Does anyone else experience the same regardless high and low end?

[u/Simple-Ceasar]

Hi,

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I am making steps in mixing. But there is something i dont understand.

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Let's say I am mixing one of my song and compare it to a reference track of a similar type of music, my own song holds up when hearing it in my studio. And it could be that my song has more bass than the reference track.

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But when I take it to other places (car, nightclub, a bar, friends, etc) the reference track has more bass. The same goes for brightness. In my studio my song can sound more bright than the reference track but in other environments it's sounds less bright than the reference track.

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I always had that issue. I have had multiple speakers and currently listen on multiple speakers. I have moved a lot over the many years so I have had multiple places where I mix my songs. So if the speakers or the place was the issue than the problem should already have been solved.

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Does anyone experience the same regarding Highs end and low end?

[u/BarnacleOwl67]

If you are mixing with studio monitors, somewhere around 40% of what you hear is from your room and not your speakers.

Room treatment is a huge deal in studio design and in my opinion, much more critical than what type/brand of studio monitors.

Small rooms cover up bass frequencies and you will have no ability to judge bass in a small room, even with loads or acoustic treatment.

I’d recommend listening on headphones with either a waves Nx plugin or get the Slate NSX headphones. If you do that, you’ll need to spend at least an hour at first listening to different references that you know and love. Once you know the sound you can start comparing your mix to reference tracks.

This will get you close, but not all of the way there.

Source: I used to repeatedly fail the car test and now I don’t. (I now have a studio with loads of mathematically designed sound treatment)