Recording Headphones

the best tracking/pitching technique i know uses one half of one ear uncovered to get immersion in the music but nail the tuning spot on. don't think you can do that with walkman 'phones.

If you have one track recorded, you don't get much bleedover and you don't really notice any leakage. But when you have up to eight different tracks, all with that same tiny ping of the clicktrack, it makes a fairly noticable racket. I've been hand editing them out in the soundwave edit window in Cubase, but my god, that takes ages.

headphones? Or the Cubase soundwave edit window? I love that so much. I can spend hours in there, editing out breaths and things. Fuck using a pop screen or a compressor.

Also, is there a Strip Silence function in Cubase? I use that on individual audio tracks in Logic and/or Pro Tools to automatically chop out the "dead air" bits in between lines of vocals. It can save a lot of editing time.

Also, I've been told that using an alternate click track - like a lower pitched sample of a bass drum, or what have you - can reduce headphone bleed.

You don't need a "strip silence" function necessarily, you could do it with a simple noise gate. But I *hate* noise gates. Much better to get a nice clean signal in the first place.

I should try a different click track sound - that bleep is supposed to cut through anything and my god, it does.

But really, I should get some decent headphones because the ones I've got are really falling to pieces and only do stereo when they feel like it. Also they pick up random crackle and hiss from all over the place, it's like big bang radiation in my earphones, ugh.

B-b-but a lot of old compressors just sound really cool even when they aren't compressing!

martin OTM on old compressors, but god do I hate the new ones, noise gates as well.

any new recommendations for affordable headphones for home recording? mine appear to have crapped out.

no one makes headphones with a 1/4-inch plug anymore do they? i have an adapter i've been using with my four-track but it seems like just another part of the chain that can break

NA what's your budget? I bought these sennheisers the other week, really like em. have a screw-on 1/4" plug adapter - feels like a sturdier option than the ones that just snap over the 1/8" plug.

those look pretty good. something in that range is probably what i'll be working with. i've had good luck with sennheisers in the past.

i've had a pair of those for at least 5 years now, great studio cans.