Perceived pitch differences between Headphones and nearfield

alexis · March 7, 2011, 6:15pm

Steve Fogal:

I’m a greenhorn but yeah, with my limited vocal range and capabilties I HAVE to comp for a BEST OF to get a performance that I feel is ‘not horrible’ …this includes even being a little obsessive. While I would think it’s generally best to do entire phrases when comping for the reasons above, I wouldn’t think that’s entirely in stone per say…I think it just requires a little more effort in properly identifying how well edited words in a phrases work comp’d together. Often when I do several vocal takes, say 11 takes on the same pass, some parts aren’t very different at all, just better and therefore work very well…though sometimes I choose piece that I find give me issues…mainly in situations where I did several chokes on a take and only have 1 or 2 usable one’s. In this case I may have minor transitional pitch issues creeping up on me…among others.

And back closer to topic, again…working on all this, going between my nearfields and headphones I’m finding my perception of pitch whacked…and so thought it was make for an interesting topic.

Consistent change in pitch between the two, or any which way on any given comparison?

How much of a pitch change? Could you play some sine wave pitches out, and use a guitar tuner to see how much?

Very interesting - nice pickup!