Checking your mix, what do you use?

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Just wondering how many different sources you guys use to check your mixes, and if you have anything in your mix room besides monitors.

Personally I check on a JVC boombox, in my Jeep which has a nice stereo with a sub and separates, on a Klipsch Promedia 5.1 system (which is in the studio), in my neighbors Tahoe with the Infinity system and 2 10" subs, and on my dads hi-fi setup which has some nice components and some vinatge Scallas.

I've also been known to go to Best Buy/Circuit City and "demo" out cuts on everything they have there.
 
Same here. Every system anyone is foolish enough to give me access to gets a taste of my BRILLIANT mixing skeels...
 
I have passive Reveals for my primary monitors. I also use 3 other sets of near field monitors (Cubes, Monitor Ones & Optimus) that I use as secondary reference. Once I have a mix that works on all those monitors I then use a boom box.

If I'm still satisfied, I'll wait till the next day (for a fresh perspective) and then use the stereo sytem upstairs (my studio is in the basement). I then check the mix on a boom box my wife has in the kitchen. Then, I check it in my wife's vehicle . If I'm still satisfied, I will lastly check it in my vehicle (over the course of a day or two while I'm driving around - I'll flip back and forth from commercial CDs to various FM radio to my mix).

At this point there's a good chance I'll go back to the basement and re-mix. Come to think of it, I've never actually finished a mix :D

While I think most people like to check a mix on several systems, I recall reading a statement by a well known producer (can't remember who) that suggested it is better to have 1 set of speakers that you know intimately and trust, than to continually second guess yourself on numerous speakers.

While I can't reach a comfort level with one set of speakers - there is a logic to what the producer (whoever he was) said.
 
I'll mix on the Adams, and cross-check on a pair of B&W's. I also put up a boombox on the console and check on that during mixing sessions.
 
I usually check my mixes with a crappy boombox, then a crappy stereo, then through my crappy tv speakers. However, before all of this magic happens I initially listen to my mix through my primary studio monitors.. crappy Alesis Monitor Ones. My mixes are crap-tastic!
 
I have a pair of Mackie HR 824's as my main monitors, plus a pair of Yamaha MS 101 II's that I use to check mixes. The Yamaha's are powered 4" speakers, I basically use them as boombox simulators. I also have a boombox in the studio to check burned CD's with. Then of course there's the home stereo and car.

I agree with that comment about knowing your main speakers well is more important than checking on all sorts of different monitors. But having a pair of different monitors can also give you fresh ears to hear something that your ears might have become accepting of on the main speakers. It's a good idea to check once in a while, but perhaps not do a tremendous amount of switching back and forth.
 
Review mix via PC Speakers (where mixing is done), Sony boombox, and Bose car sterero.

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after mixing on my resolv 65as ...i just listen to it on windows media player....if i like it there then I'm done...sometimes i play it on the home theater floor speakers which are 15"s if it comes off good enough for people to nodd their head to and ask for a copy...I'm sold.
 
That's actually why I got to Best Buy/Circuit City-- for the public reaction more than the systems they have set up.
 
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