So I made this song as the ultimate test to see if these dinky Creative's HQ-1400 (that's the model) really are better than my AKG 701's. Sure enough. Every system, every pair of headphones I've tried them on now - sounds AMAZING to my ears. It made mixing flippin dream-easy. I mean - I've mixed music for about a dozen years now and I've owned probably 4 different dedicated headphone amps (going to buy a new tube amp one from Antique SoundLabs) and owned at least half a dozen headphones that cost a grand or more (and heard headphones that cost over a thousand dollars...) right? I should have some clue when it comes to this stuff whether the instruments I'm very very used to using sound more/less balanced/flat and detailed when I check out a new reference, right? Every instrument I pulled up under these phones sounded more "flat" and accurate then I ever could remember. Not my AKG 141's, Sony 7506, AKG 701's, AKG 44s, Koss PRO4AAT, Koss PRO4A, Fostex T50RP's, 50mm huge Aiwa's, sounded near them.
Fine. You might hate the song. But I am just going to stick with my opinion that the mixing sounds better/more refined than anything else that I've EVER put together. Seriously. Go ahead and just check through some of my other songs or compare this to a commercial track. I compared this (I'm ONLY talking about the mixing here, not songwriting style) to how Nickelback, Kelly Clarkson, Ludacris, countless rock bands and other acts sounded by now and honestly - I was a little taken aback... it felt like I was no longer missing that "something", you know? Just buy them. I feel this is just like when the Yamaha NS10 speakers with very-specialized wood-plup drivers were put out on the market (they were just hi-fi speakers!) and now they are in every studio! I'm totally not retarded or lying to you about this though. There would be no reason for me to do this otherwise. Anyway...