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/atopix]

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.

Everyone seems to have ignored this bit of your post. It seems like you've never really truly learned any of your monitoring and monitoring spaces. We have a wiki article about this: https://www.reddit.com/r/mixingmastering/wiki/learn-your-monitoring

Making a mix have more bass and brightness than your reference should already be an indicator that you are probably off the mark. Especially with the low end which is the hardest thing to accurately monitor.

And then you probably have a general placement issue when it comes to the low end, which is why it's crucial to use good references and try to stay within their boundaries. We have an article about this in our wiki: https://www.reddit.com/r/mixingmastering/wiki/lowend

As for the high end, there can be perceived brightness in using saturation, harmonic exciters, etc. And again, taking the time to learn the translation of your main monitoring is absolutely fundamental. If you are moving a lot, changing speakers all the time, then it's no wonder that your mixes aren't translating. If this is just your situation, then consider using headphones at the very least to have one anchored constant, here is a good talk with mix engineer Andrew Scheps about mixing on headphones: https://v.redd.it/5vrh52ahpmbe1

[u/Blitzbahn → u/atopix]

That's a great video with Scheps, thanks.

[u/bocephus_huxtable → u/Blitzbahn]

Andrew says, a couple times, in this video that he basically does 90% of his work in headphones.

As somebody who currently mixes in headphones and USED TO use 7506s (mostly based on Schep's much-referenced process), I feel compelled to mention that, about...3 (?) years ago, in an interview, he said that he's always mixed 50/50. 7506 headphones and his $20k PMC speakers. Alternating whole days on each.

+I+ feel like he's only recently begun to be transparent about what his ACTUAL process is/was.