Sennheiser PC37X randomly goes bad after disconnecting the cable ?
Greetings, Yesterday I was using my headset like normal with my macbook, just listening to music and on a call with people like usual, and the headset was perfectly fine. The stock wire that came with the headset is extremely long and yesterday it annoyed me very much that it kept getting tangled with itself, so I decided to see if the cable is replaceable. I pulled out the cable from the headset and saw the adapter, and looked online for a replacement. Upon plugging it back in, the audio sounded extremely muffled and washed out. Im not sure what I did wrong to make it mess up like that as I've always taken good care of it, ive had it for about 2 years and its always just been chilling on my desk, but anywho I thought the cable just went bad and ordered a replacement. The replacement came, and the issue is still persistant, so I am not sure what the issue is I've tried multiple different headsets and the issue is not with the port, and I also tried it with my windows laptop and...
Apr 23, 2024
Cheers, C
I've always been a studio musician and never a DJ, but I hate reading forum posts about what bad taste DJs have in sound. Theirs is a completely different use-case scenario from audiophile listening and studio recording because it almost never involves listening to headphones in a silent room; DJs are cueing the next track while listening to the one in the room. If they used reference headphones with full representations of highs and no compensation in the lows, DJs would naturally find themselves turning up the volume to hear the lows and probably damage their hearing as a result.
So you're talking about doing a live recording situation? Not as in audience, as in everyone plays at the same time? Or the drummer using the headphones when the mics are under/behind the drums?
As for vocals I would never allow an open back in the studio. I've had vocalists use closed back and the mic have picked up the leaks of those from the gap in the seal caused by thick glasses. Inside of a studio I would never use open backs. I love them. But they have their place. For recording the performer usually wears sony 7506's, or some other mid to low quality monitor headphone. We use cheap monitors because all that matters to the performer to hear, is if they are in tune and have decent tone quality and enunciation. A drummer would probably prefer the closed back over open just because the drums are so loud that you can hear everything outside of them and they overpower what's inside the headphone. Closed back keeps those sounds out too. Using open back for electric keyboard recording is fine because the keyboard sound is sent to a computer instead of being picked up acoustically. Using a real grand piano the mics pick up a lot more things as they are usually put farther from the piano so the strings that are closer to it don't sound louder, and the volume is then turned up On it afterwards so all the little sounds (even if your clothes make noise) will be picked up.
open back is for the mixing room, mastering artists use a mix of everything to make sure it sounds good on all devices, and closed backs are basically studio's best friend.