The Watering Hole

I bought a pair of "mastering" headphones yesterday. They are open back with a flat (ish) frequency curve. on first use for mixing they sound really odd, no thumping bass or overly bright highs, just flat. However, by listening to reference tracks of albums that I like the ears soon become used to how a mix is supposed to sound flat. My first attempts at mixing with these headphones are encouraging especially when toggling back and forth to the reference track every now and then to ensure similarity in frequency response.  I will play with these for a couple of days and then post a sample mix to see if anyone can tell the difference to my usual overly bass heavy mixes.  Also makes it easier to tame the highs to by removing the brittleness that my guitar tracks suffer from when mixing on hifi headphones. I will report back in a couple of days with examples

Brand?  Model?   :)

CraigBert — Jan 13, 2016Brand?  Model?   :)

A small UK company called StudioSpares - M2000 mastering headphones, and quite cheap too, only £50 ($72)

http://www.studiospares.co.uk

Mixing monitoring philosophy will always hold. "Learn what your system sounds like, and you can mix on it." Whether you are using $5 home stereo speakers or cheap headphones, the philosophy is the same. People mixed thousands of amazing albums on Yamaha NS10s for decades, and they've got a big +5dB between 900-2k...

AKG 240s, if I do say so myself. I think bang for the buck ends at $100 cans, myself. Above that, the "better" sound increases, but very little. Got to pay attention to the ohm # as well. Makes a huge difference.

I was going to say the same, AKG 240 is the gold standard for this, they're also cheaper... But calling these professional mastering headphones... that's advertising genius.