The Way You Monitor Affects Your Production a Lot

A note to more advanced podcast editors/producers: 

They way you monitor (or listen to) the audio you’re producing matters a lot. Whether you use headphones, earbuds or studio monitors, the quality and frequency response of those monitors makes a huge difference.

Monitoring your audio with no coloration from your headphones/speakers will ensure that your final mixes sound good to everyone everywhere. 

Every pair of headphones or speakers “colors” the sound to some degree by playing back the audio at a less-than-flat frequency response.

Reference 4 from Sonarworks removes unwanted coloration from your headphones/monitors and allows you to trust what you’re hearing so you can produce audio with confidence with your current setup. I use this for my monitors and headphones.

Morphit from ToneBoosters does a similar thing — headphones correction, simulation and personalization. 

Do you use an app to flatten out the frequency response of your monitors?

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