Tracking with headphones????

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Here's a question for every body. Should you track with headphones or with monitors? Some self professed recording hot shot (some old dude who brags about recording in the 50's) said that the young generaation is caught up in tracking with monitors. What does every body else track with beacause I fing it hard to track with headphones.


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i always track with monitors... The thing is that in recording, once you've tracked thats it, unless you re record over and over. Monitoring what is going to disk is a real important aspect of recording. If you are going to record and then mixdown, you want it to sound consistent and to be honest, headphones just don't sound right. track and monitor with the same thing, ie monitors. you want to hear wats going to tape and that's the whole point of monitoring the tape return (in-line recording).

i use both, being a dj and all, my ears are trained to headphones
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i first use headshells then when i listen back i listen threw the monitors.

i think its just a matter of training your ears,
you hear two different sounds, in the headshells you get a more tight with everyrhing be so on point,

then you listen to monitors and you get a more open sound evrything is on point but it sounds loose or not as tight as the headshells.


you need to get some good headshells, that makes the difference.
good luck with this.

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no problem with tracking with headphones....but if you mix with headphones it more than likely wont sound the way u think it will

Tracking with headphones can also lead to early ear fatigue.

make the beat with the headphones. track the beat wit the mons.