monitors vs car stereo

I made a track it sounded fine on my studio monitors, sampled a little over three minutes of it from record:main out, transfered wav file to pc and burnt it to audio cd, but when i bumped it in my truck the mix was totally different than on monitors, the 808 kick was way to heavy, the clap was to loud, the lead synth sample was way to quiet, played w/ the bass treble on my car stereo but still could not get it to sound the way it sounded on monitors, how can i make sure the mix will sound good anywhere i play it? Note: i have no actual mixer just using mpc 1000 and sampling off vinyl.

welcome to my world boaty- you have entered the realm of proper mixing:

1) get a mixer- seriously- to be able to separate your tracks and stuff it is essential- even a small spirit folio off ebay will give you a start...

2) check how your monitors are set up- there is loads on the net about this- i cant offer any stirling advice as i also have a monitoring problem meaning i pile on the mids.....

what monitors do you have? what amp? do you have a ghetto blaster? if so try getting your mixes soudnding good on both your monitors and your ghetto blaster, also those small pc speakers- get your mix working through them as well...dont mix with headphones- you can get it right inside your headphones and take them off and it sounds shit wheras you can mix outside put them on and it still sounds good...

others should help more...

greg

Just want to say welcome to the club! I still haven't been able to find the fun in mixing. I've found that car radios usually screw things up horribly. You're monitors are supposed to give you the best read granted you follow the instructions for set up. Then you have to consider the room that you are in...blah blah blah. Follow Dub's advice. Get a pack of CD's and burn a few rough drafts and play them on anything you can.

Once you find the secret...let me know.

yeah write on each cd:

played: boombox- problems: muffled highes, keys too loud etc...
car- problems: harsh mids, no bass
in-ear-headphones: problems- etc etc

then try and mix a compromise between all of them considering the frequency responses of each...

welcome....

good topic

you are learning where your monitors are lacking

next lesson is to learn whayt a flat mix sounds like on your monitors, so you can get better translations from system to system

like i said before: dont use studio monitors get your moms hifi speakers, mix through them, listen to it in your car. it sounds right? be done with it.. Studio monitors is for the engineers.
But thats just my opinion

sub $500 speakers are not REFERENCE MONITORS

regardless of what some companies marketing departments would like you to believe

ikke wrote:like i said before: dont use studio monitors get your moms hifi speakers, mix through them, listen to it in your car. it sounds right? be done with it.. Studio monitors is for the engineers.
But thats just my opinion

thats somehwat true

but before i had monitors i would think...yeaaaaah man these drums knock hard as ****...then i would play the beat on another system and it would sound as dull and wet as a queef.

i use both though, just to make sure nothing is way to crazy on either side

i just have some Audix PH-5 (5" woofers) powered monitors that were on sale at the time, there not that great, but i will look into getting a mixer, and playing though on some home stereo speakers first, but i played a dj quik cd through the audix monitors, and it sounded perfect the lows didn't distort, the mids and highs were tight and crisp, i realize its been mastered and engineered by professionals, but sh*t quik's original tracks probably weren't far off from the finished product. i got alot of work ahead of me

NEWS FLASH

Audix does not make monitors

read my post above

that is why your mixes dont translate