Thanks all - interesting to see people’s opinions and ideas. I’m really surprised to hear that others aren’t doing this as part of their normal every day techniques.
If you were to go to a random studio to record solo instrumental, the engineer wouldn’t put the mics in place, run back to the control room, hit record, then stop and listen back, only to come running back in to the live room to move the mics and repeat the process. No chance. He would simply place his ears in front of you while you played to find “the sweet spot” and place the mics there - boom. That’s all this is, just using the closed back to prevent the bleed. You are being both engineer and player and making decisions in real time.
It’s incredibly revealing - just a shortcut to eliminate the “clearly bad” quicker. It’s clear and obvious even in bad closed back headphones, “This mic position is awful! Too XYZ” (boomy/tinny/string noise/etc). When you start using better phones, they get a little closer to open backs.
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