Headphones

[Scott7022]

Best ever headphones?

I have an uneducated opinion. Like any of my opinions are really that bloody educated!!

As I have been doing all this editing, adding LUTS and fixing color really for the hours and hours of footage I have been using the top of the line Sony MDR's, that came with my Black Magic editing board. For soundtrack that includes voices and music and effects they work really well. But I have a pair of Turtle Beach gamer headphones that have cut outs for my glasses and nice noise cancelation. I use them for long flights, how do people afford to fly children upfront!!!
For scenes in the film with just ambient sound, wind, wolves in the distance. These seem to reproduce "real sound", or perhaps as I remembered it better than the MDR's in spades!! With sound cancelation off. I switch between the two and then when the footage is corrected and i've done some sound tweaking in Fairlight, as it is part of DaVinci Resolve, the outcome is amazing on a friends 22.2 surround system. Kind of like 5.1 for rich Russian Oligarchs that say build the best.

So I think it depends on what you are listening to? I mix the audio for direction and levels and then switch to the Turtle Beach and add the ambient to the level I remember and finally balance them all using only level meters. Sounds awesome. Probably not doing it right...LOL! But I thinks it sounds great and the three times we had previews at the local theater it goes over well.