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echo: pro_audio
to: NANCY WOOD
from: DREW HOHMANN
date: 1996-07-14 17:48:00
subject: NO Car Audio

-> TO> gear, instead of being stuck with "car audio" junk. Another TO>
-> thought
-> TO> is that studio engineers tend to leave the stock stereo in the
-> TO> car, so
-> TO> that they can see how their mixes sound when played back on TO>
-> ordinary
-> TO> junk gear, as I do. Take care.
->
-> I know a fellow who used to stress that very thing with me.  He's
-> say, "Don't waste the stereo equipment... even in the studio on the
-> playback monitor for the final mix.  If you do, you won't get a good
-> clear mix... cause those folks who don't have $1000 stereos in their
-> homes or cars won't hear the stuff. Play it back on as cheap a radio
-> as you can find and THEN, when you hear it all, you'll have a good
-> mix! Until then, it'll only be a mediocre mix, at best!" I've tried
-> to keep that in mind... cause the studio I have been using of late
-> has EV's  for the speakers for the monitor system (Owner thinks
-> bigger is better -)... So I bring my rough mixes home and
-> listen on a cheap system then take notes at each spot that needs
-> correcting... then I go back to the studio and fix it right! 
-> (Lots of back tracking but it keeps everyone happy!) 
Sure, it keeps everyone happy except for those with high end home
systems who want the music to be as sonically accurate as possible.
That's why many old cd's sound good on mediocre systems, but junk on a
nice high end system.
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