Most importantly though, your mixes will translate much better using these. After using them for the past 6 months, I can say that I have reached to turn down my speakers at many points only to realize they aren’t on. This is partly achieved by using little bass ports on the headphones that serve to kind of stimulate your hairs which gives you a sensation of experiencing low end. The psychoacoustic tricks employed by the team at Slate Audio work surprisingly well here. The headphones essentially try to trick your brain into thinking you’re in a room experiencing how that particular space sounds. VSX aims to solve these problems by essentially using impulse responses to emulate what a room with certain speakers sounds like. Mixing on normal headphones can also give us inaccurate stereo imaging information and wreak havoc on our low end. We can get used to our rooms for sure, but we cannot take our rooms with us everywhere we go. Even if they have a less than optimal listening environment – and let’s face it, almost everyone’s room is flawed.Īcross the board, most of our rooms are imperfect and we don’t all have the same monitors. I highly suggest these to anyone that is obsessed with taking their mixing to the next level. Since the last time I did a Slate VSX Review on my own personal site, a lot has changed – all of it for the better.Īlong with the initial concerns of the materials used in some runs of the headphones (approximately 3% of the first run used the wrong material for the headbands), other issues have been addressed, new models are being added, and the team at Slate has been very quick on replacing the defective units. The Steven Slate Audio VSX Modeling Headphone System is advertised as a headphone plugin combo that can substitute a properly treated studio environment by modeling studio monitors like various near, mid, and far-field monitors, various headphones, and even the rooms some of these pieces of gear can be found in. There is always a ton of hype for most of Steven Slate’s products and the Slate Audio VSX Headphones are no different. While they may not be for everyone, they are certainly worth considering picking up for the price. Over the course of a few months, I’ve discovered so much more about mixing thanks in part to these headphones. When I first picked up these headphones, I was simply just trying to improve my monitoring situation. I have been a user of Slate Audio as well as Slate Digital’s products for a very long time, and with this review, I want to help steer both budding and experienced engineers on the right path.
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