It can't possibly be perfect IRL, and it'll probably feel like your brain is being sucked out of your ears, but if you really cant live with the bleed, it might be worth a try. Theoretically if you approach the mic such that each of the two speakers is exactly the same distance from the mic the bleed will cancel completely. Something that might work if every other damn thing is just right and you're very lucky - monoize the headphone mix, and flip polarity on one side. If you can roll off some of that treble going to the headphones and still stand to sing to it, it will be less in the mic. Where headphone bleed can be a problem is in situations where you're laying a vocal over a basic click track that will be removed from the final track, or like a drummer listening to a 'beep track' which might bleed into some of the drum mics, or things like that where there wont be anything in the final to mask whatever's bleeding through.

Of course, that assumes that the mix that's bleeding from the headphones is relatively similar to what the final mix will be. If the difference is big enough, and unless you're really going to crush the vocal with insane amounts of compression or distort it, you shouldn't be able to hear the bleed in the context of the mix. The important question is what's the ratio of bleed to vocal? Like, give us some db readings off the meters, man! The vocal peaks at X and the bleed sits around Y. A50 microphone picking up sound from headset Jump to: Select a forum Off-Topic Discussion Introductions & Milestones Digital Marketplace Sports Forum Media Forum Vehicle Discussion Gaming Discussion Call of Duty Forum FIFA Forum Grand Theft Auto Forum PlayStation Forum Xbox Forum PC General Forum PC Building Forum PC Gaming Forum Graphics Forum. The warnings about hearing damage are well intentioned, but we're all adults here, and this is rock n roll (or whatever) and if loud headphones is what it takes to get a decent performance. Headphone bleed isn't really all that unusual, and it's usually not a huge deal. If you can't find a problem in routing and/or your headphones turn out to be ones that should be okay, I strongly suggest you book a hearing test through your GP to see if anything nasty is happening. The trouble is, this becomes an 'every decreasing circle' in that the more you turn up the volume to compensate for hearing problems, the more additional damage you're doing to your ears. In this age of iPods and ear buds, I've met huge numbers of young people who have pooched their hearing by their late teens or early twenties. which leads me to worry that (as others have said) the problem is a signal routing issue, not the 'phones) or that your monitoring levels are extremely high, certainly high enough to do permanent damage to your hearing.

However, unless your voice is very, very quiet, even the worst cheap closed back headphones can provide enough isolation that they're not picked up by a condenser mic.

Some closed back headphones provide more isolation than others, hence everyone asking what you use.

My mic is picking up sound from headset