![]() It’s a bit more of a complex process than that, but that’s the general idea. Essentially, some of the left channel is fed to the right channel, and vice versa. Thanks to recent advancements in technology, it’s now possible to replicate acoustic crosstalk while listening to audio through headphones. Now I’m going to show you how you can make the most of your headphones and overcome some of their flaws. I think that if you’re working in an untreated space, you’ll see far better and more consistent mixing results if you rely on headphones because they take the room out of the equation. You may not want to spend that kind of money, or if you produce music in your bedroom, you may not want to hang acoustic treatment all over your walls.įor this reason, I’m going to make the bold claim that it’s often better to mix and master your music using a pair of headphones, as opposed to studio monitors. Unfortunately, treating a room properly, and getting it to a point that’s functional can cost thousands of dollars. Within your room, your mix is going to sound balanced, but when you play your mix through another playback system in a different space, it’s probably going to be lacking a ton of low-end, especially if you’re unaware of how your room is coloring your mix.Īcoustic treatment will help you achieve a flat frequency response at your listening position, which will minimize the deviation between how you perceive mixes on your system versus how other people perceive mixes on their systems. Your mix might sound nice and balanced within the space you’re in, but since the signal you’re hearing is colored so heavily by your room, it’s probably not going to translate very well to other playback systems.įor example, if a room node is creating a 12 dB bass boost at your listening position, you’re probably going to set the level of your bass quieter than you should to accommodate what you’re hearing. ![]() When you’re mixing with a pair of studio monitors your room will drastically affect your ability to make informed mixing decisions.Īcoustic problems like first reflections, secondary reflections, flutter echo, and room nodes can drastically throw off your perception of a mix. There are some other factors you need to take into consideration as well. ![]() Mixing music using headphones isn’t necessarily worse than mixing with studio monitors. The result of this is a really poorly defined stereo image that sounds like individual sounds are laid out along a line running directly through the centre of your head, as opposed to spread out in front of you, in the way that they are when listening to music using a pair of studio monitors. ![]() Your brain ends up relying entirely on the level differences between the left and right channel of an audio file to make sense of the stereo image. When listening to music using a pair of headphones, this crosstalk doesn’t take place-you’re left ear hears the signal produced by the left speaker in your headphones and your right ear hears the sound produced by the right speaker. ![]() So, how does mixing with headphones compare to mixing with studio monitors? Well, when listening to music using a pair of studio monitors, the sound produced by your left speaker can be heard by your left and right ear, and the sound produced by your right speaker can also be heard by both ears-this phenomenon is known as acoustic crosstalk and it helps your brain correctly perceive stereo images. ![]()
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