Vocals Sound Louder in Headphones

[leddy]

Are you using a lot of effects that may involve widening of the stereo image? I'd look for phase issues. Flip back and forth between mono and stereo and listen to what changes. Turn the plug ins off and listen too. If you can't hear it, get some sort of phase scope. Voxengo makes a good one. Dollars to doughnuts you have some issues there.

 

[Doctor Varney]

When I tried mixing on headphones, I ended up with tons of extra bass - and it was terrible. They're fine for editing timelines at night, outside of sympathy hours and such but when I switched to just a simple domestic hi-fi amp and speakers for mixing, the results were a thousand times better.