Headphone and my 1000 set up

Yo I have my Fostex Monitors connected to my PC, My 1000 connected to my PC and my Motif 6 connected to my 1000. Sometimes I have to build in the headphones late at night cause my sessions get loud as hell. Building in the headphones Sucks in my opinion. But anyhow, any of you professionals know how I can get more bang out of my headphones. Things just sound low man! I have heard about headphone Amps and all that but not sure if i should get one. I'm using the Sony joints by the way.

Thanks

i think the change needs to occur in your head

i know exactly what you mean - but in the case of you producing on your headphones, you shouldn't so much be concerned with the sound so much as the orchestration. stop working about "does this kick sound fat enough" and start worrying about "did i put this kick in the right place."

you know what i mean? worry about sound when you get the chance. you can always go back and layer another kick in, etc. take a step back when you're on headphones and simply worry about the construction and orchestration. that's my advice.

i do the same thing.

mksphnx2001 wrote:Yo I have my Fostex Monitors connected to my PC, My 1000 connected to my PC and my Motif 6 connected to my 1000. Sometimes I have to build in the headphones late at night cause my sessions get loud as hell. Building in the headphones Sucks in my opinion. But anyhow, any of you professionals know how I can get more bang out of my headphones. Things just sound low man! I have heard about headphone Amps and all that but not sure if i should get one. I'm using the Sony joints by the way.

Thanks

you need to take regular breaks with headphones, i have a set of technics RPDJ 1200's, and a set of technics RPDH 1200's, literally the same sound, except one is tight on the ears, and other one goes around the ears. when i switch between them i notice stuff i hadn't noticed before.

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Well, your Sony headphones aren't exactly the best. Secondly, maybe it takes more to drive then your unit can give off...so a headphone amp will help that. Finally, headphones are a pain in the ass to make beats with...unless you use them for a long time and know how to compensate for their weaknesses.

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To kind of follow up on what Ant said:

Rockin hard with the speaks might get you more crunked up while youre making music, but its generally agreed that listening at a lower volume is actually better for mixing. The lower volumes give you a better representation of the different frequencies and enable you to set levels more accurately and end up with a better sounding product. A lot of pros will burn their music to cd, and play it through a regular boombox or cd player, and use it as their standard for eqing, etc. to see if it sounds right out the regular speakers. (I think Just Blaze was talking about that recently in Scratch magazine).

Anyway, something that ALL of us should be concerned with is permanent hearing loss, and I guarantee that every member on this board is experiencing it right now to at least some degree, whether they know it or not...exposure to noise 85 dB and above starts to cause PERMANENT damage...typical dB level at the club: 95-110 dB, performing on stage: 110-150 dB...you start to lose your high frequency hearing first, and once you lose it, it will never come back.

You may start to find that you have to listen to your headphones at a louder and louder volume over time because of hearing loss.

My suggestion for the late night sessions is to listen to your headphones at a lower volume than you think you need to, your subconscious mind will become used to that sound level, and recognize it as adequate. Loud headphone amps are good if you absolutely need to hear whats going on in the headphones OVER ambient noise (like in a club DJ situation), but if youre just wearing them to make music in your home studio...be safe and take care of your hearing, because it is so important to people like us in the music making world.

Yoshimi wrote:Well, your Sony headphones aren't exactly the best. Secondly, maybe it takes more to drive then your unit can give off...so a headphone amp will help that. Finally, headphones are a pain in the ass to make beats with...unless you use them for a long time and know how to compensate for their weaknesses.

Sennheiser 250 mkII headphones are expensive studio standard, but they sound great and I can wear them for hours without problems.
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