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Is anyone (happy with) using wireless noise-canceling headphones/earplugs for audio production? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Heya! I’m thinking about purchasing wireless noise-canceling earplugs (e.g. the Sony WF-1000XM4 or Apple AirPods Pro), mostly for listening to music on the go. But I was also wondering whether there are any issues (aside from the latency one) when it comes to making music on the go with these headphones? I assume it’s generally possible to configure Ableton Live to use those Bluetooth headphones instead of the internal audio card? And there’s most probably a quite high latency, but I would probably be fine with that (at least in most mobile music production situations where I would just use the internal audio card of the MacBook Pro). Anyway, would love to hear experiences from people who did this!

Edit: I’m currently using Audio-Technica ATH-M50 X (mostly at home) and Shure SE-215 (mostly on the go). So especially with regards to the Shure earplugs I’m probably quite used to not having a super neutral listening experience already.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have WH-1000XM3's which I've used in public or hotels. The main caveat I found is that I lose a lot of detail in mid-high frequencies. So I wouldn't rely on them over a good pair of monitors/reference headphones and do anything too serious... but using them as a tool in a hotel/public space to get ideas down is definitely better than not having anything.

[–] Ehrin_CB 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://autoeq.app/

You should look and see if there's an AutoEQ patch for them. Might be able to even out the response curve to something much more usable!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting to hear about the mid-high frequencies. But I guess it makes sense that they’re not very neutral, considering they’re made for hifi listening and not producing/mixing music. I’m currently using the Shure SE215 which are also rather made for monitoring and hifi needs. So, I probably won’t have a huge issue with the earplugs not being super neutral.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

They’re not only not neutral, but actively interfering with the signal (as long as they do active noise cancelling of course). But yeah, better than nothing still.