Angerwing said:
Bribase said:
Angerwing said:
ToonLink said:
The "Beats by Dre" line is REALLY good for mixing and DJing. Best sound quality I've heard so far.
[link]http://www.amazon.com/Beats-Studio-Dr-Dre-Noise-Canceling/dp/B001DD55OE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1307205695&sr=8-1[/link]
That's the pair I have. Really, incredible sound. Changed the way I listen to music :S
Yeah right, Noise cancelling headphones for mixing and Djing. What a stupid thing to write.
If you read what I posted, I never said I used it for mixing or DJing. I use it to listen to music, and for gaming. What a stupid thing to write? Get over yourself.
Sorry Angerwing, you shouldn't have been included in the quote. It should have been directed at Toonlink. As for me needing to get over myself allow me to qualify what I wrote and why noise cancelling is probably the most useless thing to include in the design of headphones for studio or DJ use.
Noise cancelling works by including a microphone built in to the headphones themselves. The microphone picks up the external noise and plays it back 180 degrees out of phase for the listener, this "neutralises" the outside noise and makes the music you are playing clearer. There are obvious drawbacks to sound quality for one here, by introducing extra sounds that your headphone drivers need to produce it affects your headphone's ability to reproduce the music that you actually want.
Now imagine that you are trying to mix a DJ set with this pair of noise cancelling headphones. What you are trying to do is cue up the next record with one headphone while listening for the right place to drop it into the mix. One ear is listening to the mix overall and one is trying to keep track of what you are cueing. But on noise cancelling heaphones the mics are picking up the sounds from the speakers and making what you are trying to monitor impossible to hear properly.
Now try to use these in a studio when you are trying to lay down a vocal or record an instrument. What you need to rely on when you are trying to mix a track properly is that what you hear coming off of the master outputs is as unadulterated as possible and no part of the live instrument or voice is mixing with what is coming out of the mixing desk. As I'm sure you understand that having mics that play the outside noise back into your ears is a counterintuitive thing to have while trying to do this.
I know it was a little rude of me to call someone's post stupid but I hope you understand now quite why using noise cancelling in a pair of "studio" headphones is ridiculous. Theres a reason why the headphones people use in a studio are just glorified ear protectors why high end headphone drivers in them, they work better than noise cancelling ever will.