6. Re: Mixing using Headphones

["Avocet" madl74]

Scott,

There's a BBC Monograph on the design of a stereo control room. I've
got it saved somewhere but I can't find it. It discussed the Haas
Effect and its use when creating a stereo illusion using reflective
baffles in the control room to give multiple path lengths. It also
explains why you don't get a good stereo illusion in an auditorium or
cinema hence the use of multiple sound sources.

It is the reflections and the Haas Effect in a mixing studio or in
your lounge which creates the stereo illusion, so ideally you should
mix in a standard living room which of course doesn't exist.

There is no Haas Effect when using headphones, so what you hear
"inside your head" has to be interpreted as a stereo image.

David

David Brinicombe
North Devon, UK
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