What Headphones are you using for Mixing/Producing your songs

[godinqc]

Thanks for the info
I will let you know what I end up buying

[alfstone]

AKG K271 MKII

Alfredo

[Geir]

I use Audio-Technica ATH-M20x and can highly recommend them.

I use them for recording and also mixing mastering, when I can't use my monitors. They also have a 3m cable so very suitable for recording sessions with my band.

They are not that pricy either.

Here's a list of 10 good headphones and it is among them and get good reviews 

https://musiccritic.com/equipment/headphones/best-mixing-headphones/

[Johnbee]

I love my Audio Technica ATH-M50x and I used to use them exclusively until just recently.  I bought a pair of AKG 240s as a backup but then I took advantage of the special on Waves Chris Lord Alge's NX Virtual Studio software.  They had it marked down to $30.00 from $200.00 the week of Thanksgiving.  So, to test it out I used the 240s to track my last project and when it came time to mix I switched over to the ATH M50s using the CLA NX room and it was quite an experience.  Before you render the mix you should disable the NX room, which I did, but overall it did make quite a bit of difference in my mix to go by the virtual room sound with the M50s as opposed to mixing in the same environment all of the time. 
  John B

[Zoltan]

I used cheap Lidl headphones that i learned to trust. When they broke i went thru several cheap headphones until settling down to Sony WH-1000XM3. They're not meant for mixing and i don't know them that well, but i liked them enough that buying those ended up my search for better ones. If there was a shop near where i could have gotten proper headphones for mixing i might have gone that route...

I've been really interested in those virtual room / headphone mixing plugins, but for some reason i have never learned to listen thru them. I know many people use them and get great results from them. I think it's down to me being so low on the totem pole yet, and not really having any set methods in the way i work. I seem to reinvent the wheel everytime i mix something. I don't even use the same plugins all the time. My go to's are just some EQ cuts, and they're more instinctive than learned. Maybe in the next few years i'll be able to up my game. So for now it's those Sony headphones and cheap Behringer monitors that i'm mixing thru. And i'm only checking the low end and doing some general stuff with the headphones on. If the mix sounds good on the headphones it surely sounds bad with the monitors. When the mix works on the monitors it's probably semi-ok with the headphones. So it's a back and forth thing in anycase.

[SharksDontSleep]

Another vote for the Audio Technica ATH-M50x from me too.
I predominantly record, mix & master using them .
It keeps the neighbours happy.

[AndyR]

I've been using beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro 250 Ohm for ages now for tracking, mixing, and mastering (along with ADAM T7V monitors).

I originally bought these, as they're closed back, for decent headphones when tracking.
But I loved them so much I ended up using them for everything.

I also have an old pair of Sennheiser HD600, open backed, which is what I was originally using for mixing.
But I found these really warm and bottom heavy... and overly forgiving of of harsh highs.

When I got the DT 770 Pros, that was a bit of an eye-opener (ear-opener?) for me.
I kinda stopped using the HD600s because I was getting the top-end better on my mixes.
But occasionally I'd be a bit in the dark about the bottom end.
As they're closed back, I guess they end up suppressing excessive bottom end without me realising.

Upgrading the monitors to Adam T7V seriously improved stuff... but I'm still stuck with a naff room and some bass resonance problems (I know where to put my head to get almost "accurate", and it's luckily at the point of the magic triangle between the monitors ).

So it's been a mixture of the monitors and the DT 770 Pros. And it seems/seemed good.

I haven't been doing a lot of recording recently, but I have been doing a HUGE amount of mastering work.
Learning, remastering, learning some more, etc, etc.
I'm finding my original mixes off the BR1600 were SO much better than what I ended up posting everywhere.
So I'm gradually sorting everything out and using it as a learning experience for mastering and audio file editing.

During that, I've discovered that the HD600s with their bottom end are possibly better for mastering.

But they're wearing out ... and today they failed me!
I spent an hour this afternoon with a weird distortion, internal clipping maybe, on the bottom end (0Hz - 150Hz) of the one I'm doing at the moment (The Dressing-up Box).
I'm using a multi-band compressor set for no compression, btw, it enables me to solo each frequency band to see what's there, any congestion, harshness, and so on.
I just couldn't get rid of this weird distortion/clipping on that band. I'd been getting it on other songs and losing had meant compromises, but at least it did go on those...
This time it wouldn't go... So I went back to the original mix checking the same band ... and it wasn't there... then I turned the volume up to match the volume of the mastering version... AHA! there it was.
It was then I realised it was the HD600 headphones distorting...

The foam between my ears and the driver is old and disintegrating... and there was a big lump fallen into the driver assembly! 
Got that out and things drastically improved - not enough though, still funny "distortion" on these headphones. Not in the monitors, even with them much loud, not with the DT 770 Pros.

I've just retired the HD600s...

And now, on order (well, the "what do you want for your birthday, about £100?" question has been answered!), there's a set of beyerdynamic DT 990 Pro 250 Ohm.
I'm fairly certain those will do the job the HD600 were doing, but more to my taste.

In just over a month, I suspect I shall be using:
The DT 770 Pros for tracking (and listening to stuff in the living room when she's watching the TV)
The DT 990 Pros - and monitors - for mixing and mastering

By the way, I've heard really good things over the years about the Audio Technica ATH-M50s ...
But, when the moment came for me to buy them a few years back, there was something that stopped me and I went for the DT 770 Pros instead.
I don't remember what it was... was there something about how some people thought the "new" M50x were not as magical as the original M50?? Was that it? It wasn't on here, it was another place, where everyone raved about the M50s, but there was something that made me pause and stick my money to beyerdynamic instead.

[64Guitars]

The foam between my ears and the driver is old and disintegrating... and there was a big lump fallen into the driver assembly! 
Got that out and things drastically improved - not enough though, still funny "distortion" on these headphones. Not in the monitors, even with them much loud, not with the DT 770 Pros.

I've just retired the HD600s...

You can buy replacement ear pads for the HD600s, either genuine replacements from Sennheiser* or less expensive third-party replacements.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Sennheiser+HD600+ear+pads&ia=web


* The Sennheiser parts page is currently under maintenance. They say it will return on February 2nd.

[AndyR]

The foam between my ears and the driver is old and disintegrating... and there was a big lump fallen into the driver assembly! 
Got that out and things drastically improved - not enough though, still funny "distortion" on these headphones. Not in the monitors, even with them much loud, not with the DT 770 Pros.

I've just retired the HD600s...

You can buy replacement ear pads for the HD600s, either genuine replacements from Sennheiser* or less expensive third-party replacements.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Sennheiser+HD600+ear+pads&ia=web


* The Sennheiser parts page is currently under maintenance. They say it will return on February 2nd.

Cheers! I was wondering that ... actually, I've had to replace the leads before, so I was fairly certain it was a do-able.

The pads are fine though, it's the fine layer of foam padding between the ear and driver that's died and was flaking off in pieces. I was thinking source some thin foam, cut to size and jam in there like the original was!

[kenny mac]

I really got a suprise when I bought these
https://www.gear4music.com/Recording-and-Computers/SubZero-SZ-MH200-Monitoring-Headphones/10GP

I had a pair with my focustite dock and the cable went,my fault,I was really wanting to replace them ,old rottenhead pointed these out to me saying they looked the same,and they were.
Excellent.