Something for our musicians to think about...

This is something I do that I'm not sure every other musician does.


When finalizing your song, use different outputs.


Here's what I mean:


When EQing your different instruments/tracks, or even if you don't EQ, at least the volumes, listen to it from different sources. Everyone has a huge variety of different ways they listen to music on the PC, and even from their MP3 players/iPods, and you need to account for that.


Listen to the song through your headphones first and adjust the EQ/volume to make it sound pleasant. The headphones are usually a primary source to listen from, because they contain the best frequency range to hear your bass frequencies boost out.

Then listen to the song again through speakers. Adjust a little bit for that, but not too much, to still make it sound pleasant.

Then go back to your headphones. Make correct adjustments so your song doesn't distort or over-power in both sources.


Try playing your song through as many sources as possible. If you have an iPod or MP3 player, put it on there and listen through it. Even connect your PC to your TV if you want, or through your hi-def huge speaker entertainment system.


I know this was a problem with my older songs, because one person would complain that the kick drum was too loud, while another individual would say it was way too quiet, both commenting on the same song. This process eliminates that.

I don't have the means to do this. :X

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Damn it all to hell, man. If the general voting body here [from the information I have processed so far] doesn't bother to listen to any entry that they have to save to their hard drive or is not by their absolutely bestest, favoritest person ever, do you think they give two about their EQ?

I sure do appreciate your reaching out here, Yoshi. Really, I do, but you must pardon my hostility because I really don't feel like busting myself for the meager addition of pleasure to others.

This is actually for more than just MFGG. I'm talking creating music in general, for people in MFGG and outside of MFGG as well.


Besides, if you have an long-term interest in making music, it's good to know these sorts of things.


And also, something like EQing can easily make the difference between people wanting to listen to the full song, and having to cover their ears after 5 seconds.