Headphone Mixing
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Join us for a discussion on microphone techniques with some of today’s most successful engineers. Our panel explores best practices for recording and mixing at home and in the studio.
0:00 - Introduction
5:41 - Favorite Microphones
13:56 - Different Mics for Different Voices
24:09 - Engineering and Knowing the Artist
29:51 - Top Budget Microphones
36:07 - Good Audio is Very Important
39:39 - Headphone Choices
47:42 - Audio Experiments
53:16 - What Garners Trust from a Brand
59:02 - Setting Your Car Speaker
1:01:23 - Final Thoughts
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In studio recording sessions and live music productions, one of the most pervasive personal problems experienced by performers and sound engineers alike is the need for “more this” and “less that” in the monitor/headphone/cue mixes. Seemingly unending requests such as, “Turn me up in my headphones!” or “LESS cowbell, not more!” can yield a crop full of frustration, wasted time, and bad vibes. What’s the solution? One particularly helpful and clever approach is to empower the performer with the ability to make their own mixes, allowing each