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  • In ear monitors and mixing question
2017/12/16 17:01:33
Sixfinger
Any thoughts on how good the high end ($1000 range) would fair in mixing.
 
I need to get a set for live performance, and if they could do double duty going more high end might be worth it?
2017/12/16 18:08:06
bitflipper
I've never tried anything that high end, just the generic (not custom-molded) IEMs that sell for < $300. I've gone through three pairs over the years (they break easily).
 
I like them a lot as an alternate,  rather than a primary, reference. But that's because they sound so different from my speakers. Different enough to sometimes identify weaknesses in a mix, hence their value as a secondary sanity check.
 
However, my experience was that IEMs suffer the same problem as most headphones: their nonlinear compression tends to make everything sound better, making them an untrustworthy standard. A mix that sounded just fine on the IEMs would often not translate well to other speakers, or even to headphones. By contrast, if it sounds good on my speakers I can be confident that it'll sound good anywhere.
 
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