mentalattica
Just a Home Recorder
Hello all,
I wanted to get some input on possibly something I'm doing wrong here. I've been going back and remixing all of my songs as of recent but I'm having a huge problem with the low end on quite a few songs.
My mixes translate well on desktop speakers and home stereo's but in cars I've heard so many different things. One of my cars has a stock radio and speakers, the mixes sound a little heavy in the low end. My other car has a custom sound system with a set of 12" subs, and it's screaming waaaay too much low end at me (I usually listen to everything with the same bass and trebble settings bass is at -4 and trebble at +6 on a scale of 1-10).
So I get back in my studio and bump the bass down a bit by either turning the kick drums or basseline down a few db, or eq'ing individual tracks. Now my monitors (KRK RP8 & BX5's) are telling me not enough low end, but I double check on other sources to be sure. I go back through the process of home stereo, desktop speakers where they still sound OK at best but lacking
in the bass dept. you can barely hear the kick but you know it's there.
Then, out to the cars and they sound good in the "stock" stereo but in my custom stereo they sound pretty damn bad and are still saying too much low end on a few mixes. I can't get them to sound even OK on all playback sources I use, they'll sound good on one, OK on another and terrible on another.
I've had people tell me my mixes sound really good, but I just don't hear it (Nor would most people on this board from just reading a lot of what you guys have to say). If I can't say "these mixes sound really good" to myself and believe it, others opinions don't matter as much. Over critical??
Could it be something I'm doing wrong? (obviously)
But any idea's without actually hearing the mixes in question?
I wanted to get some input on possibly something I'm doing wrong here. I've been going back and remixing all of my songs as of recent but I'm having a huge problem with the low end on quite a few songs.
My mixes translate well on desktop speakers and home stereo's but in cars I've heard so many different things. One of my cars has a stock radio and speakers, the mixes sound a little heavy in the low end. My other car has a custom sound system with a set of 12" subs, and it's screaming waaaay too much low end at me (I usually listen to everything with the same bass and trebble settings bass is at -4 and trebble at +6 on a scale of 1-10).
So I get back in my studio and bump the bass down a bit by either turning the kick drums or basseline down a few db, or eq'ing individual tracks. Now my monitors (KRK RP8 & BX5's) are telling me not enough low end, but I double check on other sources to be sure. I go back through the process of home stereo, desktop speakers where they still sound OK at best but lacking
in the bass dept. you can barely hear the kick but you know it's there.
Then, out to the cars and they sound good in the "stock" stereo but in my custom stereo they sound pretty damn bad and are still saying too much low end on a few mixes. I can't get them to sound even OK on all playback sources I use, they'll sound good on one, OK on another and terrible on another.
I've had people tell me my mixes sound really good, but I just don't hear it (Nor would most people on this board from just reading a lot of what you guys have to say). If I can't say "these mixes sound really good" to myself and believe it, others opinions don't matter as much. Over critical??
Could it be something I'm doing wrong? (obviously)
But any idea's without actually hearing the mixes in question?
