On 3/13/2018 11:03 PM, JBI wrote:
6 - You do not wish to adjust your technique to mastering on a system
that sounds simply as good as it can be, forgetting the car scenario
entirely ?
No, not entirely.Â* These monitors have pretty much solved the issue of
mixing in the house to sound similar to the car.Â* I can roughly add the
same amount of EQ I get in the car at the DAW output and, on these new
monitors, for the first time ever, the sound is close enough.
So what you hear in the house (after EQ and other adjustments) sounds
like what you're accustomed to hearing in the car? And when you take
this mucked-up-to-sound-like-the-car mix out to the car, it still sounds
like you mixed it in the house? That would be odd. That sounds like
maybe you're taking out frequencies that the car environment emphasizes
- then in the car, there's nothing there (or rather less there) to
emphasize so it doesn't change much traveling from the house to the car.
The only issue remaining is reverb/ echo and/or stereo.Â* I'm finding it
hard to mimic what I hear in the house versus the car, but someone
earlier in the week suggested to adjust to what sounded good in the
house, then back off a certain amount of db.Â* That seems to be the best
compromise.Â* I don't think the car's ever going to sound any better
without better speakers or better placement.
The other thing about listening in the car is that if the left/right
balance is centered (in the car radio) and you're in the driver's seat,
you aren't hearing very much of what's in the right channel - neither
program material nor ambience. It won't be right either if you adjust
the radio's panning control (by 2000, most car radios did have one) so,
from your listening position, what's in the center sounds like it's in
the center, but it might give you a clue as to how to make an
"unbalanced" mix that will work better from where you're sitting while
driving.
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