grimtraveller
If only for a moment.....
Going right back to the mid 70s when I was a kid, I noticed that a song or songs on an album, although being the same song or set of songs, sounded slightly different depending on whether they were being played on radio, a turntable or cassette deck. The changes weren't to do with quality, just that different mediums brought out different things. That also extended to if I was listening on headphones {which also extended to the type of headphones or earphones}, a walkman, a car stereo etc and later went on to include CDs when they came out, then ipods and stuff via the computer etc.
I'm curious about how "consistent" people find their mixes to be when they hear them in different situations. For example, I've found that my own mixes {and I'd be the first to admit they're not close to stellar !} sound slightly different depending on what I'm playing that mix on. Rarely to the extent that it sounds awful on anything, but there may be slight differences. I might hear the drums loud and clear with the percussion slightly less so as intended, on most of what I play the particular track on, but the percussion might be emphasized say, on a car stereo and shitty laptop ~ things like that.
I find, I've pretty much always found, these differences to be the case on commercial recordings too. I remember how amazed I was to hear Paul McCartney's bass lines on Beatle songs when I wasn't playing them on my little cassette recorder because on it, the bass rarely, if ever, figured. Yet I could hear Roger Waters bass on the first two Pink Floyd albums very well on the same cassette player, to the extent that it inspired me to actually take up the bass.
Is this a common finding ? Do you sometimes hear minor differences depending on where and what you play your mixes on ?
I'm curious about how "consistent" people find their mixes to be when they hear them in different situations. For example, I've found that my own mixes {and I'd be the first to admit they're not close to stellar !} sound slightly different depending on what I'm playing that mix on. Rarely to the extent that it sounds awful on anything, but there may be slight differences. I might hear the drums loud and clear with the percussion slightly less so as intended, on most of what I play the particular track on, but the percussion might be emphasized say, on a car stereo and shitty laptop ~ things like that.
I find, I've pretty much always found, these differences to be the case on commercial recordings too. I remember how amazed I was to hear Paul McCartney's bass lines on Beatle songs when I wasn't playing them on my little cassette recorder because on it, the bass rarely, if ever, figured. Yet I could hear Roger Waters bass on the first two Pink Floyd albums very well on the same cassette player, to the extent that it inspired me to actually take up the bass.
Is this a common finding ? Do you sometimes hear minor differences depending on where and what you play your mixes on ?