Headphones or Studio Monitors?

mging1141 · August 31, 2019, 5:26pm

When you have the chance to purchase studio grade monitors or studio grade headphones, which is preferred?

What are the pros and cons?

Are there certain EDM producers who exclusively use headphones or monitors?

_ronzlo · August 31, 2019, 5:36pm

Monitors for sure. The artificial separation and lack of depth in headphones can be misleading. Some folks monitor with headphones but it’s not the norm.

mging1141 · August 31, 2019, 5:49pm

What would you recommend for monitors?

mging1141 · August 31, 2019, 5:50pm

Price not being any object of concern

lemonhaze · August 31, 2019, 6:01pm

I’ve heard an opinion that if you’re doing something very textured and sophisticated in timbres (for example, noise music), you will never have the level of detail headphones give you with monitors of the same class. Can someone actually experienced in all this stuff confirm?

_ronzlo · August 31, 2019, 6:11pm

Genelec or JBL maybe… I’ve had the same monitors for 15+ years though so maybe someone else can suggest some.

cyclopian · August 31, 2019, 6:16pm

2x
https://vintageking.com/quested-hm415-active

mging1141 · August 31, 2019, 6:29pm

Thank God! free shipping

I’m guessing no one here has had pleasure of trying out this speaker, but I’m leaning more towards home studios.

Got any monitor choices for that?

cyclopian · August 31, 2019, 6:44pm

I have a pair of APS Klasik at home, really really love them and they are affordable. If you have the budget for it the APS Aeon 2’s are really great as well (or the trinity’s if your room is big enough)

http://www.aps-company.com/

mging1141 · August 31, 2019, 7:05pm

Thanks looks like a great place to start

Do you also mix with a sub woofer or is that taboo?

Hibbie · September 1, 2019, 6:58am

I am not a producer but have these Neumann KH120 and they sound amazing:

I use them with a Roland Quad interface:
https://www.roland.com/uk/products/quad-capture/

But admittedly i haven’t really tried any others except some these Genelecs 8040B that i use for my turntables:

These Genelecs ones go to them lower Frequencies that you need.

If i had the money then i would of gone for the Genelecs 8050

Cuz they reach even lower freq than the 8040s and you would deff be covered with the frequency range. They must be massive tho :lol_

Again if i had the money i would of gone for these Neumanns KH310 that are slightly lower then the Genelec 8050:

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