I have a problem and I need advice

[solarbird]

So I’ve been working on this CD, and I’ve been mastering against a couple of sets of really pretty decent studio headphones. And that’s all lovely and good. But lately I’ve been also playing things on this old Pioneer amp I picked up… somewhere… a long time ago… and a couple of halfway-decent cheap speakers, and all the levelling and such sounds totally different and not so awesome.

Obviously I shouldn’t level to the 35-year-old transistor Pioneer amp. But given that: against what should I be working? I can’t afford good studio monitors and amp; that’d be awesome and HAHAHAHAHAHA <cries>

So…

…what do I do here?

Anybody?

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Mirrored from Crime and the Blog of Evil.

Comments

[bettyw]

When we were mixing in the recording studio, we'd always take the mix out to my car to play in order to see what got lost in those speakers vs the high-end monitors; and then home to put through some boomboxes. Since we had fairly complex piano & string section mixes we'd sometimes decide to tweak up/down some levels on the assumption that cars/ipod compression/etc would be more the norm than audiophile fans.