New plugin makes headphones sound like near field monitors.

Chang · Post by **Chang** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 6:24 pm

This look s really interesting for all those who have to use headphones all the time for late night mixing. A plugin that can stop the pain of mixing on headphones then wake up next day to find out it all sounds like hell on monitors.

http://www.kvraudio.com/news/10853.html

liveISlife · Post by **liveISlife** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 6:41 pm

Looks interesting. Getting demo now.

Chang · Post by **Chang** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 7:12 pm

liveISlife wrote:Looks interesting. Getting demo now.

Me to I'm downloading now to test. This + a really good pair of headphones might be incredible for mixing.

Nick the Zombie · Post by **Nick the Zombie** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 8:03 pm

Wow, this is potentially very useful. Thanks for the head's up!

Chang · Post by **Chang** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 8:51 pm

Well, i tried the demo. it does exactly what it says it does. Very strange in a good way though, trick my brain. It really does sound like monitors are in front of you and totally not overexaggeration of headphones freq bass, to much stereo so on. It was very weird at first as for a second I thought I had my monitors on while I was dialing in differnt settings on this plug forgetting the headphones were even on my head for a moment. Very convincing to me. A must own for anyone living and mixing in an apartment that programs late at night and wants to wake up and have what they did on headphones translate to real world speakers n monitors the next morning.

Must run some more experiment.

tw1nstates · Post by **tw1nstates** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 9:01 pm

Hmm,
Cool enough. Am gonna get myself a test of that also I think

abort · Post by **abort** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 9:03 pm

Theirs got to be a way to create this plug with the many tools in ableton. Is their not?

a little phasing a little center field, or something.?

creepjoint · Post by **creepjoint** » Sun Feb 01, 2009 2:17 pm

This performs a similar function.

http://refinedaudiometrics.com/products-hdphx.shtml

It takes advantage of the Haas Effect to provide a delayed and attenuated cross-channel mix in each ear to present the sound that would be heard with a stereo speaker system with speakers placed at +/-30 degrees azimuth from front-center.

The plug-in has no user interface. It simply plugs into your stereo audio output channel, and provides the same high-quality 64-bit computing that our other plug-ins feature.

When listening with HDPHX you will no longer get that ear-pounding, head-shaking, strong stereo separation that is so common. Modern recordings are intended mostly for speaker listening. But when listening through stereo headphones you don't normally get the kind of lef-right cross mixing that happens in a room with speaker playback.

Our HDPHX preserves the good stereo separation without producing the fatigue that accompanies long listening sessions with artificially high stereo separation.

leedsquietman · Post by **leedsquietman** » Sun Feb 01, 2009 3:45 pm

+1 there was a whole section dedicated to mixing on headphones and plugins that emulated monitors in Sound On Sound from Jan 2007

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jan07/a ... phones.htm

Kilroy · Post by **Kilroy** » Sun Feb 01, 2009 10:24 pm

To me it just seems to move extremely-panned tracks a lot more toward the center, and in the process misrepresents my mix.

K.