Headphone monitors

[maxwellm]

Hey folks. Just starting my adventures in home recording, been using a pair of noise-cancelling headphones as monitors. Which have been fine, mostly, but I've noticed that I can get them to clip pretty easily (even when the line into the recording unit is *not* clipping), and it's getting distracting. Does anyone have any recommendations on headphones with a wide enough range to handle monitoring duties?

I can keep using these, but would really rather not, and it is nice to be able to cut loose without waking up my wife and kids after 11 at night.

Ah, family life.

[rfurtkamp]

Been using Sennheiser 280s for a long long time, had some Sony pro things before that.

I'm very very happy with the Sennheisers, and have been using them long enough I know what they sound like compared to my other reference stuff so it's not a constant 'check the mix here, go check the mix in the car, etc.' like it was when I was younger.

TL;DR: find something decent, ignore noise-cancelling stuff - that's consumer-traveller stuff - and spend lots of time with it. High end Sony, Sennheiser, AKG come straight to mind.

[GardenoftheDead]

Sennheiser and AKG are what you want. But keep in mind that for studio quality headphones, you're kidding yourself if you think you're spending less than $250.

[maxwellm]

Naw, I just wanted something that wasn't breaking up every time I threw low frequencies at it. Wasn't expecting these to be the solution, just what I had at hand.

Thanks for the recs.