Headphone calibration with just reverb?!

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This is a breakthrough method for headphone calibration using IR responses for the Harman Target Curve, all by using the tools built into Ableton Live!

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Many folks don't have access to acoustically treated studios and commonly use Headphones to avoid acoustical issues in their home studios. When we listen to headphones we dont hear the audio in the same way we do when we hear sounds coming at us in rooms. Due to this phenomenon, much research has been done by Harman to try to come up with an agreed upon frequency response curve target that gives us the experience of listening to flat speakers in a treated studio might be like. Furthermore there is an awesome github site that has a huge collection of free IR waveforms that you can place in a convolution reverb and calibrate your headphones to the Harman target curve for free! Here I use Ableton Hybrid Reverb to do this.

00:00 - Intro
2:13 - Why EQ Headphones?
3:40 - What is the Harman Curve?
6:45 - EQ Headphones with Reverb!?
9:10 - How to do it.
13:05 - Final Thoughts

[NexxuSix]

To simply say “Thank you!” Doesn’t do this video enough justice! I experimented with my headphone profile (Sennheiser HD 280 Pro) and could tell there was quite a difference when the Hybrid Reverb was turned on and off. This is truly helpful! Thank you!

[scottmyers]

to monitor through headphone correction I make an audio effect rack last on the master, create two chains - one chain that goes straight to master out (hardware 1/2 for me) and one with headphone correction that then uses Ableton external audio effect to route the corrected chain out of a different hardware output (hardware 7/8 for me) with no "audio from" input. A little convoluted but only needs set up once and makes it so you don't have to worry about bypassing the correction before bouncing. awesome tip, going to try out this instead of EQ.

[iTsTRADAM]

This video and channel are extremely underratted! Thank you so much for all the advice and tips you provide. This calibration alone is gonna help me tremendously!

[LOLCoolJ]

This is very good and useful.

I would add: If the user's choice of correction includes boosts rather than just cuts, it would be wise to decrease the overall volume level to compensate for whatever the highest boost may be. So if your highest boost is a low shelf of +3db, the over all level should be reduced by 3db.

I hope you and your family are doing well. :)

[DavidAsh]

Thank you, Anthony. Blessings to you and the family.

[flyoverfredusa]

best music production channel bar none

[Mortadella]

wow, worlds collide!! I can't say I'm not surprised that my favorite ableton youtuber is also a github user!! (I'm a software dev. and a beginner wub wub ableton learner.) you are salt of the earth, man.

[moosey]

Great presentation mate, thanks a lot. I'll be on this tonight.

[Horizontedesucesos_]

Your channel is the best, man. I'm going to try this tonight (if I can find my headphones there). 🙌🏻

[Bthelick]

regardless of frequency content, the issue is still that headphones aren't stereo. You still need to add back in some interaural time differences to get near the benefits of speaker judgements.

[ChrisG-nf]

Love your videos man. This ones awesome, great explanations.

[WindMakesWaves]

Awesome video! I recently heard about the Harman Curve and have been meaning to learn more! Thanks!

[thomaslthomas]

After a bit of hair pulling got this to fly on my 240's Which are all the headphones in my room.
I have 2 outputs on my interface that are stereo mixes for phones. So I set up a sub out in Ableton and sent to each of the headphone feeds and bypassed the master to headphones. Viola no forgetting to turn on plugin for mixdown.
Then made a template for all new files being created in Ableton pretty slick.
Only works if you have at least 2 discreet stereo outs on your interface though.

[nicoincertezza]

hey teach, great useful information once again. thank you!

[lzcim]

Tip: use soundsource (mac) dunno if them have win version, so you can open any vst and do the calibration outside your daw, you will not have the problem of have to turn off when exportin and the calibration will effect every sound played in your pc, witch I think's the best cuz you have to adapt to this curve. Also use "Ghz can open 3: Mix enginer" preset at the end to help w/ "interaural time differences".

[SoumitraChakravarti]

I have been using IR in Space Designer to fix headphones for a few years, was kinda my secret cool thing that I would share with clients :P

[incantic]

Awesome. This makes perfect sense as an eq curve and an impulse are the exact same thing just transformed differently mathematically. I have my eq curve in sound source. I also use a plugin called can opener to do the cross talk which helps amazingly with mixing stereo in the lower frequencies. I like the sound source + can opener approach because it works outside of my daw so I never have any chance of exporting a project with an eq curve on it. I lost the link but you can actually find crosstalk impulses as well and add that to your chain.

[WillCarlotto]

Awesome video. I don't make beats nor use Ableton, but your video was so useful. And I'm looking foward for the "free solution for crosstalk issues" that you mentioned.

[nsjx]

Stellar tip. I gotta trycthis and compare it to my existing Sonarworks Ref4 calibrated hd650s. Been using this setup for over a decade with CanOpener for crosstalk. GoodHertz has some great articles on the x-talk topic. What you say in the end is important to remember. Onw can do just fine if one knows the usual deficiencies of one's room or monitors. It really helps to analyze similar prof produced music to see how stuff translates in your own equipment. Anyway, thanks for the great thoroughly explained tip. I learned something.

[yvancarbuccia]

what if i cant find my headphones in the database?