Your mix can't just sound good on super awesome studio speakers.
It also needs to sound great on earbuds, laptop speakers and (hopefully) big massive concert sound systems.
What I usually do is check my mixes on my laptop speakers, earbuds and on my nice headphones, in addition to the speakers in my studio.
But some speakers just make everything sound awful.
It doesn't matter whether you're playing rough mixes or Grammy winning records through them.
It's like these speakers were made by the most incompetent sound engineers in the world.
Usually, when I put my mix through a set of speakers like that and it doesn't sound right, I'll go back into my DAW to make some EQ changes.
But if the speaker in question makes everything else sound like $#!t, there's not much you can really do.
If award-winning records sound awful then what hope do us average Sid and Nancy's have?
I'll stick to my monitors, earbuds and laptop speakers for translation instead.
I bet you have certain speakers that just sound terrible right?
My advice is to just forget about them. Don't let these terrible system drag you and your mixing skills down. If it's decent on most other systems, you're doing great!
The best way to get your mixes to translate across systems is to know how to EQ your tracks together so that they sound the same regardless of what speakers you're playing them through.
If you need help with that, EQ Strategies - Your Ultimate Guide to EQ will help you improve separation in your tracks so that you can have nice, balanced mixes all the time.
Check it out here:
www.EQStrategies.net
