Yesterday I was mixing a song and when I was happy with the results on my monitors I bounced it played it on two sets of headphones, an MP3 player with a set of portable headphones, a laptop’s built-in speakers, my Mac’s built-in speakers and my car.

That helped me to assess some details of the mix that I hadn’t perceived until then. The most important being that the kick and the bass were too loud and the intro was too quiet, so sorted the problem by using a bit of volume automation on the intro and lowering a few dB’s both the kick and bass. Now everything sounds a lot more balanced.

That has shown me the importance of checking the mixes on as many systems as possible as the limitations of these can show details that weren’t audible or obvious before.