Angelbelow
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I also really want to try the RS1is. But I'm going to go with an orthodynamic in the Hifiman HE500s. I was able to demo my friends and thought they were great for metal.
Well, I just bought my very first pair of cans (Sennheiser HD-598 for $150 shipped brand new, was on sale on Amazon for a few hours and everyone on RFD were raving about these). Are these at least decent for metal? Doesn't have to be the best, just decent. I listen to everything - death, black, folk, thrash - you name it. Been listening to the new Falkenbach and Caladan Brood non-stop lately.
I know that they're very bass light but it should be good enough for metal right? My IEM's are Monster Miles Davis (the older ones), got em for free and they're pretty good. The bass is just too much for most metal though, it sounds too muffled and the soundstage is tiny. I also listen to a lot of drum n bass, the Miles Davis are PERFECT for DnB but not so much for metal.
It's not often that I like "symphonic" metal but this is pretty interesting.
Shade Empire
It all comes down to personal preference. We're not going to be able to tell you if you'll like them or not, but based on what I know about the HD598s I think I would like them for metal personally. Best thing you can do now is wait and see for yourself.
It's not often that I like "symphonic" metal but this is pretty interesting.
Shade Empire
Didn't like the drumming. It's something I've been noticing more and more lately, and something just about every metal band I've heard does from time to time. It's when the drummer just alternates between the bass and sharp drums as fast as he can, it just ruins the flow in the music for me. It was very noticeable when the drums first kicked in on the first track. It's this kind of drumming that ruined both Come Clarity and A Sense of Purpose from In Flames. Now I love In Flames, and have since I was thirteen, but I really hate it when they ruin their songs with drumming like that. Specific examples are the verses on Take This Life and Leeches from Come Clarity, and the chorus on I'm the Highway from A Sense of Purpose. This is so sad, because I love the chorus on both Take This Life and Leeches, and the verses on I'm the Highway are just awesome. Still, I just about never listen to any of them, because the bad parts are so bad that I can't really enjoy the good parts.
Those are called Blast Beats. The basic drumming for extreme metal?
Then extreme metal isn't for me. I absolutely detest that kind of drumming.
I kinda think that most listeners kind of block it out anyway. It moves the song along but just like a car motor you just don't hear it after a while. Same as dance music, at fist listen the drums are repetitive to the highest degree then after a while you don't hear em. That's my take anyway.
It's very lazy drumming, isn't it? I guess it's a go-to solution when the drummer can't think of something better or is having trouble making two parts of a song fit together.
The biggest problem I have with Blast Beats isn't the drumming itself, but how it affects the other instruments and the song as a whole. It feels like the guitars really can't follow it. I'm a sucker for melodic metal like In Flames, but whenever the drummer uses Blast Beats there is no melody, and I'm guessing it's because it doesn't provide a proper rythm for the guitars to follow. So whenever the Blast Beats come on, the most enjoyable part of the music (for me, anyways) just disappears. The In Flames songs I listed previously are perfect examples of this, in my opintion. I'm the Highway especially, such great and engaging guitar play during the verses, but all of that just dies during the chorus. It really annoys me!
Blast beats ftw!
Lasergun sweeeeps!!!
Origin never fails to entertain me