[JBI]

On 03/09/2018 03:57 PM, John Williamson wrote:
On 09/03/2018 20:37, JBI wrote:

I thought the whole point of getting this set up and mixing with
monitors in the house was so that mixes would sound better on
anything, not just in the car!Â* Correct me if I'm wrong....

Only one reverb so far has been passable, and that was a convolution
reverb with very gentle settings.Â* It actually sound worse on the
monitors, but better in the car.Â* Perhaps I'll have to go back to that
but it's a darned shame that the current reverb sounds like crap in
the auto as it really sounds good on these new monitors.Â* Oh well.....

Part of the problem may be that you are not used to your new system yet,
another is that reverb generally sounds better is if it used in small
doses, especially if you are adding it to material that already has some
reverb or room tone in the source.

Yes, I've noticed that (reverb only in small doses). I also have better
luck allocating it only to certain frequencies and not to all of them,
plus adding some random variance with automation. Oh well, I'll have to
retry. There is no longer noise issues in the car since using the
ground loop filter I built, so I may give it another go in the car just
temporarily as I don't want to start doing everything in the car once again!


Another point is that when monitoring,it's recommended that you install
sound deadening pads at the reflection points between your ears and the
speakers, say on the ceiling and desktop,and that your head and the
speakers fall at the points of an equilateral triangle.

The triangle is already established, but I've been a bit concerned as
the monitors are are further away than I had hoped (roughly 5 feet away
for each one). I suppose some extra reverb could creep in over that
distance.


There is another way, of course, which is to get a better quality system
installed in the car and set up to sound as good as the environment
permits. Decent door speakers, and a decent quality subwooofer, set not
to overpower the others is one way I've had success with.

With this old hunk of a car that I have, it's not worth it. About the
most I tried recently was modifying the radio harness wires to add an
external auxiliary input since I've been using a cassette adapter for
years. While the modification worked, I was left with only about half
of the volume I could obtain with the adapter. Solution was either a
stronger amp or just keep what I have and I chose the latter.