I think people will have these discussions in the awareness that they are off-topic, but as long as no-one says anything people will try to get away with it! But if there are protests then people will drop the topic. I guess 313 has always had a bit of a tendency to do this sort of thing though - it moves in cycles really.
And no, I don't want to end up creating a meta-thread here :) Brendan | -----Original Message----- | From: henrique casanova [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: 06 December 2002 14:04 | To: 313@hyperreal.org | Subject: Re: (313) headphones for monitoring? | | | seems like 313 has become a gear list latly. i think that | off-topic mails | (including this one) are 85% of the discussion this last weeks.. : ] | | ----- Original Message ----- | From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | To: <313@hyperreal.org> | Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 11:48 AM | Subject: (313) headphones for monitoring? | | | > On Fri, 06 Dec 2002, Simon M Pascoe wrote: | > | > >does anyone have any recommendations for quality | > headphones for monitoring (ie; not DJ headphones) | > please ? | > > sImon Pascoe | > | > ***Simon: Sony's MDR-V600 are good headphones, and | > thus good for any type of listening. But, I would | > strongly caution you against producing only with | > headphones. If you produce with just headphones, your | > brain and your ears will work together to make things | > sound better than they really are and | > psychoacoustically fill in the sonic holes. Then when | > you play something on a speaker system that you've | > produced while monitoring on headphones, you will find | > that your balances will be off (too much/too little of | > different frequencies). I broke this rule a month or | > so back and it was obvious: I had been working on a | > remix for Tristan (Phonopsia) and decided to play with | > my rough version during a live PA. All was sounding | > great till I dropped in the bassline I had created | > and--even over the club's system--it just wasn't | > cutting it. Turned out that I had done the bassline | > one night while my girlfriend was over; she was really | > tired and had gone to bed, and I was working on | > headphones so as not to disturb her. So the rest of | > the remix, that which had been done on monitors, was | > fine, but the balance, because I had done it on | > headphones, wasn't all that it was cracked up to be | > because my ears and my brain had made it sound better | > and more "right" than it really was. (Over the | > headphones, it was like "wow, this is a sweet | > bassline"; over the club speakers--and mind you, | > everything else sounded great--it was like "uh, what | > the hell is this?") Note to Tristan: Don't worry, | > I'll be fixing this! :) So, if you want to get a bit | > of work done--say late at night--and don't want to | > disturb room mates/partners with your work, use the | > headphones to get some rough work done (editing sounds, | > things like that that aren't frequency and | > balance-based) and not disturb them, but it is best to | > use monitors and headphones when getting into EQing, | > mixdowns, mastering, etc-- monitors to get the balances | > right, and then headphones later to listen to the | > quieter and more detailed parts, fade outs, listen for | > unwanted clicks, errors, etc, and fine tune 'em. Hope | > this helps. Take care. Andrew | > | > albums out now: Sprung (http://bip-hop.com) | > More Destructive Than Organized | > (http://staalplaat.com) | > Highest Common Denominator (http://pieheadrecords.com) | > Physical and Mental Health (http://dialrecords.com) | > 74'02 (split with Hypo) (http://tsunami-addiction.com) | > check Cognition (http://techno.ca/cognition) | > for upcoming appearance and release updates | > __________________________________________________________ | > Get your FREE personalized e-mail at http://www.canada.com | > | |
