HEADPHONES FOR MIXING LIVE SOUND UPGRADE
HEADPHONES FOR MIXING LIVE SOUND PRO

HEADPHONES FOR MIXING LIVE SOUND UPGRADE

You can listen to my stuff on my website or blog to see if you think my work is even 'good' cause that might also validate or disvalue my 2 cents.I think people vastly overestimate the cost of room treatment, and the need to upgrade monitors. I should also mention that I've been slightly forced to use headphones over monitors because of where i live and previously lived for years now so its what my ears are used to and sometimes that really is the best reason to use something.

I use AKG 240 studio headphones, around $100 new (if they still make'm). I find doing all my eqing, compressing, limiting, reverbs, delay etc is more effective in the cans and when I'm done a mix, there's usually just some quick level adjusting. I'm in an apartment, and unless i drop thousands on upgrading my rockit 5's and room treatment (when i can hardly monitor loud and/or very often), I'll stick with the headphones and then use my krks to check levels. The personal preference of any given customer draws on many issues, though. After questing for the most neutral useful reference headphones, I'm very happy with all the Denons at their respective price points.Īnd I'll reiterate what I've said in other threads that I am a dealer for all the brands so I have no special affiliation with Denon. The other interesting point is the Denons, being closed back, have that advantage for tracking, from the standpoint of both the artist and the engineer if they are in the same room as the client, flying notably in the face of the assumption, stated above, that open backed cans are the only way to go for real quality. Though, for those who are used to brighter cans like the Beyers and the 701s, they may feel more at home with the 5000s. The 5000s kind of suffer from middle child syndrome. If the 5000s are a stretch, you should maybe stick with the 2000s. IOW, if you can easily afford the 5000s, you should consider the 7000s. If you can afford them, the 7000s are definitely a more inspiring jump up from the 2000s than the 5000s.

The 2000s are actually very similar to the 7000s response-wise, but not as transparent.

HEADPHONES FOR MIXING LIVE SOUND PRO

Anyone else use the 5000's and is there a huge difference compared to the 7000s.Denon doesn't market through pro audio venues so much as home audio dealers.Įxcept for being brighter around 7-10k accentuating sibilance, the 5000s have a theoretically flatter response, but the 7000s are definitely cleaner, and more open in a wonderfully refined and transparent way. Why is that? I wish I had enough mula to get the 7000's. Although there are not too many sites that carry these. I think i might go with the Denon ah-d5000's now.

Headphones for mixing live sound