having problem with vocal sitting well on different systems

[grn]

here's my problem. I have panned several thing left and right (hard) and what not, and left the vocal smack dab in the center. it sounds great and at the right levels on my monitors, even in my car, but then listening in headphones the vocal isn't very loud at all and is sometimes lost. what should I do? here's an example...

 

[Rokket]

It sounded pretty good in my cheap pc speakers. I couldn't listen on headphones because my old lady kidnapped them to listen to (uggh) Celine Dione, but if I had to guess, it's not sounding right in headphones because of the proximity of the speakers to your ears, and the instruments are more prominent. Did you double track the lead vocal by singing it twice? That can bring it out in the mix better. You can remix so that the backing vocals are a bit lower, and that may help. The biggest problem I could see from what I was listening on was after the interlude at the end, and that may just be in how you faded the track out. Everything else sounded fine to me.

 

[grn]

hmm, try later listening on headphones, the ending was faded out on purpose like that... maybe I'll have to just duplicate the vocal track and hard pan left and right, I'm stumped.

 

[scrubs]

here's my problem. I have panned several thing left and right (hard) and what not, and left the vocal smack dab in the center. it sounds great and at the right levels on my monitors, even in my car, but then listening in headphones the vocal isn't very loud at all and is sometimes lost. what should I do? here's an example...

From my perspective, the lead vocal is too loud during the verses (listened on headphones and 2 sets of speakers). The background vocals are also too loud, which makes them kind of drown out the lead during the hook line. Try taking the background vox down a bit. Also, use EQ to scoop out some mids in the bg vox to make a place for your lead vocal.

 

[tvanveen]

The headphones sound ok with other songs?

 

[grn]

no the headphones sound the same with most songs... can't hear the lead vocal very well. (of the ones I've recorded) now with other recordings I can hear the lead vocal on my headphones.