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ok i help me. i need monitors!

Yes the HD280Pros will do you fine, though they actually have quite a rolled off bass response and bump at 350hz. If you keep this roll off and bump in mind they'll work fine. You don't tend to hear sub 40hz bass as much as you feel and no phones are going to actually reproduce the affects of infrasound anyway. This isn't really an issue for you unless your mixing dace music.

About the speakers that's not quite what I meant. Smaller monitors often have better transient response in the frequency range they do cover. Also you're still going to have room problems with a full range speaker (if not more). But yes personally I would wait and save and keep an eye on ebay. What exactly are you mixing?
 
RedRedBlockhead said:
Yes the HD280Pros will do you fine, though they actually have quite a rolled off bass response and bump at 350hz. If you keep this roll off and bump in mind they'll work fine. You don't tend to hear sub 40hz bass as much as you feel and no phones are going to actually reproduce the affects of infrasound anyway. This isn't really an issue for you unless your mixing dace music.

About the speakers that's not quite what I meant. Smaller monitors often have better transient response in the frequency range they do cover. Also you're still going to have room problems with a full range speaker (if not more). But yes personally I would wait and save and keep an eye on ebay. What exactly are you mixing?
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what about these headphones? http://www.amazon.com/Sony-MDR-V150-Monitor-Headphones-Reversible/dp/B000092YPR

The Sony MDR V150 (Walmart specials is what I like to call them) I have had about 3 pairs of these in the last 6 years or so. My mixes seem to come out pretty nice most of the time. But I am used to them too...maybe I should let you all hear some of my stuff....I have some songs posted on zshare. No vocals, just instrumentation. If anyone would be interested in hearing some of the music, let me know. I will make another thread. I think it may be good for me to get some feedback from you pros anyway!;)
 
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TBH I've owned a pair and I didn't like them. I think they are too low quality too do much aside from track with them. The Sony MDR-7506 on the other hand...
 
should headphones have a flat response like you want your studio monitors to have?
 
Ideally yes. It depends exactly what you want to do with them. You can't mix on phones because there is total L + R seperation but they are good for working in mono and for checking mixes work with phones.
It's good to have a cheap pair of phones lieing around to test mixes and as I said you don't need especially high quality phones to lay down the tracks.
Unless produce a lot in mono, or are creating audio for a situation where soundstaging doesn't matter all that much (I produce radio content and for most content no one gives a damn) expensive headphones should be a secondary consideration. I find mind very useful for tweaking mono files late at night.
 
RedRedBlockhead said:
Ideally yes. It depends exactly what you want to do with them. You can't mix on phones because there is total L + R seperation but they are good for working in mono and for checking mixes work with phones.
It's good to have a cheap pair of phones lieing around to test mixes and as I said you don't need especially high quality phones to lay down the tracks.
Unless produce a lot in mono, or are creating audio for a situation where soundstaging doesn't matter all that much (I produce radio content and for most content no one gives a damn) expensive headphones should be a secondary consideration. I find mind very useful for tweaking mono files late at night.
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don't really understand what you mean by total L R seperation, but I'll read through it a couple more times and then maybe I'll get the gist of it. thanks
 
jhcodafa said:
thanks for this, i actually just bought a pair of headphones, not as good as the ones you listed but
the Sennheiser HD280Pro, was able to get them for about $73 (about $30 off the original price)

so i guess im better off waiting till i can afford the rp8, since they will handle the bass the best?
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they dont handle bass the best but reproduce it down all the way about 45hz i think it is. you should hang off and do more research and learn more about monitors. especially sicne you considered a sony subwoffer as your studio sub.
you dont need a sub with the rp8s if your room is large enough and your monitors get turned up enough to get the full freq range out of them youll here the bass. but if you have a smaller room and want to hear the bass your not gonna hear the bass unless you turn them up and at that point you will have a hard time listening cuz it will be to loud.
i only use my sub to check whats going on in the low end i also dont have a default setting either i usally change the db level to them to see what it would sound like if someone took my cd and put it in there car with this much level of bass on there system what it woud sound like.

monitor have to be up a certain level to get the full freq out of them. there not made to be on low while mixing and there not made to be full blast when mixing either.

hd280 are great headphones and they lastttttt i use them to dj.
 
I am using these monitors to mix my personal music (bands music) that we are making.

Mellow rock/rock and some progressive (like mars volta)
and for fun some electronic sounds(think postal service or some of radioheads stuff)

I do a lot of work at night, so I'm thinking the rp8s might be too loud (i dont want to disturb people at night)

I'll save some money too by getting the rp6s
 
Total L + R separation means that the left and the right channel reach only their corresponding ear. Whereas with speakers sound from left reaches right etc.
 
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