Can someone recommend me good open-back headphones? Not expensive, just something suitable for playing guitar at around 2 a.m. in an apartment building.
What headphones do you recommend?
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Not expensive and just for playing at 2 a.m. can be anything you want on Amazon.
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Audio technica m40 balanced closed back plus or minus$100
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Sony MDR-7506
Basically a studio industry standard if there ever was one.
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Open back I would go with Senheiser if I wouldn't have already the Beyerdynamic (but they are not cheap)
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I'd recommend Grado SR60. It's not the most comfortable, but I had a good experience in the past
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Sennheisser HD-6XX, but Massdrop has been acquired and unclear if new owner will sell them.
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coming from more expensive headphones, our keyboarder 'converted' me to the Audio-Technica ATH M50X, which sounds great and so far has done the best job (for me) to create tones and mixes that translate (really) well to other systems.
they're closed back though -
The m50x are a little bit boomy for monitoring guitars is why i prefer the m40
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The m50x are a little bit boomy for monitoring guitars is why i prefer the m40
guitars can and often do generate quite a bit of low end. this is often even made worse by 'bad' pickup setups - as in: pickup too close to the bass strings.
the global High Pass filter in the OUTPUT section is very helpful here.
I found the M50s to be quite accurate in the bass region -
I recommend closed back if you sometime use pitch shift / transpose,
to avoid "strange sound" from the guitar itself together with the headphone sound ....
Cheers !
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Thanks for all the tips, I’ll think about it and compare a few options. I tend to prefer open-back headphones because I’ve read they are less fatiguing for the ears and because they sound more spacious. But I guess the main factor for ear fatigue is really the listening volume?
The 'Space' parameter on the PROFILER's Headphone Output is very pleasant and was designed to address ear fatigue when using headphones.
"SpaceThe “Space” parameter adds a small room simulation to the master signal. This makes listening through headphones far more enjoyable.
A brief explanation: whenever you listen to a sound coming from loudspeakers, you are also hearing the reflections from the floor, the walls and objects around you. Even when you listen to a mono signal, these additional reflections will still result in a stereo image once they reach your ears.
There is only one common situation where no natural reflections happen, and that is when you listen through headphones; as your ears are, biologically speaking, not suited to this, it can quickly lead to listener fatigue. This effect is called “in-the-head localization” and becomes particularly noticeable when you listen to a mono signal.
By using the Space effect, you can add virtual reflections, to create a sense of room and natural space. A mono signal will be converted to a subtle stereo image, which should be far more pleasing to your ears. Even though this effect is designed for headphones, you may also find it appropriate for listening through regular speakers, or for recording. By selecting the option “Space>HeadphOnly”, you can select whether it is applied to the HEADPHONE output only, or to the MAIN OUTPUT as well."
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I recommend closed back if you sometime use pitch shift / transpose,
to avoid "strange sound" from the guitar itself together with the headphone sound ....
You've unlocked the easter egg for an extra effect: ring chorus modulator.
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i have the same pair of headphones, and yes, as all Beyerdynamics they bump the bass and the high frequency's, not as much as the older ones, but still "hi-fi".
nice at low volumes. a solution could be to put something like the "cut the mix" eq in your profiles and mix/blend it in to taste.
bypass and lock it when your using a cabinet
