticed with the 280s.

I mean, I would check a mix with the 280s (for the flat response) but I would never trust it until I heard it in a few other places and liked it.

Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 10:43 am

They're all cheap.

As has been said, don't mix on headphones.
Especially if you want to push volume and do a lot of it. It will kill your hearing.

If you want an accurate example of what you're listening to, and a pleasant sound too. Buy some HD 600s. But be prepared for the spacial characteristics of your mixes to be out of whack on real speakers.

Mixes from your 280's will probably sound stupid on my speakers and laughable on my 600s.

Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 3:07 pm

I need some headphones for the mastering-mixing. this is the fact.
and i dont have the money for those HD600, so please help me with what i can do...
thanks

Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 1:41 am

AKG K 240DF

Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 3:15 am

It's tough being a stupid kid. But the fact is, you want closed back headphones when mixing in a noisy environment or when recording in the studio and in particular, vocals.

For mixing purposes, you want any kind of open back a.k.a. open-air headphones. That is a headphones that whenwas present you're hearing he is virtually normal and unrestricted by the headphones.

My first pair of truly quality headphones I got with my birthday money at 12 years of age, in 1968, which are were the then the brand spanking new Sennheiser HD414. Later, I needed a closed back pair of headphones and on my following birthday I purchased the KOSS Pro4AA's.

Now I still have those same models and other newer versions. I know how to mix with headphones because I have years of extensive experience comparing them to good control room studio monitors. Bottom line is, you'll never get an acceptable mix relying strictly upon headphones. That's why you are a stupid kid and we are professionals. But parents can hinder your ability to listen to blaring loud monitors for countless hours. You'll learn a lot by carefully listening to other peoples ' recordings through headphones but bass will always nearly be impossible to properly judge through headphones. What it sounds like you don't have enough bass, you have enough bass. When the bass sounds correct, it's way too much. But you really have to listen to other references before beginning to try and mix.

Listen to your audio mother
Ms. Remy Ann David

By the way, you are wet behind your ears.

Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 12:56 pm

i have a pair of Technics RpDh1200, i picked them up for just under £150, but you can get them off ebay for about £100-£110.

they are AWESOME, i use them for close monitoring as well as live sound

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