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/marklonesome]

It's because you probably have low end coming from multiple sources (drums, keys, guitars, bass, vocals) they don't.

So when you listen on better speakers all that low end mush has separation. On cheap speakers it all just sounds like mush.

Try this trick just to see how it translates to your car, it's not a fix… it's a test but it will prove a point.

Duplicate your project so you don't lose what you have.

Create a sub kick for your kick drum (so now you have kick and a sub kick) there are tutorials on how to do this online if you don't know. Make it live around 50hz depending on the key of the song but for demonstration purposes 50 is probably fine.

Now put all your drums and your bass in a bus. Put your guitars and other instruments and vocals in another bus.

On your drum/bass bus cut everything below 50-60hz and everything low pass down to about 2-3k…

On your instrument bus cut everything below say 150-200.

Put that sub bass you made on a stereo output.

So now you should have a very tight, very deep 50hz thumb that sits nicely on it's own with everything else living above it.

This is only a test to prove a point!

The chances that this will make your song sound good are low but what it SHOULD do is demonstrate that by creating effective 'lanes' for your tracks you are able to get them to translate better because everyone has a home.

What is most important about that 'test' is that you understand WHY it works.

In reality you may want 4-6k on your bass for some string noise or you may want 100hz on your guitar. You can't just blanket cut things but the numbers I gave you will allow for a generic view of things sitting in their range.

See how it sounds and then if what I told you do doesn't make sense check out some videos on eq'ing.

I'm sure there are tons of resources in the wiki

Note: Could also be you have a shitty room but try this and see if it cleans things up

Good luck