Start Your DJ Headphones Search By Choosing A Good Brand

By starting off with a quality headphone brand, you’ll take out a great deal of annoyance. The company will basically affect the quality of your DJ Headphones, the length of time they’ll last, and the customer service you’ll get in case your headphones break.

My two favorite headphones producers are Shure and Bose.

Shure is a music industry leader, more renowned for their microphones than their headphones (though the identical sound and precision can be seen in both). I have yet to meet a professional audio engineer who didn't havean on hand armory of Shure microphones, and just about any venue worth it’s salt probably has at leasta handful SM58 mics on the stage.

Shure is famous for its manufacturing quality, and its headphones reflect that. My very first set of headphones was Shure's SRH 440s, and they continue to sound fantastic and are in great shape.

Bose is more geared towards high end consumer audio systems, but they have contributed some remarkable ideas to the professional audio scene. Their headphones line boasts some phenomenal noise canceling capabilities. As an example, the Bose QuietComfort 15 Acoustic Noise Cancelling Headphonesare so good at sound canceling that you can put them on and play drums with a track, while keeping the volume very low.

Bose headphones will usually start out in a noticeably higher price range when compared to Shure, though based on your circumstances they may be quite worth it. But how do you determine the amount of money to invest in your headphones? Well, that depends upon the things you need your headphones to be able to do. It's not difficult to get a set of great sounding headphones for around $50, but they will very likely be shaky as far as frequency response goes. This means that rather than you hearing a track just exactly as it was recorded (with all the highs, lows, and mids at the proper volumes) headphones with imperfect frequency response may boost or reduce some frequencies.

This turns into a problem when you're dealing with audio production on a professional level. Mixing a track while using inaccurate headphones can be terrible, because you will have no idea how the song really sounds. You may think you have got the bass at an acceptable level, but when you play the song on another set of headphones or speakers you realize that there is barely any bass at all, because your headphones were boosting the bass signal without you realizing it.

So do you really need to look for extremely precise, high priced headphones?