RE: Getting started with music production
Wow, first of all, thanks for reading through it and sharing your opinions!
I totally agree a producer needs both headphones and monitors to get tracks sounding right!
However, this specific guide is for people who have zero experience, so I'd rather have people start out with a good pair of headphones and see how they like messing around with it. I've seen too many people invest thousands into a crazy setup, only to sell it for half the price a few months later because they realized it's not their thing.. Of course, buying a lower budget set of speakers is always an option too.
Your final point regarding salesmen is very true, which is why I would advise people to do their research online before ordering anything. Plenty of comparison videos on YouTube regarding gear/software/..
I'll add it to the guide with a mention!
Thanks for contributing!
That's probably someone lead down the wrong path. If they had talked to different people, they might have ended up being music producers. Instead they wasted a ton of money on things they didn't need, or weren't the right things for whatever kind of production is right for them.
A pair of half decent headphones isn't a bad purchase for anyone though. As long as you don't buy some of the $150 crap that claims to be good these days. $40 over the ear headphones are fine. If you get them from china, $20 ones will do you well, if they got good reviews.