David: Veering slightly away from your question, I've had good results using the old style open or semi-open earphones - something along the lines of the AKG K240. They give you good recorded sound AND allow ambient sounds (i.e. your horn) to be heard. They're more pricey than the earbuds, but they have been used for years by studios and home stereo listeners, so you might find a pair to try. I haven't tried these with an iPod or other mp3 player, but an adapter would be required, and it's possible that the player wouldn't be able to drive them adequately.
FWIW, YMMV. Good luck, Jake At 03:13 PM 1/31/2010, you wrote: >I used to write here about the joys of playing along with song >collection books that have piano or orchestra accompaniment on CD. I >mp3'd some of these accompaniments for portability. Lately, I began to >use them with noise-isolating earbuds, so as to not fill up my house >with loud piano playing, only loud horn playing. > >These earbuds (Scosche, pretty good quality) eliminate most of the horn >sound, so the volume setting for the accompaniment doesn't have to be so >high. But the timbre of the horn seems very much stripped down - I might >as well be playing a tin can. This simplified sound though makes it >easier to hear certain qualities other than stunning lush tone <humor>, >like intonation and quality of entrances. The experience is a little >like wearing earplugs when you have to play in a dangerously loud >environment, except for the accompaniment sound that you want to come >through. > >Has anyone here experimented with this kind of isolation, find it >useful, unuseful? > >David G. > > >_______________________________________________ >post: [email protected] >unsubscribe or set options at >https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/jbewalt%40iastate.edu _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
