Description
UltraPhones are SONY 7506 Studio Monitor headphone components mounted in a comfortable 3M Peltor 29db hearing protection muff. They improve your performance AND protect your hearing by delivering good sound with an amazing 29db of passive isolation. This means you don’t have to turn your volume up loud just to hear the headphones over the sounds around you. A side benefit of UltraPhones isolation is the complete elimination of cue and click bleed.
UltraPhones are very comfortable to wear for long periods of time because the speakers are recessed into the ear cups, they don’t rest on your ear cartilage. This means your ears won’t be sore after a long day using headphones. Total combined weight of the phones & cord is 14 oz.
Nothing beats UltraPhones’ unique combination of genuine high isolation, great comfort, and good sound. They are great for the studio, orchestra pit, or stage. Our customers say after using UltraPhones they will never go back to regular headphones again!
Reviews – Best Headphones for Drummers
Iso-Phone Shootout – UltraPhones vs The Competition
Save your hearing with UltraPhones
The Problem
Your ears are ringing after using regular headphones to monitor sound during a loud recording session, show, or rehearsal.
The Cause
Regular headphones are not designed to block out external sound. You’ve probably noticed when using regular headphones in a loud environment, you have to turn the volume up very high just to hear them over the roar of sound that surrounds you. In this situation, you’re actually giving your hearing a double whammy. First, your ear drums are getting pounded by the loud environmental sounds, then on top of that you add excessively loud headphones placed directly over your ears! Too much exposure to this type of situation can lead to permanent hearing damage.
The Solution
UltraPhones! They eliminate the need for excessive headphone volume levels by reducing the amount of environmental sound reaching your ears by an amazing 29db. If you already suffer from tinnitus or other hearing damage, as many musicians do, UltraPhones can help protect the precious hearing you have left.
highstickdrums (verified owner) –
I’m always skeptical when promised great ‘isolation’ from headphones. The GK Ultra Phones FAR exceeded my expectations. I actually forgot how much unnoticed noise is around me – even in my ‘quiet place’. I’m a bit embarrassed to admit this, but the headphones took away so much excess noise that I actually fell asleep within 5 minutes of trying them on (before trying them w/music). Oh…Did I mention the comfort??
Les Smithey
Owner – HighStick Percussion
Pedro Bellora (verified owner) –
I must say this headphones were absolutely life-changing. The UltraPhones blow away all other “headphone for drummers” I’ve ever tried. Sound quality is really good and the isolation is amazing. This means that you can hear the track in a really comfortable way but, here is what really blew me away, you can hear what the microphone is capturing of your drum kit. In this manner you can intuitively adjust your playing levels so that the recording levels (for example the volume of the hi-hat) is balanced on the end product. Also, these headphones are great for other uses, for example in microphone placement. You can be moving a microphone and the same time hearing how the sound changes. With other headphones, the sound isolation was not enough to really do this on my own without an assistant. And, of course, you can also wash dishes while enjoying music in glorious details, or hear some waterfall sounds while sleeping late next to a construction site!! These headphones were, in my case, absolutely life-changing. Highly recommended! Congratulations for a fantastic product, thank you so much!
David Connors (verified owner) –
I have been struggling with improving my dynamics on my Roland v-Drums as finer work on the high hat is drowned out by the thump of the rubber pads. I switched from normal headphones to Bose QC700 noise canceling headphones and that was a massive improvement over normal cans. I still wasn’t satisfied though and someone on The Drumming Discord recommended UltraPhones. I read some reviews and decided to buy a pair and I was not disappointed. They almost completely drown out all mechanical noise from the e-Kit and I can hear my high hat work clear as day now. Unfortunately they are so good they’ve highlighted a lot of problems with my kick and snare work so now I have to work on them as well. 🙂 My QC700s were actively noise cancelled to 20dB and these phones are 29dB. The difference is amazing. Cannot recommend these highly enough,.