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When to use and not use headphones

When to use and not use headphones

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When to use and not use headphones

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- Now Sheryl I think it's a temptation when you own a nice set of headphones to kind of just want to use them all the time. You know what I'm saying? - Right, Absolutely. - And that's really not the case. I mean there are situations when headphones are sort of apropos, situations in the field and that kind of stuff, but there are situations when they are not. In your opinion when do I want to use headphones? - When you're in the field and you must wear headphones at all times so that you can hear with the microphones what's going to disk, and in different sound location people will use different types of headphones by their taste. There's really no golden rule. - Well I mean the general rule of thumb there is the reason that they use headphones is to be isolated from the rest of the set and the rest of the noise that's going on. You bring up an interesting point, because some location audio people want to use sort of the most isolating headphones they can find, right? - Right. - So…

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