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hello and welcome back to the channel
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today I'm going to be talking all about
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headphones because in one of my previous
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videos where I talked about the
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importance of studio monitor calibration
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and mixing on studio monitors I got the
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same three questions over and over again
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firstly what about just mixing on
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headphones can you mix on headphones
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secondly what ohm value of headphones
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should you use
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so what resistance of headphones 32 ohms
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250 ohms etc and what's the difference
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and thirdly which are better for mixing
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and mastering open back or closed back
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headphones and why so that's what I'm
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going to be talking about in this video
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it's all about headphones so let's just
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dive right in I want to quickly say that
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as I talked about the negatives of using
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headphones I also have solutions for
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most of these problems so you just wait
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a few minutes I've got a lot of
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actionable tips and advice you can use
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to get a much better response out of
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your headphones most of the questions
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focused on can you just mix in
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headphones why do you need studio
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monitors so that's what I'm going to
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start with basically when is it a good
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time to grab the headphones and when
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might you want to rely on studio
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monitors so firstly there's loads of
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things that headphones are fantastic for
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which is why I would recommend all
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beginners just simply start on
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headphones they're cheaper for a start
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than investing in a set of studio
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monitors they're also obviously far more
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private so you can use them anywhere and
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they also sound the same anywhere
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whether you're on a bus in your studio
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in a living room they're gonna sound
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pretty much the same whatever you use
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them and because you don't need to worry
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about how your room is interacting with
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the sound as long as you know what good
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music sounds like on your headphones
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it's usually a really good reference to
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go towards another positive is that
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they're excellent for fine editing tasks
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especially if there's noise in the room
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listening for clicks pops distortions
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and also when setting reverb trails like
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reverb times and delay settings using
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headphones and just getting really
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locked in and closed in on what you're
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doing it can really be helpful
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however there's plenty of times when
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headphones start to fall down and this
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doesn't mean that you can't mix on them
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of course you can but it means that
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there's areas where studio monitors just
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Excel and the first thing is that it's
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really difficult to gauge your stereo
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separation properly on head
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because they're almost too perfect they
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give you all the right channel in the
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right ear and all of the left in the
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left ear and there's no crosstalk
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between the two channels so what this is
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is when you're mixing in studio monitors
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this is my right hand studio monitor
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that's my right here might be flipped
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for you the way I hear the right channel
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is actually that I hear it in my right
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ear and a bit of it in my left and it
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also bounces around the room and I hear
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the sound in a very spacious way whereas
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in headphones you simply hear only the
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right channel in your right ear and this
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means that things tend to sound really
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wide and separated in your headphones
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even if you try to do a mono check so
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you press mono on your interface or on
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your mixer the sound in the headphones
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is still really separated so it can
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actually be hard to gauge how
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instruments are sort of folding on top
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of each other and mushing together
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whereas in studio monitors you just get
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this more spacious sound where you can
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typically tell where instruments are
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stepping on each other quicker
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another reason is fatigue and the
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enjoyment of music so often especially
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in hot climates if you've got to wear
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headphones for four five six hours it's
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going to get really hot often sweaty and
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just becomes really heavy and
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uncomfortable and I know that sounds
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like a really pathetic problem it's not
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something I actually deal with in my
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studio because it's really cold here I
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live in Scotland but especially if
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you're in a hotter climate so if you're
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you know many places in the States or in
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India or potentially in southern Europe
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especially if it's a hot or a humid day
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listening in headphones can become
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really fatiguing and just not enjoyable
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whereas studio monitors there's no
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pressure on your ear you've got a good
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airflow and it's not really something
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that you have to worry about another
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potential issue along with the mono
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compatibility is checking for phase
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problems and it's not always a problem
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in headphones it does depend on which
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type you have but anyone that's ever
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recorded you know live drums bass
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guitars you know that getting everything
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in phase and also with the correct
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polarity really really matters and often
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engineers find it easier to check the
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phase on studio monitors it can
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absolutely be done on headphones
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especially if you know what you're
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listening for but it can sometimes be
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harder to list
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Alfre especially if you're new to
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critical listening and finally the last
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potential issue with headphones is that
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many many people said but what if I'm
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listening on flat headphones it isn't
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that okay and the thing is there is no
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such thing as a flat pair of headphones
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as far as I'm aware almost every pair of
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headphones even mixing and mastering
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headphones have their own tonal balance
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profiles just it's down to the
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electronics the drivers the shape the
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size your own ears everything will
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affect the curve of the headphones so to
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speak I'm oversimplifying it even my
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favorite headphones right now not at all
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sponsored these are extremely bright in
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the high-end they've got a nice little
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bass boost on them as well I really
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really enjoy that but they are not flat
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the way that my studio monitors are flat
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when I've calibrated them so although
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you could simply listen to a lot of
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reference tracks and then your own music
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to gauge how you should be mixing the
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issue is if your headphones are overly
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bright it can mean that it can be really
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difficult to judge the clarity in the
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mid-range or if they're really Basie it
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can be difficult to be accurate and make
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really precise and accurate moves down
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in the low end however these problems
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I've mentioned I have a couple of ways
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to get over them so firstly as for the
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mono compatibility issue a tip that a
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friend of mine gave me which also helps
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for the overall balance of instruments
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is actually to just plug your headphones
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in turn the volume up really high
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separate the cones out a little bit just
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like this and then hold them away from
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you or put them down on your desk and
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then just listen to your song and also
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listen to a few bits of other music and
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often this gives you an idea of how it
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sounds when everything sort of mushed
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together the way it might be on a phone
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speaker or small pair of speakers and
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when I only had headphones this was a
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really really good tip it often helped
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me tell when a vocal was far too loud or
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quiet or whether high hats were being
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lost under the mix or were far too loud
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so genuinely try it seems like a little
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bit of a gimmicky trick but it did help
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me and it might help you to now as for
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fixing that crosstalk issue where you
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really should be hearing the right
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channel in your right ear and your left
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ear and the whole room there's a couple
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of software's which I do not use and I'm
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not sponsored by the companies so I
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don't even own these softwares
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one is can opener by good hurts and
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another I think is waves and X and quite
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a few people swear by these and also
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loads of people would never go near them
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what these do is they feed a bit of one
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channel into the other and they also
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simulate more of sort of an acoustic
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room space I suppose so there's a lot of
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you know complex algorithms and coding
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that I do not understand that goes into
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them but the advice here is that there
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are several mix engineers and producers
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who do rely on tools like that when
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they're traveling where they can only
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use headphones and I thought I should at
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least mention it to those that might be
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curious see if you can get a free trial
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or something like that test it out it
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might be for you
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and then that issue about the headphones
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not being flat well just in one of my
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previous videos as I mentioned sonar
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works for flattening your studio monitor
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response sonar works has a headphone
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addition where you can actually flatten
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out the response of your headphones so
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they've measured the response of
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probably hundreds of headphones at this
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point and you can also have yours
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individually calibrated for a perfect
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response and just in the same way that
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their plug-in and standalone software
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flattened out the response of your
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studio monitors they can do the same
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with your headphones this tends to have
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mixed results between people whether
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they like it or dislike it but there's
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no doubt that it makes it flat
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personally in my headphones I've over
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the last three or four years I've become
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so accustomed to the sound of these
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wonderful headphones that it was a bit
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odd for me at first especially in the
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top end but when it came to the bass it
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really just extended it made it sound
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really really good so I do turn I do
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turn the headphone addition on to check
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the bass at least but I do quite like
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the sound of my headphones so if you're
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struggling with your headphones it might
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be worth checking out those three
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software's that I just mentioned okay so
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I'm gonna move on to the next question
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now because I think I've covered the
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sort of headphones versus studio
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monitors debate and I hope that's helped
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a little bit the next is what ohm value
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of headphones should I have some
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headphones simply come up one and others
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such as these bio dynamics or ver
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dynamics they come in different options
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from 32 ohms 250 ohm versions so you've
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got low and high own versions people are
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asking which should I get and why and
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which ones sound best
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now it all depends on what you're going
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to be plugging it into so if you're
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listening to music or mixing from a
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smartphone or a laptop with a headphone
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output you're going to want a lower own
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value because these headphones require a
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lot less power or gain to get a really
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really high volume so if you're just
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listening on your phone or your laptop
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you won't need to turn the volume all
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the way up and you'll still have a super
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loud super full signal however if you
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get at 250 or a 600 ohm pair of
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headphones and plug those into your
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laptop output or your phone even with
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the volume maxed out you're not likely
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to get the right amount of volume that
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you can actually hear what's going on
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it's going to be very quiet in your ears
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even though the volume is maxed out and
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to properly drive these higher ohm
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headphones you want to make sure you
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have a decent audio interface I've
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managed to get a really good volume out
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of all of the audience interfaces and
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I'm sure other people can comment down
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below what they use whether it works or
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not but typically if you have a good
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headphone amplifier or a good audio
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interface you'll be able to drive 250
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ohm headphones no problem at all now
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when it comes to the sound quality
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differences between the two so in an
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ideal situation you're in a studio
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you've got a headphone amp or an
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interface which which headphones sound
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better
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I believe along with many many other
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professionals and audio files that the
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higher ohm headphones just sound
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generally better typically a deeper
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richer bass response kind of a wider
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deeper soundstage it's quite difficult
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to put this stuff into words and kind of
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vocalize it but just generally a better
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image better sonic image I suppose and
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for many people just for the sheer
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enjoyment of listening to music as a
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hobby typically you'll see people using
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higher ohm headphones
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however I think a lot of people
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including myself in a blind test would
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not guess correctly every single time it
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really does depend on the source
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material if you're listening to a
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low-quality mp3 file or you're streaming
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at a low quality I I don't know if I
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could even tell the difference being
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completely truthful whereas if I'm
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listening to a very high quality file
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that's been fantastically well mixed a
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mass
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I would be able to tell the difference
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between a higher ohm headphone and a
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lower ohm headphone but they're both
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gonna deliver excellent results and it
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typically matters what brand you choose
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on what type of headphone tends to
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matter a bit more than just obsessing
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over own values and finally I'll try to
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keep this last question brief whilst the
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difference between close back and open
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back headphones but more specifically
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which one sounds better for mixing and
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mastering most people will know you've
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got two general classifications of
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headphones you have closed back
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headphones like this if my camera will
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focus which has a hard shell on the back
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that prevents noise leaking out into the
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world and keeps things quite private
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even without any active noise
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cancellation technology and then you've
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also got open-back headphones that look
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a little bit like this where they have a
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grill or a mesh on the back which allows
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sound to escape and also sound from the
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room to leak in to the headphone as well
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long story short I much prefer open-back
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headphones for mixing and mastering but
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there are times when closed back
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headphones are far far superior firstly
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if you're not in a private environment
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and you need to listen to what you're
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doing and there's people talking or
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there's noise you definitely want to use
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closed back headphones you won't be able
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to use open-back headphones if you're
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traveling if you're on a plane or a bus
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or any kind of noisy environment or even
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if there's people talking in your studio
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it's gonna really bother you because
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you're gonna hear absolutely everything
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however when I used to produce in a duo
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or whenever I have artists on is quite
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nice because when I put these open-back
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headphones on I'm not wearing them for
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fashion clearly I can hear what
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everyone's saying and I can also hear my
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own voice really clearly so I don't feel
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like I'm being as antisocial and locking
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myself away but in a lot of cases this
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openness and lack of privacy is going to
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be an issue another one is for recording
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which I wasn't really going to talk
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about which is that because sound leaks
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out of these headphones everyone else
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can hear what you're listening to sound
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will leak into the microphone the
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metronome will leak out so they're not
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really great for recording you can get
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away with it but it's not ideal but I
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think by far the main reason people
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choose between them is comfort and audio
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quality so firstly the open-back
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headphones are usually in almost all
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brands
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are more comfortable there's air flow
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and the heat can get in and out so they
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typically stay at a really nice
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temperature on your head no buildup of
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like sweat or heat or anything like that
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and sometimes they're even lighter than
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the clothes back versions because
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they've got a grill there's less
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material so often there can be a little
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bit less pressure on the headband again
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these are really known issues for a lot
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of people but it's worth mentioning and
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then when it comes to the sound quality
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the open-back headphones are just so
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much wider deeper more spacious now
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there are times when closed back
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headphones sound a bit better
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often the bass can sound more punchy but
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not necessarily deeper or full but with
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the open-back headphones it was a really
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interesting experience when I first
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tried this and when I listened to any
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new music it's a completely immersive
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spacious experience of sound completely
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different to anything else that I'm used
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to hearing you hear all the instruments
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separated around your head everything
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feels extraordinary 3d and for the sake
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of pure enjoyment this is what I usually
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like to listen to music on first just to
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really gauge a song and just enjoy it
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but also this quality of having a really
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wide and deep soundstage means that I
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find them excellent from mixing I find
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it much much easier to judge stereo
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width and panning decisions and also
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just overall balance with these on my
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head as opposed to a pair of closed back
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headphones and although I said the bass
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was a little bit more punchy with the
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closed back headphones or even a lot
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more punchy I find the bass in this is
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just deeper and more enjoyable and a
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fuller sound even if it's not quite as
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fun or punchy or pokey potentially
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depending on the genre of music you're
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gonna listen to and mix one might win
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over the other but I know so many
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engineers and myself included just
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prefer open-back headphones when we can
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but that does depend on being in a nice
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quiet environment and knowing that
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you're not gonna bother anyone with all
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the sound that's leaking out as for any
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recommendations for which headphones you
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should use any brands that I prefer now
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most people know that I've used bio
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dynamics for years I just find them to
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be absolutely bomb-proof and I've really
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enjoyed listening on them they always I
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can
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pads off wash them they always come up
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really clean and good the pads are
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really large really soft and it means
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that one when they're on my head I kind
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of just forgot they're there sometimes
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they feel like there's like little
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pillows on my ears which is really nice
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this is not a sponsored video but I know
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the bio dynamics are widely trusted as
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almost an industry standard in
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headphones and some people like the look
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of the mic whenever I'm wearing them in
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my tutorials I'm definitely not wearing
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them for the sake of fashion that's for
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sure I'm wearing them for the function
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of them and they sound really really
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good I also have quite small ears and
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quite flexible so having something that
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sits over my full ear really helps
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because if something presses on to my
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ear it tends to just call a lot of
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build-up and heat but other brands that
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are fantastic are audio technica I've
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used those before and I know that a lot
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of people swear by Sennheiser headphones
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typically these brands with a long
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heritage of headphone design they tend
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to not mess anything up usually their
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headphones end up being really
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comfortable really accurate and just
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sound great where it's often the newer
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or younger brands that are trying all
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sorts of crazy wacky designs typically
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they only work for a small fraction of
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people and they're not perfect for
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everybody anyway I hope I've cleared up
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those three questions I don't want to
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drag this out any longer so thank you
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very much for watching I hope that
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helped any questions at all drop them in
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the comment section down below I'll be
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trying to answer as many as possible but
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thank you very much for watching and I
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hope to see you in the next video - hope
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you have a great week bye for now
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