vergesslich2
New Head-Fier
Yes, I understood it, thank you very much.[...]
I hope I conveyed the notion of complexity without losing you entirely.
It looks to me that a good consumer buying decision might be to build a headphone arsenal. To look what characteristic (that a brand goes on using) is still missing in the arsenal. Like, 600 and 650, and 880 and 1990, and 701 and 712. Plus some closed back, and some planar. I just try to think of the most popular headphones. They should be the ones that the sound engineers make the productions for, if at all. In order to use different headphones for listening, per interpret or album. Although, I still think some headphones might be fatiguing a bit. Just saying, I will probably re-start with a 'most compatible' headphone, which might be the most popular headphone anyways.
And for a producer, so, I guess (?) they need an arsenal too, because they need to find where their production sounds the worst, and later maybe what slightly perceived qualities should "cancel each other out" in the "market" (I'm trying to refer to a place in Toole's book). Although Toole does not propagate replicating faulty equipment when it comes to speakers. But that has to do with different rooms, too. So, maybe "many faulty headphones" might still be a legitimate approach. I mean, some people just do it, but I'm not sure why exactly.
I'm a bit lost here. So, mono recordings are a good way to go in general? Or maybe even mono samples for everything in 'purely artistic works'?[...] as a post process from good old mono tracks.
Concerning the recordings - since I have no idea how mixing engineers work - do they today "just" process mono recordings with convolver plugins and impulse response files from several microphone positions? I mean, I'm not wondering about their mixing work in particular. But I was always imagining that with two microphones placed near an instrument, like within one or two meters, one might record some cool "corpus" sound. Sorry, I'm lost on some sound ideas here. And I have only last year tried to record some instruments for fun.
Sorry that I couldn't bring the thread back to the driver distance to ear topic. But somehow I concluded that... well.. I might just want to buy as many different headphones and things as I can afford and have time for. It's like that for me personally. Because the possible situations to watch out for are so many.