Apartment life SUCKS; or Brotha' Needs A New Set Of Headphones...

[jimh]

I plan shortly to upgrade to some wireless sennheisers.  Just not sure which ones yet.

Yea, I was hoping to get some feedback on wireless headphones as well. 
It would sure be nice to not jack around with that cord. 
My only concern is sound quality related to signial loss  :dontknow:
If anyone has used them, please post...
Thanks to everyone for all the other tips.  Sounds like I just need to go down to GC and try a bunch. 
They seem to have a lot of the brand that have been mentioned.

I've got a set of wireless Senn's at home.  Dont remember the model number off the top of my head, but they are great.  Sound great, but not very loud, but thats not surprising seeing as the amp has to be battery powered and sit inside one of the ear pieces.

I use mine for recording with Logic on my Mac so I'm not confined by cables.  Then switch to my Grado's for mixing (open backed so no good if you have other sound sources in the room, although they sound AWESOME) when I cant use the monitors if its late night or whatever.

 

[mayfly]

I plan shortly to upgrade to some wireless sennheisers.  Just not sure which ones yet.

Yea, I was hoping to get some feedback on wireless headphones as well. 
It would sure be nice to not jack around with that cord. 
My only concern is sound quality related to signial loss  :dontknow:
If anyone has used them, please post...
Thanks to everyone for all the other tips.  Sounds like I just need to go down to GC and try a bunch. 
They seem to have a lot of the brand that have been mentioned.

I've got a set of wireless Senn's at home.  Dont remember the model number off the top of my head, but they are great.  Sound great, but not very loud, but thats not surprising seeing as the amp has to be battery powered and sit inside one of the ear pieces.

I use mine for recording with Logic on my Mac so I'm not confined by cables.  Then switch to my Grado's for mixing (open backed so no good if you have other sound sources in the room, although they sound AWESOME) when I cant use the monitors if its late night or whatever.

Hey!  How do you like Logic?  I did my last album in GarageBand and it was just about at the limit of what it could do.  The full band is looking to do a record over the winter, and the drummer and I will be trading files back and forth so I'm scouting for a mac solution that can do simultaneous multi-tracking, and not start to get a bit weedy at 20 tracks or so.

 

[pabloman]

As an aside to the headphone deafness issue, make sure to get the DT 770 Pro 80's and not just the regular pro's. The 80 stands for 80 ohms as opposed to the standard 250 ohms. These will play louder. For me my ipod and Blackberry just don't go loud enough with my Klipsch or Ultimate in ears.

 

[swarfrat]

I've found using a seat shaker w/ headphones allows me to hear the bass MUCH better, and I don't have to crank the phones nearly as loud. It's night and day enough distance. Buttkicker is waay expensive, and no less clunky than buying Aura Pro's from Parts Express. You still need an amp and you still need to mount it to something. I'd pay the premium for it if it were a little more contained. Someone really needs to sell a $200 phone in, phone out, seat shaker / platform box.

 

[jimh]

I plan shortly to upgrade to some wireless sennheisers.  Just not sure which ones yet.

Yea, I was hoping to get some feedback on wireless headphones as well.  
It would sure be nice to not jack around with that cord.  
My only concern is sound quality related to signial loss  :dontknow:
If anyone has used them, please post...
Thanks to everyone for all the other tips.  Sounds like I just need to go down to GC and try a bunch.  
They seem to have a lot of the brand that have been mentioned.

I've got a set of wireless Senn's at home.  Dont remember the model number off the top of my head, but they are great.  Sound great, but not very loud, but thats not surprising seeing as the amp has to be battery powered and sit inside one of the ear pieces.

I use mine for recording with Logic on my Mac so I'm not confined by cables.  Then switch to my Grado's for mixing (open backed so no good if you have other sound sources in the room, although they sound AWESOME) when I cant use the monitors if its late night or whatever.

Hey!  How do you like Logic?  I did my last album in GarageBand and it was just about at the limit of what it could do.  The full band is looking to do a record over the winter, and the drummer and I will be trading files back and forth so I'm scouting for a mac solution that can do simultaneous multi-tracking, and not start to get a bit weedy at 20 tracks or so.

Hey Trevor.
Logic is great.  Nice and intuitive (In my opinion).  Very much like Pro-Tools if you know how to use that, but easier in terms of loading drivers for interfaces (Mac stuff tends to just work, whereas PC stuff need a lot more configuring.  I'm sure you know the score)

I run it on my iMac at home with a Mackie Onyx Satellite interface, and we have a Macbook Pro with it at work running with a Mackie Onyx 1640i Firewire mixer/interface.

Suffice to say, I like it.  PM for more info if you like.  :icon_thumright:

*Edit - Forgot to mention.  One of my tunes at home has over 40 tracks of audio (no midi) inlcuding plenty of plug-ins.  And the Macbook Pro with our 16input Mackie desk will record all 16 inputs at once with no trouble at all, although we record straight with no plug-ins.  We add any plug-ins afterwards in the mixing stage.

Hijack over
Cheers
Jim

 

[AGWAN]

Ahhh...

I remember my first apartment...

the girl behind me screamed about killing herself. at least once a week.

the guy above me sneezed ALL MORNING.

and the morbidly obese couple. next door... had sex. lots of really loud, gross sounding sex.... late into the evening/early morning.

WHERE DID THEY GET THE STAMINA. I mean... they ran out of breath walking the 30 feet from their car to the front door!

my revenge? I bought earplugs. and a really loud alarm clock. about 3 hours after they got quiet. I'd let the alarm clock run till morning. (like... 6 hours.)

the guy above me was old and deaf, and never heard it... the girl behind me was 4 walls separated.

the fatties left their lease about 7 months early.

I might be evil... I might be doing gods work.

the important thing is.

the next set of neighbors were quiet.
:evil4:

 

[m4rk0]

I had a certain mega million selling musician upstairs neighbor once who cried her self very loudly to sleep every night...
no to mention the trouble she caused me when her floor heating system leaked into my apartment!

 

[Soylent]

I had a certain mega million selling musician upstairs neighbor once who cried her self very loudly to sleep every night...
no to mention the trouble she caused me when her floor heating system leaked into my apartment!

Was it that ol' En-yer?

:laughing7:

 

[big bob]

If I was in your shoes I would talk with her upstairs neighbor and then both of you file complaints with the landlord.. That's just not cool..

 

[Soylent]

If I was in your shoes I would talk with her upstairs neighbor and then both of you file complaints with the landlord.. That's just not cool..

well this is when marko lived in ireland. He's a texan now.  :icon_thumright:

 

[baskruit]

I plan shortly to upgrade to some wireless sennheisers.  Just not sure which ones yet.

Yea, I was hoping to get some feedback on wireless headphones as well. 
It would sure be nice to not jack around with that cord. 
My only concern is sound quality related to signial loss  :dontknow:
If anyone has used them, please post...
Thanks to everyone for all the other tips.  Sounds like I just need to go down to GC and try a bunch. 
They seem to have a lot of the brand that have been mentioned.

I've got a set of wireless Senn's at home.  Dont remember the model number off the top of my head, but they are great.  Sound great, but not very loud, but thats not surprising seeing as the amp has to be battery powered and sit inside one of the ear pieces.

I use mine for recording with Logic on my Mac so I'm not confined by cables.  Then switch to my Grado's for mixing (open backed so no good if you have other sound sources in the room, although they sound AWESOME) when I cant use the monitors if its late night or whatever.

Hey!  How do you like Logic?  I did my last album in GarageBand and it was just about at the limit of what it could do.  The full band is looking to do a record over the winter, and the drummer and I will be trading files back and forth so I'm scouting for a mac solution that can do simultaneous multi-tracking, and not start to get a bit weedy at 20 tracks or so.

Try Reaper.
http://www.reaper.fm/
Highly recommended..