is it ok to trust your headphones over your monitors?
i know this has been discussed loads but i trust what i hear in my headphones rather than my monitors.
i have the rokit6 monitors and the dt880’s headphones
i just feel that what i hear in my headphones when i make music and also when i listen to music sounds better than the speakers
Normally you’ll want to mix off / trust your headphones until you have a superbly treated room to take full advantage of your monitors.
For example, when I started I would mix off of my RP5’s and it would sound thin on other systems. When I started mixing on my AKG K240’s, it would sound warmer and fuller.
I’m no acoustics expert, but that has been my experience. It depends heavily on the headphones you’re using as well.
[quote]ksonic (04/05/2012)[hr]Normally you’ll want to mix off / trust your headphones until you have a superbly treated room to take full advantage of your monitors.
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+1
a sound engineer once said to me the best gift you can give your monitors is a well treated room.
I do a lot of work on my Shure 315’s as I travel for work, and am considering this as my next purchase…
Focusrite VRM - its under 100 quid and has gotten some decent reviews. As others have said this device is more for mastering than mixing, but seems quite a useful tool.
[quote]SherpaPsy (07/05/2012)[hr]I do a lot of work on my Shure 315’s as I travel for work, and am considering this as my next purchase…
Focusrite VRM - its under 100 quid and has gotten some decent reviews. As others have said this device is more for mastering than mixing, but seems quite a useful tool.
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i have the vrm box. its mainly good for referencing your track on diffrerent simulated systems. sole mixing might not be all that great because in my opiniopn it lacks the stereo width you get when mixing on monitors.
it’s kind of weird to because when your mixing on the vrm box through your headphones you think that you have that width space but when you transfer over to monitors you can hear a big difference or least i could.
it does have it’s uses though… like when you’re not able to blast your monitors!! you can certainly get some good ideas started with these. check the pro studio setting! kicks sound fat and tight!! 