The HS5s in this plugin sound exactly like my HS5s. So I'm confident that the other monitors in this plugin are accurate as well.

You made me try realphones way back, and i have to thank you! It was the final piece of the puzzle. Actually it was as close to a ”game changer” i’ll ever come, however used up that phrase may be. In just 2-3 days of using it my workflow was twice as fast and my mixes translated perfectly to all systems i could get my hands on. For me the low lows was tricky getting to sit right (clubs and PA mixes), and i had a dip in the 200hz range that made my mixes a bit muddy if i didn’t remember to check for it. Also getting phones and small speakers to translate with clarity was also some work. It took a lot of extra time to double check and stumbling around in the dark. None of the other emulation plugins worked, and i’ve tried them all.. phasy, buggy, bad quality (slate…) and too unflexible to be a useful tool. All of this is a breeze now thanks to realphones! Once again, thank you! You have actually changed my (studio) life!!! ❤ take care!!

Yesterday I gave Realphone 2 a try with my Heddphone. I love the correction it does. Now when I listen to reference tracks, the kick and bass are on the exact position they should be. Up front instead of all over the place. And still sounding natural. Love it!

Love this! ❤️ Thanks for sharing! 👍

I was on Sonarworks/Sound ID and AA Sienna Guru. Realphones blows them away both in the number of calibrations available, headphone and room model. Also, the room emulation accuracy seems of higher fidelity via my HD650s. There was a gap of time recently in which I configured Steinberg stock EQ and used your Harmon curve setup, that was a revelation until now, what with the Harmon curve now so conveniently an option in RP 2.0.

I’ve been doing tons and tons of research on headphone mixing recently and have tried literally everything. Like everything everything. VSX, Sienna, Realphones, NX, all the different EQing plugins, everything. And I have finally settled on a solution that is far superior to literally all the other commercial things you see advertised. It would take a while to describe in full detail but I’ll give a brief overview of it. If anybody wants to know more specific details about the process, comment below and I’ll do my best to explain. So it starts out with the fact that I’m mixing on headphones for 2 reasons. One because I don’t have a good room to mix in, and 2 because theoretically headphones should be better than mixing in a room because there are no reflections and weird room stuff happening. Headphones are a “perfect room” essentially. The only problems we run into with headphones are crossfeed and EQ response. Most of y’all know this already. So, first what I do is I route the audio of my DAW (Ableton) into reaper using a lossless audio router called Blackhole (free). Then I create a 121 channel audio track and a 121 channel master track in reaper. Then I add a plug-in to the audio track called axPanner from SSA Plugins (paid). This plug-in is an ambisonics encoder and allows me to add “transparent” crossfeed to my signal with high quality and definition. I set the ambisonics “order” to 10 (highest quality that requires 121 channels), and then I set the “width” to 60 degrees. What that does is adds a 60 degree binaural sort of “speaker angle” to the left and the right channel. There’s a free version of this sort of plugin that’s also good, with slightly less resolution (7th order ambisonics/64 channels) called StereoEncoder from IEM. I prefer the axPanner with the 10th order because it has slightly more realism. Then on the master track you have to put an ambisonics decoder to make it so that all these channels can be routed and perceived properly with a stereo pair of headphones. For this, the best one I’ve found is the IEM BinauralDecoder (free). Now you can hear the hyper realistic 60 degree crossfeed happening (a lot better than Canopener). Then at the end of the chain on the master track, I add a plug-in called LAconvolver which is a plain Jane, transparent convolution plugin. I use this to EQ my headphones. I go to the auto Eq website, load my headphones (Audeze MM-500) and I EQ it to the diffuse field curve with a bass boost (simulating subwoofer volume). By default auto Eq only has a -1db per octave diffuse field curve, which I don’t want, so I take add a +1db per octave tilt to it to bring it back to true diffuse field. I turn off smoothing and tweak a bunch of advanced settings (too many details to list, ask if you’re curious), until my headphones exactly match a diffuse field curve with a bass boost (21 db in my case, I know it sounds crazy). Then I select a convolution EQ in the drop-down menu for selecting your Eq App, and I export from auto Eq a wav file that is a convolution EQ of my headphones EQd to a bass boosted diffuse field curve, and then I load that file into LAconvolver. I’m using the diffuse field curve for 2 reasons. 1, the diffuse field curve is a curve that is meant to produce a “flat” sounding speaker respond when used with spacial audio or binauralized audio. And 2, it’s a very precise, exact EQ curve. If you EQ to harman, it’s an appropriation curve, which some people like, but I don’t, and also it’s the Eq curve of an already spatial or binaural speaker measurement, so then if you add an 60 degree speaker angle that actually does a realistic job, it messes up the EQ curve. So the signal chain goes DAW output > Blackhole > Reaper 121 channel audio track > axPanner (10th order ambi) > Reaper 121 channel master track > Binaural Decoder (IEM) > LAconvolver (bass boosted diffuse field curve convolution preset for my headphones). It is the most realistic headphone mixing experience I’ve ever found. It translates 100% of the time to speakers and other environments and I can hear everything with such insane accuracy and detail. Hope somebody gets something out of this!

I always use the NS10 in Waves NX headphones plugin and i have the Real phones 2 also but not used it yet as i mainly mix in Atmos.. But if you get the mix good on NS10's it will translate great almost every where. Nice review

😅 My niece just said : " are you watching fantasia?" 😅 so Paul you are apparently magic xD. However, good video as always. I really love realphones, it change the way I mixed with headphones.

That studio looking tasty

Realphones is incredible. So many options and none of them sound phasey or boxy like other options. I've never used VSX, but I have used Waves Nx, Focusrite VRM, and Acustica Sienna - none of them sound right to me. Realphones nails it, and the system-wide implementation is great.

Good to see somebody pushing phones over speakers,, tis the future hehe 🤘

Hi Paul, I recently upgraded to the Ananda Nanos, and also got your EQ profile for them. Seems to work really well, pretty neutral actually and very comparable to my speakers (Eve Audio SC3073), even though I have minimum treatment in my room. The only thing missing for me is the crossfeed part which I definatelly think is necesary. I have tried both realphones 2 (crossfeed only, no room/speaker simulation) and can opener and they sound ... different. Clearly they are doing slightly different things, but the question is, which has the more accurate algorythm? Have you tried can opener? The thing is, I want to have it constantly on, and I don't want to shoot myself in the foot by messing up the HP sound with somethign unnatural that makes it more difficult to judge the stereo immage. I am not that experienced to be able to reliably tell myself so I don't know who to ask that works professionaly on headphones besides you. Thank you very much!

Nice descriptions there without playing any audio. Conveyed successfully! :-)

Hi Paul could you please share your eq settings for the ananda nano for realphones or proQ 3? im about to upgrade from the sundara and i used your preset for it and it was spot-on :) thxs in advance.

I was going to download the 41-day trial, but I was really looking for something with a 42 or 43-day trial.

.. I think the Realphones Pro version should be good for me vs the (Standard & Ultimate versions)..I hope it has 770pro & 990pro headphone correction profiles🤔 *What version is that in the video standard, professional or ultimate ?

I go to your channel often enough to know your integrity but not the reason you are no longer doing paid reviews. Personally, I think you've worked hard to build this channel and everyone here knows that music is hard. Watching you for years, I have developed trust in you and I know that if you do paid reviews, you are honest and you back up what you say with actual facts. (who else is going to tell people that even "vibe" has a science to it lol) So if its for personally reasons, then I completely understand. This is more so for anyone else reading. We aren't paying Paul, so let big companies do it. The reason he is popular is because we made him popular DUE to the fact we trust him. The day he stops being honest is the day he'll start to fail. Until then, I don't see why we can't make it easier for him to help us. Honestly, better him than other creators who are just going to do it for the money. If you ever feel the need to go back, I hope you don't feel bad about it! But if you can meet your finances in ways you enjoy better, by all means I wish that for you more than anything!

Curious, have you comapred these to the dearvr (latest version)

Hi Paul, how this compares to the VSX in your opinion, mix translation wise?

what eq correction software is Emrah using before the Ghz can opener . Im using audeze lcd x 2021 with auto eq settings and Harmon 2018 curve. Working that out still...

You should really check out the Slate VSX

The problem I have is that I have no idea what a good room with good speakers sounds like, and quite honestly so many of these emulations sound somewhat hollow and wobbly. I agree with Paul in that you have to pick a room and learn it, but when you don't necessarily know the strengths and weaknesses from the beginning, it's hard to know where the weakness is in your track - is it a weakness because the room has a weakness or because the track has a weakness? And then, checking in other rooms/speakers causes things to get overwhelming because there's no room where everything is just 'perfect' sounding - at least not to me. I have this problem with both Slate VSX and with Realphones.

Hello Paul. I've been watching your videos about mixing on headphones as I'm trying to get that working. I'm thinking of the Sundara and an amp. I have a RME Fireface 802 and I'm thinking if I should get just an amp like the topping L50 that I can get for 170 euros or a DAC/Amp like a FiiO K5 for 145. Or for a bit more, a Topping DX3 Pro+ or FiiO K7.Any impressions? Thanks

Will the software help me get good mixes? Because I've never managed that before. 😆 Seriously, I might just buy this product!

The only problem with mixing on headphones is that wearing headphones is not good for hair health and general becomes uncomfortable during long sessions. Like me, most people don't have a choice since it's difficult to set up a proper space. In that case, we appreciate innovative companies and products like this.

What do you think about mixing with sound id ?

All the virtual tools in the world are not going to change my mind. I hate using cans for anything other than tracking when necessary.

I wonder how this compares to VSX headphones.

So from what I understand... if you can afford to get yourself 3 different headphones that give you different perspectives of the mix, using one headphone to mix in canopener+harman eq and then reference realphones on 3 different sets of headphones that give you that transient punch, one for soundstage, and one for binaural depth, to check how it translates into other speakers/real world environments, then realphones is for you. If you can't afford to get 3 headphones to check everything then get vsx where it does it all for you as only using one planar magnetic headphone, unless you have a headphone that gives you the best soundstage possible, to mix with canopener and reference using realphones won't be enough because using only one headphone won't give you the "whole picture" in terms of the things that you mentioned. This is all assuming that you have a top grade dac/amp combo.

What are you using for mixing on headphones? 🤓

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the thing i find annoying, is the speaker emulations like laptops tvs and bluetooth speakers, they’re terrible. they don’t sound accurate at all. why am i hearing 20hz on a flatscreen tv? nooooope. i love this software, and swear by it, but these ones are a hard miss haha

Sorry Gordito, buy all the Heaphone 'Mixing software" are rubbish, they do not put the headphone amp in the equation....are thousands or hundreds of combination because Headphone Amps+headphones... the headphone amp change drastically the freq response of the headphones... the harman curve is ok, but is pretty much like to learn how your headphone translate..so we back to square one.... your studio is looking "chef kiss" hahahahaa

You keep pointing to "videos up there" but there's nothing there.

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It's ok to make money reviewing things you like. Shilling is an entirely different thing IMO.

lol, get the money to improve your life bud, no problem 👍🏼

a pair of shitty pc speakers are way reliable then this kind of softwares

Trump definitely mixes with headphones. Biden mixes with hearing aid.