Mastering with Headphones | Are You Listening? Season 3, Episode 1

[@MozwGamer]

One of the few guys and plugin companies that knows that not everyone has a probability of ever owning a well equiped thousands of dollars mastering studios.

[@emiel333]

I couldn’t agree more! They have great knowledge and are a great contribution to the music production community.

[@KarasamaBeats]

Indeed fam ! Couldn’t agree more

[@dewil7313]

I would up that to tens or hundreds of thousands easily ;) I Trust my DT 770 pros myself. This series is good and the best part is ofc the cat on synthesizer in space =D

[@conz_tee]

Love the fact that Jonathan has an Ozone drink on his desk - magic potion for audio engineers !!! xD

[@cameronallen2174]

Thank you Rob and iZotope for this series, it has taught me so much. Would love to see a video on using saturation in mastering specifically with Ozone 9!

[@iZotopeOfficial]

Hey Cameron, we just released an episode today on Excitation in Mastering, check it out: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iKurhWePaNp9oKs

[@miketemplar]

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[@aramissilvereke]

I was just listening to some previous episodes and then suddenly a newborn one appeard, cool!

[@suedelacy]

Sameeeeee

[@samspritzer1643]

Those 18 minutes felt like 5! Really good stuff!

[@TWDsje]

The quality of that intro music certainly has me sold.

[@HiiImChris]

ahhh i love people who take a professional approach to these topics. it's sick and all hearing from such a variety of people but hearing somebody who has a more scientific understanding of these things can be incredibly helpful and insightful. thx my dude

[@TheShpmusic]

I heavily rely on my headphones for mixing. The sound is more closer to me. I will reference back out onto the monitor's but it's a relationship I build over the time with my Daw Interface. Turning the interface volume control precisely while cutting and boosting let's you know the sweet spot of the sound you're working on...Headphones Rock...💥💥💯

[@ArmorKingEmir]

i dont care

[@warloshernandez]

@@ArmorKingEmir I dont care that you dont care

[@noodlezeep5159]

That shirt is just fire 🤣

[@yitzybits]

WOOHOO! Big thanks to Jonathan & the whole team for continuing this excellent series. It is rich, clarifying & well-needed.

[@kingech_B15]

Ive been learning from Jonathan Wyner since 2015. Thanks bro

[@migueljohnson432]

Many, many thanks. Is much appreciated and for sure to be recommended 👍

[@jamiejmusic8365]

Season 3! Long awaited, thank you izotope!

[@jeremyjohnson7676]

I had the honor 15 years ago to meet no one less than the LEGEND Quincy Jones in person. One of the topics I asked him about was exactly the one in this video. What he said was logical and insightful at the same time. The short version of his answer: 1. listen to your song on the Yamaha NS-10M, if it sounds really good on them, 90% of the time it will sound good anywhere. 2. relax a few days, so that your ears calm down. Then listen to your song again on the NS10M. Make corrections if necessary. Listen to it best together with others! 3. when you think everything fits, listen to your song on two different headphones. A professional studio headphone and a consumer headphone. 4. if everything fits, listen to your song in the car. Then go to a friend's house and listen to the song on his good hi-fi system. Turn it up and listen carefully. Do this with different friends who have different hi-fi systems! 5. try to listen to your song very loud in a club. If you know a club owner, ask him if you can go to the club during the week to listen to your song. In a club, the acoustics are usually miserable, but if your song is mixed well, there should still be nothing too overly booming and clanging. And the most important: Trust your EARS!

[@moorland-pictures]

Oh yes, that's so true. You don't always use headphones by choice. Whether it's an apartment or a house, if you have small children who need to sleep or thin walls to the neighbors, you have to rely on this alternative for home recording.

[@agondistortion]

The real reason why people are suspicious about mixing ore mastering on headphones is because they still mix ore master on speakers occasionally trying to do the same thing on headphones , you have to live with headphones and occasionally check through speakers so you understand the difference after a while you will get use to and never want to go back .

[@thlgnd]

Are you saying headphones are than speakers?

[@palebluedotstudios]

Great topic! I believe mastering on headphones is increasing in popularity these days. Thanks!

[@zeepster]

This is all great information. And very clearly explained. Thank you.

[@blaablaa22]

Great episode, as always. About the audio interface part, I'd add: if you are even half serious about mixing and mastering with headphones, do consider buying an audio interface with two outputs for headphones. This way you can super conveniently have a reference pair there, which you can listen the mix/master, kinda giving yourself another opinion as well as an ear cleanser. Oh and of course: get that reference pair of headphones anyway. :)

[@cjmllvv]

Could a reference pair be a consumer device?

[@igorbeuk6298]

Finally truth, I have been on other YT channels and eder Pros don't want to open up or they , majority of them don't know it's just that simple

[@apaitiadrivationo5628]

Thank for sharing Mr Jonathan my prayers is that God will give you a double portion of knowledge and skill stay safe and stay blessed from Fiji 🇫🇯🙏👍♥️

[@joshsmith7812]

Yes! :-)

[@cvsradio1]

Great info for the industry. Thanks💯📻🎧

[@alpharhythmofficial]

Very interesting topic, and glad that the lowend and imaging issues, when mixing with good headphones, was adressed.

[@LanievanderWalt]

Thank you Prof Wyner !

[@johnnyvegas2015]

Great to see you back with the series ...cheers.

[@baselinesweb]

Jonathan, I love your videos, thank you for taking the time to make things very clear. You always say something that makes me consider and change my process for the better. As well, the tone of your voice is perfect for holding attention while not annoying. Cheers!

[@MihaiOnilayoutube]

Thank you so much ! I know all this stuff already but a litle refreshing for your memory and focusing your attention on what`s matter is really good sometimes ! Thanks again !

[@Superdelphinus]

I actually love you, Izotope

[@johnhowarthmusic8706]

Always informative, comprehensive and perfectly presented. Thank you.

[@Keroser1983]

Amazing!!! Very informative, no waste of time, very well put. Keep them coming!!!

[@igitur]

Thank you for this. Learned a couple of new things! I really appreciate this video

[@rbroach68]

Love this series! I've been waiting for S3!

[@teashea1]

very good video - articulate, organized and very fine production values

[@PASTACATProductions]

Unrelated, but that is an excellent shirt.

[@joramponi249]

True Master (explaining mastering)

[@teashea1]

Very good presentation - nice production values; especially the audio

[@michaelchang6317]

Great tips, keep it up the excellent work. Thank you and greetings from Mauritius 🇲🇺

[@raybeeger1529]

Rob, thank you! Nowadays we can use a headphone amp with crossfeed like the SPL Phonitor 2.

[@williamtell1477]

Love this series, so excited for this season! Thank you so much for putting this out!

[@TwstedTV]

One major problem that most people are going through is that most people live in apartments and the walls are paper thin. And they will have problems with neighbors. This is why most people work on headphones. People would love to use their studio monitors but they cant due to neighbors.

[@josephthepoet2856]

Thank you from 97% of people that make music out there without treated rooms!

[@suedelacy]

Perfect timing 🥰

[@RogerioValgode]

Thank you sir, this was soooo cool!

[@VicTheMonster]

Learned a lot! Thank you! What are your thoughts on Plugins Like Audio Mix Checker? 👏

[@freethinkers-inc.]

This video was so helpful. Thank you very much for sharing.🤗

[@heritagelegacy]

Excellent information thank you very much for the tutorial

[@Difrentstyles]

This was great

[@le-berry]

The word rely makes it hard for me sure you can rely on headphones for certain tasks both mixing and mastering but I always go back and forth from headphone to main and near field monitors and mono on a single low res speaker. All works together you could miss things not using headphones, you could miss chances not listing on main monitor and you can mess things up not checking on a low low res mono speaker as well (mono on main for low end is a thing to do as well)

[@theboytheycalljonny1]

Very enjoyable. Thank you.

[@boytricky]

I've been waiting for S3!

[@KTLion]

I'm wanting to know what mic you recorded your dialogue on lol, it sounds superb

[@Cody_OConnell]

Nice video. Regarding volume, 85db SPL is probably way too much for a small home studio. I have a pair of Yamaha HS8's in a bedroom and if I turn them up to 80db they're bumpin'. I'm just a hobbyist so take that with a grain of salt, but I recommend people get a SPL meter from amazon. You can get one for about $20 and it's worth it if you have monitors to get a sense of what 70db or 80db really sounds like. Then when you listen to headphones you have somewhat of a sense of how loud they're playing

[@vaakhsmusic360]

Thnk u for such authentic information sir.

[@Professor_Pat]

This was great guys. Thanks!

[@AaronTrimbleMusic]

I love this video and the whole series, Thank you, Johnathan!!..Curious though, I would think that popular bluetooth listening technology would be an asset in a mastering environment to make sure the song is translating. You even mentioned translation in the video 8:46. Is this the wrong idea?

[@hazysonic]

Really great helpful thoughts to digest

[@Huru_]

Really missed this serie.

[@matthewv789]

Fantastically reasonable and informative video (as usual from Jonathan).

[@VicTheMonster]

You are my Virtual Mentor!

[@flashes_of_ramfis]

thank you very much!!

[@Geliusmixing]

Thank you very much!

[@MikeHeebz]

Thanks again for the great information & sharing your knowledge Jonathan! Any opportunity for us to send in a mix for a critique or to be used for a live tutorial mastering session? Again, thanks for you time. Have a great day! =)

[@intrinsic1538]

The Sennheiser HD600 headphones (shown in video) are *fantastic*. I've used them for almost 10 years - super clear, as good as much more expensive headphones. Do not get the HD650 model - it sounds quite different.

[@stereofidelic67]

The graphic at 1:16 shows a pair of cool looking headphones. They seems to be called 'Moria'? is that correct? Moria / Mobia headphones?

[@Vid3oGameCentralHD]

Great shirt!

[@emiel333]

Great video with lots of tips and advice. You guys are awesome!

[@ProsonicProduction]

Thanks Jonathan, Great video content on mixing and mastering with headphones. These tips will definitely improve every audio engineer decisions moving forward. #iZoptope #Mastering

[@davegross7014]

Sage advice!

[@leonardobadilla3374]

Terrific video !

[@samnarjinary]

Great content as always...!

[@curtismech]

Thanks for this video. Very informative!

[@patanjali307]

Oh my. Now I have to shop cans. Are my AKG K701's good enough?

[@wretchedpinheadpuppets]

Great video! Beyer should thank you! I just bought a new set of headphones!:)

[@kingdomkeys6840]

Thank you.

[@RicHollandUK]

Excellent content well presented.

[@rrojuan]

Thanks!!

[@TiagoFlores]

The intro song reminds me of Waqas Qazi!

[@restlessnik4610]

Hi! Love these courses! I have a few questions/problems that arose during mastering one of my own tracks: 1. After I master and turn up the volume in ozone, my snare and kick is to loud. I have loads of multiband compression in ozone, but snare and kick just become to loud then I turn it up. Is this because of my setting in the maximiser?I have some parallel compression on my drums in the mix. Especially on computer speakers they seem to “jump” out of the speakers to much, making kind of a boxy sound. 2. In the same mix, everything seems to be a little too much affected by the limiters in particular when I turn things up, and you can hear the effect quite clearly on the whole mix. Is this because I mix to quietly? I had to turn it up ALOT to reach the competitive levels desired.

[@OjiEdutainment]

I try to use different types of headphone and loud speakers to get a great mix...

[@shellymoreira]

Great, thanks!

[@realripretrodisco]

HELLO, WHAT IS YOUR OPINION OF THE AUDIO TECHNICA ATH m40x HEADPHONE? good for remastering?

[@FDMastering]

Oh boy how I missed this series :)

[@dbenzi87]

Good stuff!!

[@wadewilliams1892]

Fantastic

[@borgan1964]

i bouth a copple of Focal headset,,,they just awsome

[@MR_Cellarpop]

Thanks for great info :)

[@GILLISH]

1st of all mixing is about getting frequency so they don't change not matter what there 4 u can mix on a head set

[@imslicc]

it's somewhat unrelated to the video, but i guess there's a good concentration of pro audio people in here. i'm looking into buying an interface that has a similar level of A/D and D/A convention as a high-end one, and also have some pro-level preamps (i'm aware of the coloring advantages of high-end preamps). would you say RME could be as good as Lynx, Burl and such? thanks

[@storysofar7426]

RME all the way…I have several of their interfaces and they function flawlessly….build quality is excellent…conversions are very flexible…and the sound is pure…some complain about the mixer software that is used to control/monitor your audio…Their is a small learning curve, but once you get it, you will love it …

[@massivebeatzz]

Speaker simulation is key - in a virtual room..If virtual rooms can be crated in animation and VR for 2022 high tech for billions of dollars - it' s fairly easy for the few bits and bites music requires in 2022, for audio. Once you simulate the room environment and adjust for brand inconsistencies, you can get at least be a lot better than an average room (with a 1000 dollar headphone and 1500 dollar headphone amp DAC). The software is fairly cheap these days. Add a SubPac haptic feedback Sub woofer replacement and you'll feel the rumble too, without blowing your ears. I really Realphones by DsoniQ.

[@PseudoPulse]

Love the shirt!

[@zenluiz]

Whatever this guy says, I feel one should just trust :)

[@MrHamit64]

What about if they have APTX or LDAC? You'd have to use a Mac Book for APTX obviously. LDAC well I don't know how many people produce on Android. Unless Crome Book OS supports LDac.

[@emrahgunduz]

I actually have a few steps. Listen in room monitor, with a hifi headphone, in my car, from my shitty TV speaker and then from the mid-quality soundbar. Does it sound good in all of them? Then it's done :D

[@nikhilchoudhary2137]

Sir, does impedance affect quality? or can?

[@sideast]

Yes, low impedance are louder and good for tracking . High impedance are more detailed but require a driver because they are quieter

[@m.i.stapes]

Where can I get more info on reading the insight pro scopes? I'm not quite comfortable in using them and would like to learn more.

[@iZotopeOfficial]

Jonathan did an episode on metering in a previous season of Are You Listening: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fpiwnmVthaxnfNk And you can read through the Insight manual here: s3.amazonaws.com/izotopedownloads/docs/insight200/en/sound-field/index.html

[@m.i.stapes]

@@iZotopeOfficial Excellent!! Thanks y'all!!

[@thaexception3406]

Pretty comprehensive.

[@bakedcreations8985]

If this dude was born 2000 years ago he would have been considered the village elder/shaman/wise man

[@TokyoSpeirs]

If this dude was talking about lissajous spectrometry and cross correlative distortion 2000 years ago he would have been burned at the stake.

[@bakedcreations8985]

@@TokyoSpeirs lol

[@jarcauco]

And that's why mastering the village's most popular songs did not happen until the law prohibited burning audio engineers in the 1940's.

[@m.i.stapes]

Love it!!

[@Enice43]

👋 what headphones or you using in this video