DO IT! DO IT! :-) Seriously, I would encourage you to try any of them. I really love to get them into the hands of people. They really do change lives, approaches and outcomes. They are the most useful things I have ever done. Moneyback guarantee too. If you think I’m over selling it, just ask for a refund and you’ll get it. I’ll never even find out about it either. Best wishes, Justin Ps: Thanks so much for the kind words!

So great to hear Ace! Glad to be useful. Thanks for the comment :-) -Justin

So great to hear Mike! CLA himself references. Heard him talk about it in a interview once. Surprising similar thoughts on it! You’ve got to tune your ears, body and mind every day. -Justin

Will do Steven! Excited to report back soon. -Justin

So awesome to hear Jeremy! The best investments you can make are in yourself. Glad to hear you’re doing it. :-) -Justin

So great to hear George! -Justin

@@SonicScoop I’m sorry... it was 3AM & I called you Jason 😜Sorry Justin ☺️🙏

Very interesting! Glad to hear you found an approach that works for you. -Justin

@@SonicScoop ditto the guy. I've had to use Verum One for everything. It turned out that my main income is mastering now :D Had to relocate because of war in Ukraine to someplace less dangerous for couple months. Left my studio with all the stuff. Was heartbreaking at the time. But it turned out, that good HPs and newer MacBook do wonders to productivity. I went back home to my studio later. And I do like options now. Good headphones revealed stereo image to me, I never understood how it works, until I've spent enough time with these HPs. EQing now isn't wild guess, its really precise. Even with stock M1 MBA headphone socket, its crazy! The only thing I missed was subwoofer

I found this issue with monitors, too, so I opted for Sony cans and iems

actually headphone frequency response is usually pretty wacky or, odd like your first impression. why not still use both that and some monitors too? i bought kali audio bc erin’s audio corned reviewed them, a person that tests speakers w sophisticated instruments and reveals data. they aren’t perfect but we’ll do you know the fr graph of those headphones?

Interesting man. Do you come in for unpleasant surpises once you remove that HPF LPF eq?

I would do that IS listening to references on your monitors. It’s just that the headphones are your monitors :-) -Justin

That's so great to hear! So glad to be useful. Thanks so much for the comment. Best wishes to you, Justin

On it Mike! -Justin

Sounds cool! Haven’t heard of it yet. I’ll check it out. Thanks, Justin

So are you mixing with goodhertz canopener the whole time like you would with soundID? l have Senheisser HD 560s open back headphones, would they support it?

@@flamersss Yeah, it will work with any headphones. I use CanOpener with SoundID together, which they (Goodhertz) recommend. There's a demo you can try. It's also possible someone might be selling a license for it on Knobcloud.

Absolutely! Thanks for the great comment. -Justin

@@SonicScoop 😎👍 Thanks for all you do....I learn so much here!

Thanks so much for the kind words Matt! Hope to see more if you around. -Justin

Good luck! Having a space to work in is one of the most important things. -Justin

I’m trying my brother! All the building I’ve been doing lately has been in the studio… Which is where I need to be! But it was a means to an end! I grabbed those Audezee MM 500s.. and I’m using the auratones as well. I have another pair.. but I need my room! At least I’m able to track most parts! Vocals are kind of difficult… Which sucks because I’m a singer! But I’m also a guitar player! So I’m getting a lot of that done, alongside practice! Once I get done tracking, brother, I’m taking your classes, which will be very soon! TANNER10, I’m in!

Awesome to hear on all counts Randy! Glad to have you as a member. -Justin

Glad to have you here Entretenido! -Justin

So glad to be useful! Hope to see more of you around the channel. -Justin

Thanks for tuning in Tom, and for the comment! -Justin

Your welcome!

!00% agree. I've mixed in acoustically treated rooms with great monitors. But the thing about Slate VSX that brought it all together for me was trusting them completely because they're sampled from properly treated rooms. But also, checking them on many different setups. I've even spent some time mixing in the Mastering Room because each room has a different focus on the frequency range.

@@MOSMASTERING 💯💯

Gave these a try and the sucked in my opinion. No match for a proper setup.

@@soundeducation5554 they’re not meant to replace a proper setup 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ try bringing your ‘proper setup’ somewhere else and see how that works out. Can you bring your proper setup while traveling? Can you bring your proper setup in an airport? 🤦‍♂️

@@danthegeetarman Yea if you're on the move I have to agree with you.

Interesting! Thanks for the comment. Let us know how that approach works out for you if you give it a try. -Justin

Thank you so much Kyle! You've found the Super Thanks button! It is super appreciated. Unfortunately. I've just been informed that the "Join" button does not appear on the Apple iOS app for iPhone or Android. Maybe that's the issue for you? To see the Join button, you'll have to visit any SonicScoop video from your phone's browser app or from your desktop. My apologies for the inconvenience! This is new for us and I did'n' know about it until just now. I'll be sure to mention it to people in future episodes. Thanks again for your support and interest! -Justin

Hi Kyle, in case it helps, I've JUST been informed where the link is that you can hit to go directly to the JOIN section. (You may still need to do it outside of an iOS app the first time though.) Here it is: kzfaq.info/love/qEKv3KIZoZrjv2LymD3iMgjoin Very best, Justin

See, I was wondering if that was something that can be done, just reverse engineering or matching the curve in that instance to help balance out headphones. Glad to see somebody do it and seem to have success with it.

Yes, applying the EQ curve yourself with any EQ shouldn’t be a problem. It’s *figuring out what the EQ curve should be* that’s the issue. That’s where solutions like Sonarworks and others are so helpful. Especially for rooms or custom headphone correction. (Where they measure the exact frequency response of your exact pair of headphones). Hope that helps! -Justin

In demo mode, TB Morphit runs as if you bought it. So there's a free option right there - obviously buy it if you can.

LOL, if someone's on a budget, like me, they probably don't own ProQ3. ;)

I bought the whole thing. Didn't like it at first. Then thought I liked it and that my mixes had really improved. Then realised that my mixes hadn't really improved. I'm going to give it a 3rd crack soon. But I dunno about VSX. The fans love it. For them it's incredible. For me, I admit I am not an experienced mixer anyway and I'm trying very hard to get good. But I dunno about VSX. It's kind of claustrophobic maybe. You're in those closed headphones all the time. You change rooms and the tonal characteristics of a source can change pretty dramatically. To the extent that you wonder if you're still listening to the same source you were just listening to in another of the VSX rooms. Like this kick drum in this VSX room will sound tubby...but in this VSX room it will sound kind of sharp and clicky. So which damn room do I trust? When you're mixing surely you want a reproduction of the sound that is flat right? Or that is representative of how that source should kind of sound on the widest amount of playback types. But what the hell do I know. All I know is I am bad at mixing.

That is an original vintage Auratone from the 1970s. You can find my roundup and review of all the new recreations of them here: sonicscoop.com/the-great-auratone-roundup-with-reviews-of-the-avantone-and-behritone-studio-monitors/ Hope that helps! -Justin

Thanks for the kind words Rome! I actually wondered the same thing about what I said after I said it 😅 I could have said it more clearly, but what I mean is this: If I were using headphones as a *primary* reference (especially in my context of mastering) the HD600s would be too light in the lows for me to rely on. For my work, I could’t take them on the road and make final decisions about lows on them. This would be much less of a problem if they were meant to serve as a secondary reference to complement a system that already gave you some useful information about lows, and it would be less of a problem in mixing than in mastering. That said, yes! Using bass light headphones and just focusing on the midrange would be preferable to horrible lows on speakers in an untreated room that you haven’t figured out. So that is also true at the same time. I don’t think they are mutually exclusive. But IMHO, one potential benefit of headphones over speakers-at lower price points in particular-is that they can potentially offer more reliable low end for a lower investment, if you choose appropriately. But if you can’t get low end you trust, stressing about it less for the moment and just focusing more on the midrange until your listening situation improves is a great call. So I believe both those things at once: Strive to get the best low end you can for the long run, but if bad lows are hurting more then helping, filtering them out can be helpful for now. Hope that makes sense! -Justin

GIK Acoustics. Tell my guy Mike Major I sent ya! :-) -Justin

You'd be better off just using an eq to filter out the freq you don't want to hear. Say you don't want to hear anything below 150hz...just use a high pass filter. That is...roll off the bass frequencies. A multiband dynamics thing is different.

The big benefit of something like Sonarworks is in helping you figure out exactly what EQ to apply. Applying or yourself, using practically anything, isn’t the hard part. There are also higher end hardware solutions like the one made by Trinnov. Hope that helps! Justin

On it! Should have them here in a few days. -Justin

It’s coming! Got a whole bunch of headphones here I’m auditioning currently. -Justin

@@SonicScoop how can I be a member. Love your content

Just click here to become a member: kzfaq.info/love/qEKv3KIZoZrjv2LymD3iMgjoin Members get guaranteed replies to their comments, access to exclusive Q&As with guaranteed answers, mix feedback sessions and more. Hope to see you there! -Justin

Absolutely. I do mention it as part of the system in this video. -Justin

@@SonicScoopdo you feel nd30’s or hd600 would translate better/easier effort?

This is why a lot of older music I reckon just sounds good. It didn't have super low and high. It was all midrange. Whatever those mixing guys were doing back in the day they knew how to listen and they must have had nice flat honest ways to hear what they were doing. Their stuff sounds good to this day. I've got gear coming out of my gear...but lack the skill to make a simple balanced song that sounds pretty normal wherever you listen to it. I've tried....A LOT of things to improve. But success hasn't come yet.

Can be demoralizing. I record stuff and the song is full of emotionality and impact or whatever...then you mix it and listen in a car or some other way to listen and it sounds profoundly lame. Very disappointing stuff.

I have some right here that I'll be evaluating for my next big roundup. -Justin

Hey-Would love to help! Check out JustinColletti.com or the JLM website: joelambertmastering.com/get-a-quote-with-justin-colletti/ Hope to talk soon, Justin

All of this makes sense and is relatable. Mixes SHOULD sound shrill on 7506s. If you have a car with lots of subs, and you’re listening in headphones that are not revealing in the subs, such as the 600s and 7506, you SHOULD be surprised by the low end you’re finally hearing in the car. Assuming you don’t want to sound thousands on accurate monitoring and room treatment, I’d recommend headphones that go deeper. I really like the Audeze stuff. Slate VSX can also be a good choice. The Sennheiser 490 have a little more low than the 600 while still sounding similar. Frequency analyzers can also help you learn the lows. You need monitoring you can really trust, and to get to know how great material sounds on it deeply. After that, you need Mixing Breakthroughs :-) Your mixes CAN improve dramatically from where they are now. Many such cases :-)

@@SonicScoop Yes. Thanks. I do use SoundID with the 600's. Plus a mono Mixcube and HS8's. But I guess either these or my own ears do not get me accurate mixes. I bet there's many such cases! I just want to get out of this nightmare of basically mixing in the dark.

Fortunately not! FM radio processing is done at the radio station itself. You may lose some bandwidth and stereo width due to transmitting FM though. -Justin

@@SonicScoop very interesting. Thanks!

This video should be great for you! If you prefer the audio only version, it will be up on Apple Podcasts tomorrow. Hope it proves useful to you :-) Tips numbers 6 and 7 are especially essential here. Very best, Justin

My 2 cents: On vocal buss try a 3 db cut at 2-4k, dynamic if you have fab filter type eq.....had lots of problems with that.....Soothe is a nice plug in for harshness too...also use 3 levels of compression, at least.

oeksound soothe will solve that problem

Hi William, if you don't see the Join button it's likely because you are on an iOS app. Please try again from a mobile or desktop browser and you should see it! Hope that helps, Justin

Awesome! Thanks, Justin! This channel is fantastic.

Hi William, in case it helps, I've JUST been informed where the link is that you can hit to go directly to the JOIN section. (You may still need to do it outside of an iOS app the first time though.) Here it is: kzfaq.info/love/qEKv3KIZoZrjv2LymD3iMgjoin

What are your speakers plugged in to ?

Are you using unbalanced cable to connect one but not the other? -Justin

@@SonicScoop Thanks, for the reply, that was it! :) Yeah, they were both plugged into my Furman, but the ultimate cause of the interference came down to the cables being different.

They're amazing really!! It is 100% accurate and trustworthy in my experience and they translate.

@@sketchmesome _"100% accurate and trustworthy"_ No such thing.

@@davelordy i mean see for yourself. It works 🤷🏽

Hey Nicolas....im pretty satisfied...I do a master on VSX and one in the room on my Adam A7's.....I also check things on Shure 1840s.....but the Vsx's are pretty impressive. I think the theme is to learn whatever environment you are in and compare, level matched, to commercial releases....you can hone your mix to those frequencies. (Plugin Alliance Metric A/ B is my favorite plug in for creating apples to apples comparisons) My mixes are at my channel. Maybe the last 5 or so are with VSX adding data...See what you think.....and regarding low end, they sound as low as I need...I often high pass mixes at 50Hz or so these days (average slope)....cleans things up regardless.

@@ThisMichaelBrown Don't you end up with a lack of low bass when you high pass at 50Hz?

The 490 have more low end if you use the black producer pads that come with them. They do add substantially more and better low end than some prior Sennheisers that are very popular for mixing, but don't have the most low end on the market. I don't think it's fair to say they have "no" low end. But if you need a metric ton of bass, there are other options that are tilted to put out even more. -Justin

The club is just $5/month right now! It won’t always stay that low. But I am grandfathering in people who join in the early stages. -Justin

Even after listening to it, I have no idea what sound it was, but permission granted 🙃 -Justin

@@SonicScoop sorry 39:49 lol love your stuff! i learn alot from your videos

There should be a “Join” button, right next to the “subscribe” button on every video. Have a look and let me know if you have any trouble! -Justin

Hi Kyle, in case it helps, I've JUST been informed where the link is that you can hit to go directly to the JOIN section. (You may still need to do it outside of an iOS app the first time though.) Here it is: kzfaq.info/love/qEKv3KIZoZrjv2LymD3iMgjoin Very best, Justin

Indeed. -Justin

You’re absolutely right! The technical term is “schmutz”. I think I’ve watched one too many episodes of Coffee Talk with Linda Richman. -Justin

It’s hard to do those on livestreams. I don’t know how long each section is going to be til I’m done with it :-) Maybe I can go back and add them in the future sometime, but I’ve been using that time and energy to excerpt shorter videos instead. -Justin

If only egg cartons would actually function properly as acoustic treatment-the world would be much simpler and less expensive! Unfortunately, they will do practically nothing to help with mix translation to other environments-especially not in the low end. -Justin

Apparently many thousands of people disagree with that take 🤷🏻‍♂️ Read the comments, look at the likes count and percentage, and you’ll quickly recognize that most people watching this don’t seem to feel that way at all. Why are they getting something out of it that you are not? How are they approaching it differently or listening to it differently to get so much more out of it than you seem to be? Objectively speaking, there are tons of actionable tips and insights in here that don’t require buying anything. Why are others able to notice them, while you are finding it hard to do so? Perhaps it’s just a personality mismatch and that’s ok. But objectively speaking, the answers here are not “just buy the courses”. If that was the case, the video would likely have far fewer likes and views and positive comments, and far more comments like yours, instead of just the one. Food for thought! -Justin

Short excerpts from the livestreams can be found in the Shorts section and the main Videos tab. Look for a whole bunch of 1 minute and 5 minute clips from this one in the coming week. Be sure to subscribe so you don’t miss them! If you can’t wait, get on one of the podcasting platforms and listen to while you’re driving or doing chores. (Maybe at double speed if you can handle it.) That’s how I get through all the podcasts I listen to anyway :-) Hope that helps, Justin

You get what you get.

honestly, after a mix i did in laptop speakers translated to multiple devices i started trusting my feeling and test in crappy speakers more lol

We’ve got a ton of videos like that! Linked in every video description too :-) Try here: kzfaq.info/sun/PL3yghKGBjggTkBYyc-1_larMT6K4rGwmr This particular video is a podcast episode, which is a talking format. Hope that helps, Justin