By BGBEATS
Sun Jul 11, 2010 10:41 pm
I just bought a new car on Friday and the factory stereo has one of the mini aux stereo jacks for ipods etc.
I always burn cd's and test beats and song mixes/masters in whatever factory car system I have around as part of real world listening environments tests of tracks with a/b tests with commercially released cd's. The car acts as a "tuned" environment of sorts simply because so much music listening happens in the car that you know what sounds "right" what hits "hard" or weak based on repetitiive listening in the various genres.
1. plugged radio shack power inverter in cigarette lighter jack to power the mpc 1000
2. plugged stereo mini plug into car stereo aux jack and plugged other end with stereo 1/4 inch adapter into the mpc 1000 headphone out
3. made sure the car stereo eq was set neutral on low mids highs ( car stereo boosts lows a bit anyway though)
4. calibrated the volume level for a/b tests with mastered industry tracks by adjusting the mpc 1000 volume knob and car stereo knob so that the general volume levels were about even.
5. tested various new drum sounds found out which kicks really knock HARD & whick snares & claps really smack. bass, hats shakers . beats already saved were loaded up and mix tested while still in the box. I learned a long time ago that if a track does not KNOCK in a car factory system, it prob won't anywhere. This gives the best real world non studio listening environment next to the club, and ipod earbuds
I always burn cd's and test beats and song mixes/masters in whatever factory car system I have around as part of real world listening environments tests of tracks with a/b tests with commercially released cd's. The car acts as a "tuned" environment of sorts simply because so much music listening happens in the car that you know what sounds "right" what hits "hard" or weak based on repetitiive listening in the various genres.
1. plugged radio shack power inverter in cigarette lighter jack to power the mpc 1000
2. plugged stereo mini plug into car stereo aux jack and plugged other end with stereo 1/4 inch adapter into the mpc 1000 headphone out
3. made sure the car stereo eq was set neutral on low mids highs ( car stereo boosts lows a bit anyway though)
4. calibrated the volume level for a/b tests with mastered industry tracks by adjusting the mpc 1000 volume knob and car stereo knob so that the general volume levels were about even.
5. tested various new drum sounds found out which kicks really knock HARD & whick snares & claps really smack. bass, hats shakers . beats already saved were loaded up and mix tested while still in the box. I learned a long time ago that if a track does not KNOCK in a car factory system, it prob won't anywhere. This gives the best real world non studio listening environment next to the club, and ipod earbuds
