Vocal under and over the mix in differing environments

  • Thread starter Thread starter Tornandfrayed
  • Start date Start date
T

Tornandfrayed

New member
Hi Guys

I'm pretty new to recording and mixing and an having a bit of an issue, I hoping someone can point me in the right direction. .

After mixing down to mp3, the vocal track in a mix seems to sit differrently depending on the environment .. .

On a good home stero with quality KEF speakers, the vocal is under the mix
Through a pair of £200 headphones it's slightly under
Through iPod headphones it's slightly over
In the car it's way over
Through a Pair of JBL good quality PC speakers it's way way over..

It there anything I can do to even it out? I've tryed compressing the hell out of it, in Sonar using the Sonitus compressor. .

I'm mixing it down in Sonar, then opening in soundforge and using Ozone4 with the CD master pre set, then droping to mp3. . .

any help much appreciated . .
 
Most likely there are things going on that your mixing situation isn't letting you hear very well, like some frequency present in the vocals that other systems reproduce differently. Better monitoring will probably help. The better you can hear during mixdown the better the mix holds up on other systems.
 
Many thanks. . They both helped :-). . .switching to VBR seems better and the bass was evening out the mix when mixing, but just got lost with MP3 compression and carp speakers so I've EQ'd the bass track now seems much better taa.. .
 
The type of MP3 compression isn't going to make that much of a difference. At least not with your issue. To think otherwise is ludicrous. Your issue is in your room/monitoring chain.
 
Don't just blindly use a preset assuming it's the best thing for your music because it says it's for a "CD Master"

I actually really like Ozone but you gotta get in there and tweak the settings.

And "compressing the hell" out of the vocal probably isn't helping you at all.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top