How Bedroom Producers Can Improve Their Mix Quality
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Published 2023-10-16
If you're stuck producing and mixing music in headphones, you're probably killing your mix!
But have no fear–in this video Zack is going to show you the EXACT steps to fix the problems your headphones cause during the mixdown process.
Follow along as we will be covering "how to choose the best pair of headphones," "how to mix low end in headphones," "how to reference in headphones," and "how to get the proper mixdown balance using headphones"
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⏱️⏱️VIDEO CHAPTERS⏱️⏱️
0:00 Why Headphones Are Killing Your Mix
0:41 The Proof That You CAN Mix In Headphones
1:45 Finding The BEST Headphones For Your Situation
2:50 Your Headphones LIE To You (SoundID Reference)
4:41 Mixing Low End Kick and Bass In Headphones
6:58 How To Get The Proper Mix Balance Using Headphones
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All Comments (21)
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🤯Stuck with your music career? Need PERSONALIZED help and development? Apply to our program… www.cosmicacademy.com/
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2:37 Open-back headphones DO NOT block outside noise at all. They are, however, generally considered better for mixing and mastering.
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True, many people don’t listen to their music on a 400$ pair of headphones or in a acoustically treated room, but taking those measures (producers) often allow for the continuity of high quality sound on all devices. You can mix for AirPods, but then crank your music in a venue and hear all the inconsistencies, pop, fizzes, or muddled sounds.
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The right pair helped me in better hearing what's going on. Went from the DT770 Pro (80ohm) to a Focal Clear MG Pro, and that was a difference between day and night. Another important thing is to get to know your headphones very well, and to keep use reference tracks while you mix to notice anything strange.
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Great stuff as always. Much love zack!!
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I saw that clearly and you said all the right words in this video, thank you!
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My heart sunk after reading that title 😂
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Wow super good content , thank you! I only use headphones and I run into this issue basically everytime.
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hope the tips in the video can help everyone get the most out of their headphones!!! ❤👊
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Cant wait to start the january session and learn more from you guys!
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Top video Zack. One of the very first pieces of advice I got after a track feedback a couple of years ago. Get Sound ID reference. One of the best investments I ever made. The 2nd piece of advice was..........you guessed it, reference reference reference, and the reference more 😂
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Great video Zack, thanks!! Also, what's the name of that song? You killed it!!
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this is a very underrated channel !
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Nowadays people consume music mostly of the time on their AirPods or headphones. Make sense mix music with headphones in this era. Adapt the product to the actual habits of the listeners. We don’t need no more huge expensive studios. If you want make sure about your final result buy those virtual studios plug-ins like Realphones, match the low end of your song against the reference and that’s it.
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Great video, but I have a question, if I dont have a good limiter, would it be ok to just turn the reference down in volume instead of raising my mix with a cheap and bad limiter?
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Sooo good guys ❤
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GOLD!!!
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GOLD!!!!
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Andrew Schepps mixes with Sony MDR-7506's and Audien produced and mixed Wayfarer with Sennheiser HD 600's. That's all I needed to hear to know you can mix and master with headphones. My opinion is it's optimal do use speakers in a well treated room with Sonarworks and headphones of course.
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Biggest obstacle for me using headphones for mixing and mastering is that I'm not able to hear stereo image properly with headphones. I quess you can develop some sense of stereo image using headphones but that propably requires huge amount of cross referencing between speakers and headphones to develop that skill. In headphones your ear receives only information from that same side channel and with speakers you will always hear both channels with both ears. You can't hear that accoustic summing between channels using headphones.
