Eugguy
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Guys, this is absolutely perfect! Hollow, soft, nice! I'm going back to my original pads now. Modded.
Thera-Band Exercise Tubing
GENIUS.
Guys, this is absolutely perfect! Hollow, soft, nice! I'm going back to my original pads now. Modded.
Thera-Band Exercise Tubing
looks better then the neoprene I used... mind cutting me 2 pieces from your roll (black if possible)? Can paypal you the shipping and to cover the material. I love the Beyer pads but the sound of the stock were a little better if they weren't so uncomfortable would be perfect. I could cut exactly to length here.
So after some persuation-talks I got permission to cut it up in the lengths I needed.
I thought I should confirm that this Latex tube modification is working very well for me. At the time I posted the pics, I hadn't used the mod for more than 30 minutes or so. Now, a week later, I have done mixing work for many many hours like this, and the mod is still good. I don't find the sound to have changed much compared to stock, though it feels a little less loud. But my ears are not sore anymore and that's a huge plus. The pads do feel ever so slightly harder, but it's not a problem for me.
Another thing I've been using when mixing with my modded 7520 is an EQ correction preset in my DAW. @jsblack got me started by letting me use his personal 7520 correction filter for the Sonarworks headphone plugin. The Sonarworks filter doesn't sound useable to me, unfortunately - it's way to weird sounding compared to my mixing monitors and mixing environment. I know, I should really compare with a custom filter made specifically for my pair of 7520's, but the difference with jsblack's filter is so big, that I don't think it will change my view on this. The filter sounds like a little AM radio to me and just too strange. Maybe I just can't cope with "flat".
Instead, I created a slightly altered and less pronounced version of the Sonarworks measurement and created a preset in my preferred equaliser in my DAW. That correction and EQ plugin sounds much better to me and much closer to several of the monitoring systems I've been comparing with. When I bypass my new EQ preset in the DAW, it sounds quite poor, which both makes me glad but also a little sad. Sad, because I didn't expect the stock sound of the 7520 to be so far off, compared to what I like now. But progress is good and this has opened my eyes (ears) for always looking for improvement and optimisation.
The frequency areas where my new personal EQ correction makes a noticeable difference is in the 100 Hz area (slightly less boomy) and especially in the 8 KHz area where sibilance and brittleness reside (vocals, hihat, cymbals). Both areas are taken down in amplitude but with very different filter characteristics. The 8 KHz cut is very narrow and also includes a neighbouring lift at 5 KHZ. I have done one real multitrack mix using this correction filter and it has turned out fine to my ears. I mix mainly on my monitors, but also use my 7520 headphones maybe 30% of the time. Of course I bypass this filter when listening on the monitors
I've been thinking of posting two sound samples for you 7520 owners to listen to. One without and one with the correction filter. It would be interesting to see if you also hear a difference and if it's an improvement to you.
Guys, this is absolutely perfect! Hollow, soft, nice! I'm going back to my original pads now. Modded.
Thera-Band Exercise Tubing
Guys, this is absolutely perfect! Hollow, soft, nice! I'm going back to my original pads now. Modded.
Thera-Band Exercise Tubing
Tubing arrived today, and I agree; this is perfect if you want to stick with the original pads but either found them too shallow to begin with, or they have worn flat.
Glad I kept my first set of pads that had worn flat instead of just throwing them out after replacing them.
I went with the red tubing, cut it to approximately 24cm lengths and it's a great fit. Can't even tell it's in there when you're wearing them.
It seems that you can order this stuff in short lengths inexpensively off eBay. I bought 1m just to have extra in case I needed it, but since 24cm is about the right size, you should only need to order 50cm.
Though I know that some people might prefer black aesthetically, that's supposed to be stronger stuff and it looked like the wall was thicker - so it's probably not the best choice for comfort.
I've ordered some yellow tubing to try as well, as it's supposed to be a little thinner and might be a bit closer to the 7520 with new pads. My only concern was that it might be too thin, and collapse when worn. I'll update this post when it arrives some time next week.
In what way does this affect the sound?