Headphones for mixing

sunshiner · Post by **sunshiner** » Fri Jan 22, 2021 10:36 am

Haven't recorded a single note yet but have a question - do any of you use headphones instead of monitors for mixing and how do you go about their shorcomings like absence of crossfeed?

Post by **Doog** » Fri Jan 22, 2021 10:45 am

It's never concerned me tbh, but I'm not a professional; just be sure to listen to your mixes on real speakers too? It's certainly nothing you should be worrying about if you haven't even started recording.

Regardless, it seems there's plugins nowadays that can emulate this for headphone mixing, so seems the world is your oyster any which way you want it.

sunshiner · Post by **sunshiner** » Fri Jan 22, 2021 10:57 am

Instead of doing I do my research to find excuses not to. I just saw a pair of relatively affordable monitors, then thought I have no "treated environment" to actually use them properly, looked into using headphones. I just need to start recording shit with what I have I guess

Post by **Doog** » Fri Jan 22, 2021 11:22 am

Yeah, just dive in; there's already plenty of engineering and DAW things to learn on the way before you need to start spending energy on such things as crossfeed.

Freddy V-C · Post by **Freddy V-C** » Fri Jan 22, 2021 11:58 am

Personally, I would say using monitors in an untreated environment is still preferable to mixing on headphones. Heck, I've been mixing on some cheapo Logitech speakers in a completely untreated room lately, and it still sounds better than anything I could have mixed on headphones.

Although Doog is right, there is now technology that simulates an "in-the-room" sound on headphones.

sunshiner · Post by **sunshiner** » Fri Jan 22, 2021 12:38 pm

Cheers, gonna give a try to both headphones and PC speakers