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THORNSZ Just Startin'
THORNSZ
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Oct 17, 2011
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Feb 8, 2012 8:24 PM

Mixing headphones

Can anybody suggest some headphones affordable good and accurate enough to mix some POD HD TONES?  as of now i'm kinda in a struggle of the accuracy of mixing the tones... i usually mix my tones on a behringer active PA. It does sound good but when i record them some times the treble or mid or bass sounds a bit more than the actual thing that i mixed with the PA. It sounds kinda scrachy...

Tags: pod, tones, edit, patch, effects, hd500, recording_pod, recording_problems
  • Iknowathingortwo
    MerlinFL
    1,667 posts since
    Jul 17, 2007
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    Feb 8, 2012 9:26 PM (in response to THORNSZ)
    Re: Mixing headphones

    Personally I love my AKG K414 & K250 but I'm not sure these are what you'd call "budget conscience" headphones.

     

    I've even had a pair of KOSS headphones that were open air but were very comfortable and I thought they were extremely accurate for being much less expensive than what I use now.

     

    If possible, I think it best to bring music that you KNOW sounds a certain way you like and then plug the headphones into your .mp3 player or the stores without any added EQ.  Whichever ones sound the best to the music you like - those are the best choice for you.

     

    This is the only non-subjective way I could answer this.  I hope it helps.

     

    Take care,

    Neal

  • Dshow Just Startin'
    Dshow
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    Feb 18, 2007
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    Feb 9, 2012 12:20 PM (in response to THORNSZ)
    Re: Mixing headphones

    Hi,

    I'm using Sennheiser HD280 Silver Headphones. In my opinion they are very good headphones for the POD HD.

    Not too cheap though.

    http://www.sennheiser.com/sennheiser/home_en.nsf/root/professional_headphones-headsets_headphones_005327

  • chaosbringer Just Startin'
    chaosbringer
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    Feb 10, 2012 4:27 AM (in response to THORNSZ)
    Re: Mixing headphones

    ultrasone pro 750...not the cheapest but well worth the money

  • markcockerill Just Startin'
    markcockerill
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    Feb 10, 2012 4:44 AM (in response to THORNSZ)
    Re: Mixing headphones

    I have a slightly different approach. I use Bose headphones but rather than monitor the HD500 directly, I have the HD500 output to 2 channels on my analogue mixing desk and plug the headphones in there. What I hear from the desk is precisely what gets recorded. The added benefit to this method is that the patches I create on the HD will need very little tweaking in my live environment as I use studio/direct output exclusively.

     

    I think I read it somewhere else on the forum that there is something not quite right about the headphone output on the HD500 so I don't use it. The Bose headphones as well as my older Sony cans bear testiment to that.

     

    In conclusion, if you mix on the HD500 with headphones then I suppose you really must use that socket to record as it ain't the same as what comes out of the quarter inch jacks and xlrs.

    • THORNSZ Just Startin'
      THORNSZ
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      Feb 27, 2012 11:50 AM (in response to markcockerill)
      Re: Mixing headphones

      Aight thanks for the quick info... i'll try to count that in. your setup sounds expensive. hehe

       

       

      markcockerill wrote:

       

      In conclusion, if you mix on the HD500 with headphones then I suppose you really must use that socket to record as it ain't the same as what comes out of the quarter inch jacks and xlrs.

       

      i dont get it. how do you do that? i use to record with the usb connection direct to my PC. any suggestions regarding that?

  • lubbertvg Just Startin'
    lubbertvg
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    Mar 5, 2012 7:26 AM (in response to THORNSZ)
    Re: Mixing headphones

    Beyer Dynamic DT 990 pro !!

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