Consistent pattern now over maybe fifteen songs. I finish a mix late, think it's the best thing I've done, come back two days later and it's obviously harsh and over compressed and I can't understand what I was hearing.…
Small bedroom, 3.2 by 2.7 metres, monitors on stands about 40cm from the wall behind them. Every mix I do sounds balanced in the room and then has boomy, wooly low end in the car and on a laptop. It's consistently the…
The kick sounds good alone, the bass sounds good alone, together the low end turns into mush that pumps. I've tried carving 60 80Hz out of the bass, then tried carving it out of the kick instead, and both versions sound…
Recording a fairly loud singer through a condenser into a USB interface. The red clip LED on the front flashes on loud phrases, but the track in my DAW peaks around 12dBFS and sounds clean when I solo it. Am I actually…
I have entry level 5 inch monitors and an untreated 3.5 by 4 metre bedroom with a carpet and a bed. I can't drill into walls, landlord's rules. £350 available. Everyone online says treatment first but the no drilling…