Originally Posted by Fdemetrio
The room in which you are mixing and mastering also matters. Pro studios are all treated acoustically.

The recording world is all going internal, yet, where you hear it changes the whole sound. Listening in your car will sound different than listening in your room, or your basement, or your garage, or in a club, a bar, a concert hall



I know but such considerations are somewhat rhetorical for home recorders. A low cut (-80) will take out a some back ground noise. Mics often have high pass filters also. Mics that we are likely to use are not going to have the sensitivity to go way out into the room and pic up reverberations. As a home recorder, If you are in a room that is so reverberant that "the room" is an issue...then you are in the wrong room.

But the issue at hand is headphones and clarity. And the point at hand is headphones...I think... I read over and over is that headphones can be real good but the size of the speakers etc, makes them inferior to listening to good monitors. Before I bought muy monitors, I went to GCenter and tested several that were down in the $400 price range and slightly above. That day in that store Yamaha HS5s were obviously clearer than the others. The reason I bought them is that I had upgraded my headphones to a pretty good quality over the ones that I had...and there was very little difference when mixing. The Yamahas are dramatically different.

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