Hi Everyone, I have a question about which headphones 🎧 to purchase for mixing? And which headphones 🎧 to purchase for mastering? I had a pair of HD 280 Pro (Sennheiser). The headphones started crumbling. I prefer not to buy another pair and they were very tight on my ears. Thank you, Miss Shawn

Hello all. I have limited budget so I am trying to get creative with what I have available. I started this post with all the background information but it took 20 minutes to read, so I am dialing back and will add context as needed. I have a friend who wants to play drums on a song I am currently writing (my first ever!). I dont have a place to record them of the right gear. I will start this post just talking about the overheads as they are the part I am most in the air about. The options I have available are either wildly different condensers (Rode NT1A [LDC] and a Shure Beta 87 [SDC]) or a pair of Audix OM6 dynamic vocal mics. Originally I was going to put the NT1A and the Beta 87 as the OH mics since those are the only condensers I have access to. I am now rethinking that. I KNOW this isn't ideal, but I am thinking of using the Audix OM6 dynamic mics as overheads instead. This may suck as an idea, but here is my reasoning... Whatever room we record in is going to be crap. These hyper cardioid dynamics can be moved to a distance that hopefully points to all the cymbals and elements that it needs to pick up while maybe rejecting a lot of the room sound. Their freq response is 40Hz-19kHz so I may have to try things to get some of that air back. I will start a new comment for my ideas on that, if this method seems ok. If you had to choose, which would you go with? Thanks!

what motivates you to do music in this era of the untalented instant prompt generation

If you never resonated with it yourself, when you were creating it? Find a way to breathe human life into your music. Do vocal takes with intention. Create a mood in the room. Capture samples from your outside world with a crappy tape recorder and splice them in the track. Capture moods you are truly in at that moment. Capture moments with people grooving together in the same room, never underestimate the power of humans grooving together in the same room. Move real air. Capture memorable moments - good bad ugly sad angry and all in between. Make lyrics that mean something to you, remind you of moments in time, or of people, specific things, does not matter if the listener knows what you are even talking about, they will paint their own picture. Scrapbook your life in your song. This is the stuff that will breathe life into your music and make it unique - not copy / pasting one guitar line to repeat 82 other times, not using AI to write your entire song. I get it, AI is a useful tool - I'm not saying to never use it, and I also understand not every piece of music is meant to be from the heart or meant to matter that much - sometimes its just business and thats what it is that day, and thats fun too, and even then this is relevant to some degree. But if you are trying to make music that resonates with people, make it resonate with yourself first. Make it hold memories of your life, of interactions with other people, like a photo album would. Record unique moments and relationships and human errors and vulnerability that cannot be replicated by a machine. That's what will set your song apart and make it translate. That's what will help your song mean something to you. This doesn't have to be done dramatically either, it can be done to varying degrees. Even just sprinkling a bit of this in goes a long way.

Ableton Live or FL? PT or Logic? Audition or Audacity?