Headphones: neat but weird
 

My headphones are doing something kind of interesting... it plays the background music to songs but muffles the voices to the point of being barely heard in both ears
anyone know why it is doing it, though even with it messing up I just find it neat since I can actually listen to the background music to songs I like rather than just noticing the melody
and the nice muffled sound of the voice gives me an idea of where it is in the song =p

the voices sound like they are in a stadium in a far away field while the music sounds like it would normally does, in a good set of headphones

wonders if anyone else has had this before, I find it weird since this is the first time I have and never heard of headphones doing it, didn't know it could either

The ones I have in do that too, but the song I'm listening to might just have that affect.

yay not alone with goofy headphones =p
well only if you also consider it a neat thing ^-^

my headphones goofily started working properly after using them for an hour though and then later when I tried to use them again they went back to how they were before not sure if it was because I moved or not so will have to test it to see =p

maybe it's the EQ in the songs go on the computer/itunes then right click on the song to get info then to the options is the volume of the song (I crank mine to +100%) then there's an EQ and fix it (Mines on Treble booster)

I hope that helps.

Well, I don't have itunes I was playing music on youtube

is the headphones compadable with computer since some headphone aren't compadable with computers but are compadable with mp3

YouTube isn't the best place to listen to music unless you can pick out the good quality vids. I don't think it's the headphones. Try another video on Youtube and see if that issue doesn't stop.

I had a pair of headphones which did a similar thing when the jack broke. I had to only semi-insert the headphones jack in to get the vocals back.

Too much bass, maybe? That's pretty much what my speakers sound like when I crank up the bass. Until they blow out, that is.

Sounds like what happens when my earphone jack's half-out XD

yeah I know what you mean that will happen to me as well with normal headphones when it isn't completely in

yeah those old headphones eventually died, like yours NeonSynth
I have has ones which still give me some problems
but I figured them out
has new headphones that have a usb plug in so sometimes my computer doesn't accept it since I also have speakers for the newer computer
and will have to tell the computer what it needs to do
or it won't work goofy headphones

Mine have done that before its usually a lose connection or something

What you're hearing here is essentially equivalent to a "remove vocals" filter.

The left speaker and the right speaker have different sounds going to them -- that's why it's stereo -- but due to damage to the wires or an improperly connected plug, those signals are getting merged together. Things that are the same in both ears (the vocals) interfere with each other and cancel out, while things that aren't exactly centered (stuff that's not directly in front of the microphone when it was recorded) don't have the same signal on both sides so they don't cancel out as much.

As an additional side effect, this means that you're only getting mono sound. If you have a song that has pretty strong stereo separation, you'll hear exactly the same thing in both ears when this happens instead of hearing the stereo effects that you would normally hear.

Why yes, I DO work for a recording studio. :P