Does anyone else do this?

[RideTheCrash]

I'm pretty sure the "Loudness" button just scoops the mids. Lower volume = humans can't detect the highs and lows as well.

 

[kaminari13]

best place for checking mixes

I work in a bar that gets pretty full and loud which seems to be the ultimate test for music ,alot of professionaly mixed music can sound like crap there so if my mixes come out balanced and clear i know i´m onto something.

 

[travelin travis]

since getting my last pair of monitors, my car stereo checks turn out very well.........as they should. now if i had something worth mixing in the first place, i'd be doing good.

 

[Ironklad Audio]

i think the whole "car stereo" thing works because the car is one of the worst listening environments in the world...so if it sounds good there, it'll sounds good just about anywhere else as well

 

[SouthSIDE Glen]

I'm pretty sure the "Loudness" button just scoops the mids. Lower volume = humans can't detect the highs and lows as well.

Yes and no. Most "Loudness" circuits don't scoop the mids, but rather boost the lows and highs. Basically the same curve, except with an increase in overall gain rather than a cut.

G.

 

[Cyrokk]

I'm fucked. My old chevy has no cd player and its speakers are shot to hell. My wife's car was newer with a stock cd player, but we had to sell it a couple months ago.

All I can do is go through my monitors, then my tracking headphones, my mp3 headphones, and then through the headphones of this computer. People in the forums haven't noticed anything too out of whack, so I guess I'm okay for now...

 

[PlnsMstkn4Jacob]

Does anyone else here trust how their song sounds in their car stereo more then played anywhere else? Whenever I change something in my mix, I render it to WAV, burn it into a cd and go out to my car and listen to it. I don't contemplate wether or not it sounds good until I hear it in my car

Yes, I'm so familiar with how music should sound in my car. That's how I check all of my mixes. I even hear mistakes and noises and goofs that I don't hear on my studio monitors. My car stereo and speakers are very flat, and they don't make mixes "sound good". I usually find that my mix is to bassy, or sometimes the guitars are too low in volume when I take my mix out to my car so I try to compensate for that beforehand when mixing.

 

[Ethan Winer]

i think the whole "car stereo" thing works because the car is one of the worst listening environments in the world...so if it sounds good there, it'll sounds good just about anywhere else as well

Much of the reason a car has more accurate bass than a small room is because bass goes through the thin car body to the outside rather than being reflected back at you. It's the reflections that cause the worst of the peaks and deep nulls.

--Ethan

 

[MCI2424]

Does anyone else here trust how their song sounds in their car stereo more then played anywhere else? Whenever I change something in my mix, I render it to WAV, burn it into a cd and go out to my car and listen to it. I don't contemplate wether or not it sounds good until I hear it in my car

That is because you are used to that environment. If you KNOW how to correct your mixes, you CAN mix on any monitors in any room period.

A treated room with properly placed monitors, like everything else, just makes it easier to make transportable mixes.

 

[MCI2424]

Much of the reason a car has more accurate bass than a small room is because bass goes through the thin car body to the outside rather than being reflected back at you. It's the reflections that cause the worst of the peaks and deep nulls.

--Ethan

You obviously have not taken a ride in my Totota Tacoma double cab truck, The bass standing waves are truly horrible.