Mastering with Headphones | Are You Listening? Season 3, Episode 1

Are You Listening? is back! In episode one of season three, follow along as iZotope Education Director and professional mastering engineer Jonathan Wyner shares how to navigate the challenges —and benefits—of mastering with headphones, including considerations in headphone outputs and impedance ratings when mastering, common fallacies with mastering in headphones, and the tools to use when mastering in headphones to preserve the sonic translation from mix to master across playback systems.

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Chapters
0:00 Welcome to Are You Listening Season 3
0:23 What is the difference between mastering in headphones vs. speakers?
1:37 Why work in headphones?
2:45 Headphone connectors and outputs
3:30 Headphone impedance rating
4:12 Examples of headphones to use or avoid in mastering
5:58 Importance of listening at a consistent playback level in headphones
7:12 Fallacies with mastering in headphones
8:57 Tools to use when mastering in headphones
9:06 Using Tonal Balance Control Pro curves
10:50 Frequency soloing in Ozone Pro to understand low end
12:04 Stereo imaging with Insight Pro
14:26 Benefits of using headphones in mastering
16:53 Outro

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