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Kai was taken posted:The major free software suite is Audacity (or Garageband on OSX) They aren't really comparable, Audacity is more of a sound editor/recorder (think glorified tape deck) and isn't geared towards writing music, whereas Garageband actually is a compositional tool. Reaper, for example, instead of Audacity is a bit more appropriate a comparison and probably more useful for the purpose of the thread.
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That could be a lot of things, do you use a proper soundcard or just the one built into your computer? Have you tried another set of headphones with your computer? Do you have the same problem if you use the headphones on other devices, like an mp3 player for instance? It could be that the bass starts rolling off above 125 on those cans, which is fairly common on consumer level headphones, so you won't get a solid reproduction below that. If that's the case you'd probably be better off with some reference quality headphones. In fact, I'd look at that if you're in any way serious anyway, as a good set of cans will definitely be worth the investment in the long term. Otherwise, your sound card might not be up to scratch, especially if you just use your built in one. Some are fine for general use but I've used some with absolutely woeful sound quality in the past, and some are just rubbish at driving headphones all together. You might have to shell out for a new card, which might not be a bad idea if you haven't got one anyway. Beyond that you might be experiencing masking. That generally happens when you have harmonically similar material playing at the same time, especially with complex sounds - that is anything with more harmonics than a sine wave. Basically you tend to hear more of whatever sound has a more harmonically rich sound, and the simpler stuff, particularly low frequencies, doesn't get reproduced in your head as well. Consumer quality headphones can make this worse by muddying up the sound - the drivers don't move as fast so you lose detail in the reproduction. It's probably more to do with one of the previous two points though.
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