Headphones: Are they suitable to produce with?

[legend4ry]

I just got the KRK KNS 8400's.


They're amazing to produce on, flat and comfortable. They are even better than my monitors for the general composition stage.

[didi]

Selector Moldy suggested some Sony mdr 7506 and I never looked back. Only cans in that price range (like $80) I would ever consider making tunes with. Also good for getting a feel for how something will go down in a club on a proper system without the butt rumble of course.

It's good to see I'm not the only one extolling the virtues of these cans.

OP, get yourself down to your nearest decent store, and try them on.

p.s. DONT RULE OUT SONY MDR 7506. Around your price range (£100ish) seriously good pair of headphones.

p.p.s. This site dishes out solid information about frequency response, frequency range etc. on most good headphones

http://en.goldenears.net/index.php?mid= ... nes&page=1

[Pulp]

Selector Moldy suggested some Sony mdr 7506 and I never looked back. Only cans in that price range (like $80) I would ever consider making tunes with. Also good for getting a feel for how something will go down in a club on a proper system without the butt rumble of course.

It's good to see I'm not the only one extolling the virtues of these cans.

OP, get yourself down to your nearest decent store, and try them on.

p.s. DONT RULE OUT SONY MDR 7506. Around your price range (£100ish) seriously good pair of headphones.

p.p.s. This site dishes out solid information about frequency response, frequency range etc. on most good headphones

http://en.goldenears.net/index.php?mid= ... nes&page=1

Hard to find a decent store around here, never mind a store with them all to try!

[Pulp]

Would my Line 6 UX2 interface be enough to power them the DT770s?

[accordionfan]

30$ skull candy headphones with dubstep playin is the best pleasure you can give

[CE9958]

I produce strictly in iPod headphones

[3rdeye]

ultrasone pro 900

or any of the Ultrasone Proline range. Wicked!

[Sonika]

I produce strictly in iPod headphones

Yeah I've found that my song sounds the best in them because it eliminates most of it, therefore making my entire mixdown sound, on the whole, much more clean.

No if only I could get everyone else to stop using DECENT equipment....

[CE9958]

I produce strictly in iPod headphones

Yeah I've found that my song sounds the best in them because it eliminates most of it, therefore making my entire mixdown sound, on the whole, much more clean.

No if only I could get everyone else to stop using DECENT equipment....

Right? I don't know how else to get these people to stop buying nice things. I've been using my Mac 128k since '95 makin sick beetz with iPod headphones!

[Electric_Head]

I`ve been producing for the last year on Sennheiser CX300II which are in-ear phones.
If you know your system well and reference your tunes on different systems, you`ll manage just fine.
I`ve ordered a set of Beyerdynamics DT990.
I`ll let you know next week what they`re like.

[Earjax]

simple answer, yes. Though it'd be hard to produce solely on one pair of headphones, as not matter how hard you try they will never perfectly emulate a system or monitors. I currently produce on my krk rp6's and then use my £80 senny spii's for mixdowns.

[horsefeather]

is a a Sennheiser HD 25-SP II any good for producing ?

[Brian Oblivion]

I used headphones quite a lot. I wouldnt trust them for volume leveling but the same reason I find them essential for eqing etc, especially removing hiss from samples, you can hear stuff in phones you cant hear on speakers, the faintest little air in a sound you can pick out. Its also the only time I get to hear the full 30hz to 20k banging out together in a balanced way, just a shame I cant feel that low end shake.

[DJ Crackle]

I produce in headphones a lot! I always check my mixdowns on other systems and the headphones don't seem to be the best for checking the levels in your mix, as others have already said, but I was surprised by how much I started to sometimes prefer headphones when banging out a tune.

[hutyluty]

i mix down on headphones cos i'm stuck with some crap computer speakers otherwise

[VirtualMark]

About the problem of mixing on headphones. As there's 100% stereo seperation you don't get the crosstalk. Things like isone pro, redline monitor and the focusrite vrm box all try to fix this by introducing the crosstalk. I've tried them and they do help a bit. Also just switching to mono every now and then can help you check your mix too.

I've got akg k702's, and i swear they sound better than my monitors. its like all my life i've been missing half of the music, these things are unreal. they're not cheap tho, but you get what you pay for.

[Earjax]

is a a Sennheiser HD 25-SP II any good for producing ?

definitely! but I wouldn't use them unless you have a point of reference that easily accessible, by that I mean actual speakers you can use, otherwise you can end up giving your track quite a stale and thin sound

[bassinine]

basically all top level audio pros use ultrasones or grado.

[CE9958]

basically all top level audio pros use ultrasones or grado.

Absolute load of crap.



Not that they aren't good headphones but that kind of generalization is practically blasphemy!

What you should say is, Basically all top level audio pros use either... ultrasones, grado, Sennheiser, sony, beyerdynamic, or AKG. To name a few. In fact last time I looked the Skrill man was mixing in some Sennheiser HD650s and I know that Jonathan Gooch uses Beyerdynamics

[bassinine]

basically all top level audio pros use ultrasones or grado.

Absolute load of crap.



Not that they aren't good headphones but that kind of generalization is practically blasphemy!

What you should say is, Basically all top level audio pros use either... ultrasones, grado, Sennheiser, sony, beyerdynamic, or AKG. To name a few. In fact last time I looked the Skrill man was mixing in some Sennheiser HD650s and I know that Jonathan Gooch uses Beyerdynamics

ok? dubstep producers don't count as top level audio engineers.

plenty of professionals use sennheiser, sony, etc. i wasn't saying they were bad.

but seriously, talk to pro audio engineers, touring musicians (not just producers), etc. basically everyone will tell you ultrasone. ultrasone. and ultrasone. if you have enough money, then maybe you can look into some grado's.