Mixing, Mixing, Over the Bounding Cs

[billroper]

I have theoretic final mixes for Gypsy's Curse, Saturday Nights, and Hello, Stranger. Of course, these may not survive contact with the truck test...

Comments

[kestrels-nest.livejournal.com]

Truck test?

[billroper]

Take the mix out for a ride in the car and see if it still sounds acceptable. If a mix sounds good in the studio, in the car, and in the living room, we're probably ok.

A good mastering engineer can simulate all of these environments in his studio; lesser mortals make do. :)

[kestrels-nest.livejournal.com]

A mastering engineer probably has all sorts of fancy-shmancy equipment. You do very well indeed. :)

[tollermom]

Oooh... I _knew_ I couldn't be the only one who truck-tested mixes.

The Wild Mercy mixes all had to sound good in my living room on the Paradigms _and_ in my Trooper (the noisy boxy sound cavity from hell... but with a good stereo).

Mixes that survived contact with road noise were mixes that got to live. :-)

(Oh, and btw... we've been Wild Mercyizing bits and pieces of Barry's Far Light project... it's been much fun!)

[billroper]

That's the trick. :) I got the term from msminlr.

I'm looking forward to hearing Barry's tracks...