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Date: Sun May 13, 2012 11:28 am ((PDT))
Ema wrote: "Never use headphones for mixing though."
Way back when I was trained as a recording engineer the mantra was the same=
. But then everyone listened on home or car stereo, film sound was generall=
y stereo, and the Walkman was a newfangled thing.
Now that (almost) everyone listens on headphones, it makes a lot more sense=
to mix that way. Although film sound should be mixed in a proper suite, th=
e likes of which most of us don't own and so must rent.
On a pragmatic point, it is a lot easier to buy a good set of headphones an=
d hear what you are mixing. It costs a lot more to buy a good set of speake=
rs, and takes much more effort to tune a listening room so that it is no lo=
nger a detrimental factor. I can hear at least an octave lower on my cans t=
han on my near-field monitors. And since I don't have an isolated mix studi=
o, the clarity of the cans is much better too.
-- Robin Parmar
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