Can I mix on headphones?
No. But in all seriousness, headphones can be a secret weapon and it really doesn’t matter what they sound like…
Over time, after constantly listening back to my work from different studios on those headphones I really started to learn them. They became sort of a compass. Wherever I went… It became a pattern for me to reference these headphones to see if what I was hearing was “right”…
I learned them, I knew them, I trusted them. It didn’t matter whether or not I loved them…
So, can you mix on headphones? Probably. I just think you really need to put some time into learning them first…
Mark Hornsby
Recording Magazine, March 2020