Steve,
Your old school approach is actually very similar to my new school approach... mix, save to iPod, listen in car for a couple of days, remix, save to iPod, listen in car for a couple of days, etc. Repeat until mix sounds good.

My monitors don't do a good job of exposing weaknesses in a mix, such as too much bass. My car stereo does, though. If I've got too much bass, the speakers will fart out. If my mix is shrill, I'll know it. By going back and forth between my monitors and the car stereo, I feel like I get a decent handle on things. I think the approach still works well.

There's a very fine line between a sound having energy and a sound being fatiguing. I'm still learning where that line is.




Richard MacLemale
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