HEADPHONES vs. MONITORS

[MORFEEUS]

I would like to know which is better.....Headphones in a controlled environment....or Monitors in a room or control room that is not acoustically correct......which is truly better for mixing?!?!?!?!?!?!

 

[NobleWordz]

Monitors every day all day. Its good to check your mix on HP though, just to get another perspective.

PS: I don't think this goes in troubleshooting.

~NW~

 

[dfine]

use headphones and monitors, mp3 players, clock radios, car stereos anything to hear how a mix woluld sound to anyone anywhere

 

[StressWon]

use headphones and monitors, mp3 players, clock radios, car stereos anything to hear how a mix woluld sound to anyone anywhere

yeah. I start with the monitors, then to monitor phones, then stereo phones, then car stereo, etc

 

[Relic]

Monitors, and not to be rude but didnt we have a long drawn out thread on this like a couple of months ago?

Always monitors, but of course youll want to run it thru everything to hear how it sounds, for mixing purposes monitors...

 

[Hi-Lo]

just be sure you get monitors and not speakers at best buy or something like that...you need something that barely colors the sounds

 

[DJ Xsinna]

Realistically, you need both. Monitors for most obvious reasons but headphones when you are doing and checking for intricate nuances, edits and overall effects your drums have on your ears. If your snares (for example) are smackin' to the point where your ears feel like there's a stick being poked in your ears, then you've mixed it correctly. Listen to the Chronic 2001 through headphones and you'll hear and feel exactly what I'm talkin' about. Now your Monitors (and I'm just talking about the drums only here...) are good so you can feel how much air is being pushed out by the woofers and see how they react on your kicks. If you've got some monitors with colored woofers like KRK Rockits, then you can better see what the woofers are doing and hear how your kicks sound and shape your mixes accordingly.

-X

 

[scandal]

Ok this is how I see it, Monitors are the easiest to mix on, but as long as u learn ur headphones or even speakers they can be just as affective, they just require a steep learning curve and u have to be able to tell what frequencies your speakers or head phones are boosting and vice versa. Of course higher quality headphones or speakers will shorten up the learning curve a little its all about just knowing your speakers or headphones and even monitors and how they translate into other systems.

 

[Fury]

i like mixing wit moniters better and i listen thru headphones to see if theres any screws i need to tighten up

 

[MORFEEUS]

i feel what everyone is saying.....but this is the REAL question.....are you really getting a true mix if you are mixing with monitors if your control room or environment is not ACOUSTICALLY correct......with headphones .... it doesnt seem like you would have that problem.

 

[thedreampolice]

but headphones provide a very inaccurate mix environment, thats why they are only used for tracking and correcting problems.