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Re: Mixing using Headphones

Subject: Re: Mixing using Headphones
From: "Mike Rooke" picnet2
Date: Wed May 23, 2012 5:30 am ((PDT))
what Dan said.

It should at least provide probe mics to shove in your ears to create the 
inverse response for the headphones in use. 

Canned solutions live in cans.
-M


--- In  Dan Dugan <> wrote:
>
> 
> 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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