Headphones for Post

tankgirl

tankgirl

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Okay, I had no idea where to post this! I feel like this forum is closest to general post info.

I need to get a pair of headphones last minute... well, last second! Is there anything that Best Buy sells that can get me through this one project? I need something that is noise canceling. I'm usually in an edit suite and this time I'm going to be on location so this is something I haven't needed before.

Thanks for any help you guys can give me!
 
tankgirl said:
Okay, I had no idea where to post this! I feel like this forum is closest to general post info.

I need to get a pair of headphones last minute... well, last second! Is there anything that Best Buy sells that can get me through this one project? I need something that is noise canceling. I'm usually in an edit suite and this time I'm going to be on location so this is something I haven't needed before.

Thanks for any help you guys can give me!
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Sony MDR7506 are the industry standard, though not likely to be found at Best Buy. But you can order them from almost any professional audio vendor and get them overnight by Fedex. They run about $100. You DO NOT want noise cancelling 'cans. They introduce extreme colouration and are the last thing you want to use for monitoring a take. For post, it is very difficult to mix properly on phones at best and the colouration introduced by the noise cancelling will make it completely impossible to get a good mix that will tanslate properly to speakers during broadcast or performance.
 
Thanks guys for the info. I had no idea that noise canceling headphones could mess with coloration, but it does make sense.

I ended up getting a pair of sennheisers from the local Guitar Center. I've used the Sonys before, but they didn't have any and I was desperate. Client called me like 6 hours before I needed to leave for the gig.

I'm in PA and there isn't much in the way of specialty shops. I did book mark Sam Ash!

Thanks again for the info!
 
WorldPz said:
I like my Headphones by Dre.
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Another case of phones designed with extreme colouration in order to make music sound good. For monitoring purposes you don't want phones that sound good, you want phones that are ACCURATE. If what you've really got in the mix is a pig's ear, your phones shouldn't make it feel like a silk purse. Your monitors shouldn't add their own emphasis curves in an effort to polish commercial t**ds.
 
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