Thread: Open back headphones?

Generally speaking, you don't want open back headphones for tracking. Your assumption is 100% correct!

Jeff

That being said, having a good pair of open back cans is good. They image way better than sealed cans.
You can get a cheap pair of closed cans (AKG K44/K55) that sound good enough to let you track vocals with them. I have probably 10 pair of K44s for large ensemble recordings. Having used them myself and numerous others using them, I've never had a complaint with regards to their sound quality. No one would guess they were $25 headphones.
Cheers-
J

I have a set of open backed AKG K77's. They sound amazing and I have indeed used them for tracking but I'd rather not, my DT 100's are much better for tracking - much less overspill to the vocal mike.

I've actually put a piece of duct tape on the outside of my Sennheiser 545's which helps to seal the deal. Otherwise I just use my Sennheiser 280's. Those are particularly good for shut-ins with plug-ins.

Help! I'm stuck in my control room! I need to be unstuck.
Mx. Remy Ann David

Even closed back phones can leak a bit of program into a vocal setup that is on stun for particular vocalists.

Dave, did you see that example of how you can remove (headphone bleed, click track, finger noise etc) in Sequoia using the Visual Spectral Cleaner ? I'm amazed!
http://recording.org/groups/samplitu...l-cleaner.html

Interesting to note what a long way we've come and what our expectations have evolved to. Up until 1966 and their Revolver album, the Beatles did not use headphones while tracking or overdubbing. Overdubs were accomplished while they listened to playback on loudspeakers. Bleed was minimized by placing the speaker in the null of the ribbon mic where John was singing on one side of the figure eight and Paul, George or both were singing into the other side.

Jeff

Chris, your link is giving me an error message?

Jeff