(Part 3) Top products from r/dubstep

These headphones Sennheiser HD 202 are great. Super comfortable and sound quality is awesome. They are a little more bass heavy but if you don't mind it then its cool. These are what I take whenever I go out, for 20$ I dont have to worry too much about them taking a beating. They have gotten a little bit looser over time when I compared them to a brand new pair. But without comparing them, they still fit snug with no complaints. Once these go out, I would buy another pair for my casually on the go listening.

I use these at gigs and when I'm at home and really want quality (Ultrasone DJ1 Pro). These are really really awesome in sound quality aspect. But that comes with a price, 150$. Unlike the above 202's these are heavier and more bulky so I don't take them on the go for casual listening. But when I'm at home or at a show they are great. The only downside is that they are pretty damn big. They don't fit as snug as the 202's but it is a different type of fit. The 202's land on top of my ears and these completely surround your ears. If I bob my head too much they might slip off. Sound wise, they sound great. They are more flat on the spectrum so I believe they have higher fidelity and sound closer to what the original mastered tracked was intended to be.

Those are the two main headphones I can really speak for by having owned them for some time now. They are both great for their prices but have different uses. Liek you said if you dont care about bulky and want quality sound, the DJI pros are the way to go. There are also DJ1s but I believe those emphasize the bass more, like the 202s, which isn't really a good thing (depending what you want). I believe the producer masters a track to what he thinks sounds best at and what it's suppose to be heard at. When you start getting too much of a certain frequency, it will throw the balance off on the song and what is was intended to be heard at. But if your a "I love bass/give me more" type of guy, what ever floats your boat and ears.Stay away from in ear headphones. Stay away from Bose/Skullcandy/Beats/Dre. Sennheisser is a quality brand. There are many good headphones out there, these are the two I can speak for.

Edit: To add to the DJ1 pros, the speakers inside are angled at a certain way to work with the acoustics in your ears. I don't know exactly how this works with the acoustics, but the speaker inside the headphone isnt just pointing straight foward into your ear like most headphones.

If you can save up get this. http://www.amazon.com/BIC-America-F12-475-Watt-Subwoofer/dp/B0015A8Y5M/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1334285971&sr=8-7. I have it myself and it shakes my house. Completely amazing with Dubstep.

Z2300's are all you need.

I fucking love my set.. nothing louder on the market.. No sub hits notes so smoothly without that fucking rattle. They just got discontinued, making a cheaper set for more expensive now..get them while you can
here.

TL;DR THX CERTIFIED. THAT IS ALL

They've employed a good marketing strategy. They're essentially making the Bose TriPorts of the pseudo-hip poseur crowd. Just like Bose, these Beats headphones are for people who don't have the least bit of knowledge of the hi-fi audio market.

If Dre actually uses these headphones in the studio, then he needs to fire his engineer. They're horribly unbalanced and don't even make a sincere effort to reproduce the audio being fed to them with fidelity. They are intentionally manufactured to heighten the lower and higher frequencies in the mix, furthering the EQ bell-curve most modern pop music already possess.

If you do your research and then determine that these pieces of shit are the best choice for your money, then you are a sincere idiot. Dre's marketing crew knows that young people with too much unearned money and a fashionable-nonconformist interest in music production have the money necessary to carry out such idiotic purchases.

And yes, I have listened to them. I tried them on at a Best Buy, immediately looked at the price tag, and promptly NOPE'd them back to the display shelf.

EDIT: Another poster said these headphones have 'massive' bass. I'm sorry, but this is untrue. Check out the Beyerdynamic DT-770 (nicknamed the "Darth Beyers") if you want really superb bass response. These stupid Dre headphones produce mud, not bass.

I mean, I generally use mediafire, which is horrendous for my computer I'm sure. Albums to download: Fabriclive .37 (really a good mix of bassline focused, as well as more ambient dub), Joker's mix for Mary Anne Hobbs (best link I could find, sorry), Dubstep Allstars Vol 4 , Dubstep Allstars Vol 5. I'll message you with more if you want me to.

You're treading in very dangerous waters asking about headphones. In all honesty, you don't need to spend more then $100 for a nice pair of headphones.

That being said. I have 2 pairs of these... They have served me well for many years.

http://www.amazon.com/Sennheiser-HD555-Professional-Headphones-Channeling/dp/B0001FTVDQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1313951179&sr=8-1

In an ideal world...

im very pleased with these
they can be had for around $30-$40 on ebay.

If you're looking for a cheap midi controller to control volumes and EQs inside of ableton, you might want to consider the m-audio x-session pro.

http://www.amazon.com/M-Audio-X-Session-Midi-MixerController/dp/B000MJ2LTW

Personally, I don't have any experience with the thing, so I couldn't tell you much more about it.

Unrelated if you don't mind me asking, I'm curious to know how and why you use ableton to mix tracks rather than other dj software.

>buy some disposable ear plugs before you get to the event for next to free.

Disposable ear plugs? No.

Get yourself some reusable musician ear plugs, a la: linky

For annoying the neighbors I have a Logitech Z-5500 5.1 system, this thing makes the entire apartment rattle. For keeping things quieter I have a Sennheiser HD 280 pro and HD 598, both wonderful headphones.

• Skream - Skream!
  
• Kryptic Minds - One of Us
  
• Burial - Untrue
  
• Digital Mystikz - Return II Space
  
• Deep Medi Musik releases Volume 1-3
  
• Dubstep Allstars volumes 2, 4 and 8 {my personal favourites}
  
• Rustie - Glass Swords
  
• Silkie - City Limits 2
  
  etc
  there's loads more but they should get you started

I prefeer these ones.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0007XJOLG/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?qid=1396780848&sr=8-4&pi=AC_SX110_SY165_QL70

Those are.

He was using a Pressure sprayer, you fill this up with 60% paint 40% water, you can make it more watered down.

Ultrasone Pro 900s

i just threw up a little.

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