EVERYTHING You Need To Know About EQ'ing Your Headphones For Mixing And Mastering
Welcome to MixPhones; the channel dedicated to everything mixing on headphones.
Hosted by multi award winning mix and mastering engineer Emrah Celik @Mixyap fellow audio geek and mixer @PaulThird
EMRAH'S CREDITS ✨
https://credits.muso.ai/profile/3dc5ad8d-9bf6-476b-b1cd-0dda5feaba59
EMRAH'S REFERENCES 🎧
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2UReOuAuTnnjM9GxMJEiuY?si=1gUszwR5Qxm-jXFsnUj_uw
A big aim of the channel is to provide a trustworthy platform for reviews of headphones, DAC's, headphone amplifiers and headphone related plugins and software within the sole context of mixing and mastering. MixPhones will cater for various budgets with the main focus of the channel being aimed most at providing CORRECT information regarding mixing professionally on headphones. We will also attempt to dive into some of the science and help everyone understand more about headphone design, target curves and essentially how you can make headphones work for your next project!
MixPhones will also be a place for interviewing professional mix and mastering engineers who predominantly mix/master on headphones so feel free to get in touch if you would be interested!
ESSENTIAL MIXING TOOLS
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https://www.meldaproduction.com/MConvolutionEZ?srsltid=AfmBOooCHyb0XFSuLhQ78CyZNq0halPX9qG2EEFnOTBtlGgMlcOMHk0A
https://autoeq.app/
https://squig.link/
https://rogueamoeba.com/soundsource/
https://eqmac.app/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/equalizerapo/
HEADPHONES WE USE (THOMANN EU)
https://www.thomann.co.uk/hifiman_arya_organic.htm?offid=1&affid=3915
https://www.thomann.co.uk/hifiman_ananda_nano.htm?offid=1&affid=3915
https://www.thomann.co.uk/hifiman_he1000se.htm?offid=1&affid=3915
https://www.thomann.co.uk/steven_slate_audio_vsx_essentials_edition.htm?offid=1&affid=3915
https://www.thomann.co.uk/audio_technica_ath_r70xa.htm?offid=1&affid=3915
HEADPHONE DAC & AMPS 🎧
RME ADI-2 Pro FS R Black Edition
https://thmn.to/thoprod/483507?offid=1&affid=3915
Topping D90 III Discrete
https://amzn.to/3QKSs3Z
Topping A90 Discrete
https://amzn.to/3QJl1P8
Topping DX1
https://amzn.to/4h4MCoJ
Topping L30 mk2
https://apos.audio/products/topping-l30-ii-headphone-amp?sca_ref=2631045.fe2CvXDSYM
Contact us at [email protected]
CHAPTERS
0:00 Why we need to EQ headphones for mixing
2:28 Not every headphone can handle a low end boost
3:36 Where to find the best headphone measurements
5:20 How to EQ higher frequencies
6:57 EQ example (FIIO FT1-Pro)
9:23 Why Harman as a starting point?
11:56 Minimum phase or linear phase?
14:28 Why less = better
18:22 Using your mix translation to fine tune your headphone EQ
22:50 What about combining HRTF?
23:42 Is convolution better than parametric?
29:10 Eq'ing headphones outside of the DAW
32:22 Using ProQ3/4 for headphone EQ
34:44 Understanding the bandwidth of your headphones
38:30 How to test distortion in headphones
39:35 Why bass energy is so important in headphones