Roland Headphones

The Roland RH A7 headphones I purchased a while back when I was in search of a cheaper pair of studio headphones. I didn’t purchase them to really master my music in just more to listen to my music in while creating it because recording and mixing at home I cant play the music outloud on my monitors much because of my family and I don’t want to wake them because I do music late a lot. But after using them more and more I really got to understand them, just meaning that I really became familiar with the sound that they produced. So I ended up doing some mastering in them which is something I never do. I never master in headphones just because headphones are good for that to me. But I was just so comfortable with the sound in these that I started mastering in them. They provided a good master, not the “best” that I have every done but I need to get a good sample master to send off to some of my friends they will do the trick. Some of the low end can get a little mushy on them though and it was difficult to monitor just how much low end I should cut out of the master channel. But all in all I was satisfied with what they did for me. For a decent price that I was able to get this at I really couldn’t ask for much more. I have never really used them for anything but creating my own music so I can tell what they are like listening to music from an mp3 player. But im sure they will still give a good sound, they also get pretty loud almost too loud and at my age I don’t want to push my ear drums to the limit! I never really took them to the max and don’t plan on it.

These are a pair of noise-canceling headphones from Roland. These headphones cancel all external noise. They do this is with a tiny microphone on the outside of the headphones, which records the sounds that are heard, and then plays them back at a 180 degree angle, which effectively cancels the noise out due to phasing. This really only works with noises that are constant, such as wind, traffic, airplane turbines, and fans/AC. A car horn isn't going to get canceled out, for instance. When these headphones have the noise canceling turned on, they sound pretty great. They have a pretty solid bass response for headphones of their size, a response that I was very impressed with. The frequencies are well-rounded. However, when the headphones run out of battery power, which can be often if you aren't careful, they don't sound nearly as good. In fact, they are pretty weak at that point. Definitely make it a point to always have the batteries in and as fresh as possible. This can eventually rack up quite an expense in terms of batteries. They are not really ideal for studio use, as they aren't exactly equipped to handle the un mastered, rough tracks that come through a DAW. They also aren't capable of providing isolation when there's other instruments going on, so they really aren't that effective in this capacity. The biggest complaint I've had with these headphones is that they break easily. They have a cool collapsible structure that makes them fit in small places, unfortunately the plastic isn't hard enough to withstand much pressure at all. Be very careful with them or you'll regret it. While these are a decent price, and do sound good when everything is going swimmingly, there's a lot of problems with them. Enjoy at your own risk and be very very careful with them, they aren’t cheap enough to keep replacing.