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Re: Mixing using Headphones

Subject: Re: Mixing using Headphones
From: "Dan Dugan" dandugan_1999
Date: Tue May 22, 2012 6:08 pm ((PDT))
On May 22, 2012, at 5:43 PM, robin_parmar_sound wrote:

> Dan Dugan wrote:
> 
>> This is ridiculous. The system doesn't include 
>> any way for equalizing your headphones. Different 
>> models of headphones have very different sounds.
> 
> Dan, why would this device try to emulate different headphones? That seems 
> contrary to its task to emulate different speaker systems. Surely you would 
> want to listen using the headphones you know best, so that at least one 
> parameter was being held constant.

In order to provide a reference environment that can then be altered to 
represent different monitor speakers and environments, it seems to me that it 
would be necessary to equalize the colorations of the headphones being used. 
Otherwise everyone is hearing something different.

-Dan








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sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Krause.



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