Headphones for practice...

[wilkinsi]

I use BD DT100 headphones. They're standard in most studios.

[Cygnus X1]

Wrong thread?

Parallel Universe.
Worst part is, I found the thread he was trying to post in.

(Fender Champ 600).

[Incster]

AKG 240 Studio

I would recommend the headphones used in recording studios for monitoring and mixing, like the AKG 240 series. The high end phones like the AKG 501 sound fantastic, but they are geared towards the wide dynamics and broad spectrum of classical music - bang per buck decreases if you just use them for the POD.

For some unfathomable reasons I use a Bose Tri-Port for my POD (just too lazy to unplug the 240 from my stereo). They are OK, but the Bose colors the sound a bit and in direct A/B comparison the 240 wins by a large margin.

Remember, guitar amplifiers and cheap headphones are lowpass filters (you turned off speaker compensation, right?), if you hear harshness with good phones, it is really there and you have to correct your tone settings.

[DonP]

Thanks Don...I'd appreciate that...

My Sony's are MDR-V150.

No idea of how these compare to others, but they sound good, which is all that matters to me.

[sevser]

Thanks guys...I ended up getting the ones with the broadest dynamic range I could find...Not hi end but 10x better...Made all the differance. Panasonic RP-HTX7...Very basic head set but does the trick! I think the narrow dynamic range headphones just compressed the sound and that is what was creating the harsh high end...I noticed most have all the upper range you could want...it was finding ones with the low end...