dose it sound good in the car

[jtourangeau]

My d.a.w is on a laptop with an 1/8th inch out.Car stereo has 1/8th inch in.Anyone mix in their car?

 

[Brian Miller]

Don't mix in the car.

But do check your mix in the car. And on tinny laptop speakers. And iPod docks. And Bluetooth speakers.

Seriously, cars are a bad place to mix. The acoustics are awful due to the physical design of car interiors.

 

[ido1957]

I don't but I do check mixes there. The problem is the bass is wonky on my truck stereo.

 

[jtourangeau]

ahhh cool,thanks for the quicks

 

[miroslav]

My d.a.w is on a laptop with an 1/8th inch out.Car stereo has 1/8th inch in.Anyone mix in their car?

Inside Track: Jack White

White uses the car’s top–of–the–range stereo system as one of his main monitoring references when judging mixes, having them beamed to him via an FM radio transmitter.

 

[Btyre2013]

all that glass in the car is going to screw up the high end judgement, mixing music for cars isn't the best idea.

 

[ashcat_lt]

I just read an article where a couple guys were talking about how they did a lot of work on their latest album in cars. I think it was mostly demos and arrangements and things, but there was mention of tracking vocals in a parking lot. The guitarists had to stand outside the car cause the vocalist was self-conscious. IDK if they were actually listening on the car stereo, though. Probably just earbuds. Who was that? Where was that? I'll have to go look...

 

[miroslav]

Recording/mixing in the car reminds me of this Seinfeld episode:

 

[ashcat_lt]

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