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fully reassembled, no damage as far as I can tell, everything seems to workpic.twitter.com/00KFjjYdYF
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There are two sets of headphones because they're for different purposes and sound different. Sony MDRV6 are closed-back, so they're for monitoring while recording. Open-back headphones bleed sound and would be picked up by the mic, causing feedback or other undesirable effects.
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AKG K 240 are open-back and sound very different from the Sony. The Sonys are very harsh in the high end with a weak low-end; AKGs are the opposite. So I use both as reference points when mastering. AKG tells me if there's too much bass; Sony tells me if there's too much high.
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This is sort of like keeping a cheap boom box (or, today, a phone) in the mastering suite to make sure the audio doesn't sound terrible on the awful devices we actually use. I don't do that though; just the two headphones.
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By the way, both of those headphone models are about $70 new. This isn't fancy gear.
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Did you feel claustrophobic in the beginning when you started working inside the box?
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No, it's not bad. You kind of forget that it's right when you're sitting because there's enough room to use a computer comfortably. But the total lack of echo is kind of disconcerting because we're so used to echoey environments.
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s/right/tight
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I’m here for this booth thread
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it's a very quiet thread
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How much did it run you??
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About $10k shipped from Spain. Another $1k or so to cover the walls in GIK bass traps.
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Serious question: how do you stay cool in there? What's the longest you could comfortably work in that booth?
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There's a ventilator fan. I keep it on a very low setting so it's barely audible. It tends to hit 25 degrees after an hour or so, which is about as long as I'm ever in it.
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It is indeed "barely audible". I've never noticed it!
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Thank you for answering the question before 8 felt like an idiot for asking.
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