I am a drummer and recording myself for practice as well as to make tracks to give to my drum teacher at the local music store to recommend me for gigs(demos basically). I am using the following equipment

I just got a new set from Old Lyme (very expensive!). I'm thinking of cleaning the old ones. Any thoughts? As you probably know, they are foam covered with black velvet/ velour...

Woolite, anyone? Has anyone done this before ?

My ADA interface is an E-MU 0404 PCI card:

http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/0404/

With its outputs leading to my PreSonus HP4 headphone amp:

http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/HP4

I'm using a pair of Sennheiser HD280 Pro Closed-Back Headphones and what I'm experiencing is after finding mic placement/settings and levels for all instruments (inc. guitars, bass, drums, even vocals) is a great quality sound through the phones, however upon listening to the same thing through speakers, sounds very different, and quite frankly, a lot worse.

ok so for some reason i cannot hear live or playback signal coming into the headphones BUT i when i push the talkback button on my O2R i can hear talkbalk just fine. any idea's of what may be causing this?
thanks

Hi all,

Does anybody know how to do a headphone mix in Pro Tools Le? Any advice or suggestions would really be appreciated. Thanks in advance. :D

Hi Everybody,

I've been looking around at reasonably affordable studio headphones. One's such as the Beyerdynamic DT 990's, AKG's K271 & 171 and I would love to know which would be the best buy for use in mixing & editing situations. I know that ideally monitors should be used but for the work I'm doing headphones are necessary.
So, any suggestions?

I have a set of Sennheiser HD 280's.

I'm not happy with them, I bought them because they are closed. I need closed headphones for tracking and mix downs since I can't always use my monitors if I want to work later at night.

What are a really good pair of closed headphones?

Howdy.

I'm in a situation where I have to mix on headphones.

The good news is that I have access to Grado GS1000's.

My question is this.

The D/A that I'm using is a Lucid DA9624. I'm wondering how much WORSE this is compared to a dedicated headphone amp like the Grace m902.

this is the 2ed pair of Sennheiser HD280 Pro headphones that i've worn out this year
after a month or two they lose their clarity
6 months, the transients are distorting all the time, it's gross