I've found that it's actually harder for me to concentrate on doing real work when I have high-end monitoring.
It almost always seems to come from snare drums. I'll be working away, not really paying attention to whatever random song comes on, and all of a sudden I'm like "Wow. The reverb on that snare is beautiful. I don't think that's digital -- it sounds like a real plate. And it's got so much attack. The compression is perfect. I bet that's an 1176. It's too fast to be an LA-2A, and too clean to be a Distressor".
And then I just have to know who mixed it. So I'll do a quick Google search, and find out that it was A.J. Mogis. And then I'll need to find some other record that he mixed and load it up on Rdio.
And this happens All. The. Time. when I use nice headphones.
With shitty earbuds, I basically have no idea what the fuck is happening, so I can kind of enjoy the music passively and actually get stuff done.
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I've found that it's actually harder for me to concentrate on doing real work when I have high-end monitoring.
It almost always seems to come from snare drums. I'll be working away, not really paying attention to whatever random song comes on, and all of a sudden I'm like "Wow. The reverb on that snare is beautiful. I don't think that's digital -- it sounds like a real plate. And it's got so much attack. The compression is perfect. I bet that's an 1176. It's too fast to be an LA-2A, and too clean to be a Distressor".
And then I just have to know who mixed it. So I'll do a quick Google search, and find out that it was A.J. Mogis. And then I'll need to find some other record that he mixed and load it up on Rdio.
And this happens All. The. Time. when I use nice headphones.
With shitty earbuds, I basically have no idea what the fuck is happening, so I can kind of enjoy the music passively and actually get stuff done.