Headphones Aren't Stereo

 

I use headphones all the time now. Rarely use speakers. 

My tiny music studio isn't acoustically treated as it is just too small. The same size as the walk in closet next to it. I mostly mix on headphones working their too, using SPAN set to mastering, and check on speakers a little. I almost don't drive now, so don't have a car I know well to check a mix in either.

I use headphones to listen to music all the time. Have a small stereo, with some Yamaha tower speakers, but it just makes too big a sound for general listening. So headphones it is. AKG-702 in the studio, and JBL earbuds or SHOKZ OpenFit out and about.

So am very aware that headphones aren't stereo. I also have a long time interest in binaural sound and how that sounds so much more interesting that standard stereo on headphones. Have a few VSTs to use headphones for monitoring in the studio. JB ISONE PRO and dearVR MIX among them.  

The piece of music here is just something I came up with after doing some refinement to the NUT slots on my 7 string Ibanez guitar. A sticky nut makes tuning really tedious, and this was done during the, is it easier to tune now? testing.  

Then did the binaural mix, and came back and did the crosstalk version to make this demo on headphones. There is also a SHORT version on YouTube.

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