On 22/08/2017 12:12 AM, John Williamson wrote:
On 21/08/2017 12:19, wrote:
But, to be fair, it's best to check with both headphones and speakers.
That's all you need to do when you are doing it as a hobby for your own
consumption, but when you are being paid for it, it needs to sound as
good as possible on all systems from the tiny speakers in cheap earbuds
to the ultimate high end hifi systems favoured by audiophools, via the
stupidy bass heavy systems in discos and many cars, if that's your target.
As if you can make one mix that will sound great in all those
environments. The best you can do is a mix that will not sound too
terrible in any of them. Frankly I wish more audio was just
mixed/mastered for good sound systems, since the others (except good
headphones) are going to sound crap anyway. So I'd always check on
headphones, but not car speakers myself. With such a huge variation in
sound from so many different cars and also many after market sound
systems, some with giant sub woofers and some with only 4" speakers,
it's always seemed pointless to me.
Trevor.