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Hey, I would google this, I've had a look but not sure exactly what I'm looking for, like the name or whatever

I study music technology and we have a listening exam and we need some headphones that "do not boost bass", if I'm getting some headphones for the exam I'd like them to be able to be used when i'm producing as well.

I'd like to try the headphones before buying them, if they have no "bass boost" will they be useless in the studio or is that exactly what you want. I'm a little hazy on what sort of headphones you should use.

Hope that makes sense and someone can point me in the right direction. I don't want to be spending much over £100.

when buying headphones, the first three things you should look out for are frequency range and decibal/mW input/output. The larger the frequency range, and the larger the input and output strengths, the nicer the headphones are generally speaking.

As far as "bass boosting" goes, it's more of a preference thing I believe. If you're referring to the "bass boost" I've heard about in dre beats or whatever, I would try to avoid using something like that for an exam, just because it's going to alter the state of whatever you're listening to.

OK im going to let you know how this works as quickly and as simple as possible

1) No Bass Boosted(Battery Powered) Head Phones in the studio environment ever, but a nice pair of DJ headphones with good bass to have on the side is nice.
2)Studio is flat signal only, itunes/ipod/beats/skulcandys is not studio
3)Studio Headphones are not for bass, they are for (mix down monitoring, quite environments, a second reference apart from monitors) and making sure everything fits in the mix at a good volume with each other.
4)Get some AKG 240s, look and sound weird at first but its actually what you should use. The headphone thing is a huge gimmick that confuses a lot of people but if you doing something for a class and going to be doing studio stuff, get the 240s.

PillowFight wrote:when buying headphones, the first three things you should look out for are frequency range and decibal/mW input/output. The larger the frequency range, and the larger the input and output strengths, the nicer the headphones are generally speaking.

As far as "bass boosting" goes, it's more of a preference thing I believe. If you're referring to the "bass boost" I've heard about in dre beats or whatever, I would try to avoid using something like that for an exam, just because it's going to alter the state of whatever you're listening to.

Yeah I've hard beats are bad

Thatoneguy1224 wrote:OK im going to let you know how this works as quickly and as simple as possible

1) No Bass Boosted(Battery Powered) Head Phones in the studio environment ever, but a nice pair of DJ headphones with good bass to have on the side is nice.
2)Studio is flat signal only, itunes/ipod/beats/skulcandys is not studio
3)Studio Headphones are not for bass, they are for (mix down monitoring, quite environments, a second reference apart from monitors) and making sure everything fits in the mix at a good volume with each other.
4)Get some AKG 240s, look and sound weird at first but its actually what you should use. The headphone thing is a huge gimmick that confuses a lot of people but if you doing something for a class and going to be doing studio stuff, get the 240s.

Alright thanks man. So the DJ Headphones are probably better for listening but the studio are better for my exam and the studio?

I'll check them out, thanks a lot.

PillowFight wrote:when buying headphones, the first three things you should look out for are frequency range and decibal/mW input/output. The larger the frequency range, and the larger the input and output strengths, the nicer the headphones are generally speaking.

As far as "bass boosting" goes, it's more of a preference thing I believe. If you're referring to the "bass boost" I've heard about in dre beats or whatever, I would try to avoid using something like that for an exam, just because it's going to alter the state of whatever you're listening to.

sick track in your sig btw

HD280's are in that price range and I use them a lot in the studio. (Alongside a £2K monitoring rig with £800 worth of acoustic treatment) and they still help show things up that I'll miss through the main monitors.

I can recommend both HD25's and MDR-V700's

Beyer DT-990 Pro.

Fletchur wrote:

PillowFight wrote:when buying headphones, the first three things you should look out for are frequency range and decibal/mW input/output. The larger the frequency range, and the larger the input and output strengths, the nicer the headphones are generally speaking.

As far as "bass boosting" goes, it's more of a preference thing I believe. If you're referring to the "bass boost" I've heard about in dre beats or whatever, I would try to avoid using something like that for an exam, just because it's going to alter the state of whatever you're listening to.

sick track in your sig btw

thanks mate, glad u dig it

I use the Shure SRH750 DJ at home, they're pretty nice but a bit over your price range. I think they're like 150 US Dollars

outbound wrote:HD280's are in that price range and I use them a lot in the studio. (Alongside a £2K monitoring rig with £800 worth of acoustic treatment) and they still help show things up that I'll miss through the main monitors.

Thanks i'll check them out

ehbrums1 wrote:I can recommend both HD25's and MDR-V700's

i will look them up, thanks for the suggestion