Hey all,
So I've been having a problem with a mix recently and I can't seem to figure out a way around it.
So this mix I've been working on sounds fine in my mains, sounds fine in two sets of head phones, sounds nice on some low grade PC speakers, sounds find in some crap KRK speakers, and sounds nice in some old Fisher 10" consumer stereo speakers I have hooked up....but get's destroyed in the car...WTF?!?
The thing is I've been on this mix way longer than I could say is a professional time (thankfully it's not for someone. It's a novelty track I created out of want and to pick up some techniques from) and it's still not "right" in the car. I've B'd other mixes across the same car stereo and they sound fine as well. Yea I know those mixes are mastered in super high end studios, but that shouldn't really matter.
Of course I think part of the reason might be ear fatigue. Even though I don't mix loud, prolonged mixing for hours and hours without any break will do that to you even if you switch you monitoring source after a while.
But it just bothers me that that's the only place the mix really fails and have sought for ways to remedy this. Perhaps mixing in the car via laptop and bluetooth? Couldn't find anything like that though....Or a source (or monitor pair) that can emulate the car environment while in studio? Maybe I need more speakers to monitor from? Or maybe I've just been looking too hard into the mix and should just let it be?
Either way, HELP!
So I've been having a problem with a mix recently and I can't seem to figure out a way around it.
So this mix I've been working on sounds fine in my mains, sounds fine in two sets of head phones, sounds nice on some low grade PC speakers, sounds find in some crap KRK speakers, and sounds nice in some old Fisher 10" consumer stereo speakers I have hooked up....but get's destroyed in the car...WTF?!?
The thing is I've been on this mix way longer than I could say is a professional time (thankfully it's not for someone. It's a novelty track I created out of want and to pick up some techniques from) and it's still not "right" in the car. I've B'd other mixes across the same car stereo and they sound fine as well. Yea I know those mixes are mastered in super high end studios, but that shouldn't really matter.
Of course I think part of the reason might be ear fatigue. Even though I don't mix loud, prolonged mixing for hours and hours without any break will do that to you even if you switch you monitoring source after a while.
But it just bothers me that that's the only place the mix really fails and have sought for ways to remedy this. Perhaps mixing in the car via laptop and bluetooth? Couldn't find anything like that though....Or a source (or monitor pair) that can emulate the car environment while in studio? Maybe I need more speakers to monitor from? Or maybe I've just been looking too hard into the mix and should just let it be?
Either way, HELP!