This $8 Speaker Will Make You A Better Producer

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Cameron will now be permanently be stuck in a cinematic aspect ratio. He uses it wayyyy so well to go back.

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If it's round, it's not a shitbox, it's a turdburger..🤣

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This is such great advice. There's a reason so mang producers I've talked to test mixes in their car. I remeber Porter Robinson specifically in the past talking about how he would listen to the songs he produced to the Apple earbuds that used to come included with phones (at the time) because thats what most his listeners would be using.

It's a great and often overlooked idea - the BBC famously had both high quality Rogers refererence monitors built to their specification in their audio production suites, but also crappy TV speakers with the intention that they were making audio that sounded good for both the highest and lowest common denominator. It's very interesting how much that concept has been lost to time, meaning there is a huge amount of modern TV shows with terrible mixes because they were only ever tested on the highest grade monitors with people who've never learned what works or doesn't work on the average end device and never bothered to test it on the most common system. Thanks for another really useful video. :)

Hollywood needs to do this so I can watch stuff without having to turn on the captions.

Engineer Philip Weinrobe talks about this, and also recommends switching your listening device every twenty minutes or so while mixing, cycling through studio monitors, bad earbuds, studio headphones, mono, trashy speaker, so that you get a glimpse into all the angles your mix might be listened to from as you’re working.

I mix exclusively on apple earphones because that’s what most people listen to music on. The best workflow I’ve found is make it perfect there, THEN try it on expensive gear and simply fix anything that is obviously very off and you’re done

I have a pair of 4" PYLE speakers I bought at Amazon for about $10 for this purpose, hooked to a cheap Chinese amp. I have them on an Ableton output and set up a hotkey to switch to them (and usually switch to mono). The BEST feeling is when I have my track sounding pretty good and then I realize I've accidentally left the cheap speakers switched on. I hit the hotkey to switch back to my monitors and I'm blown away...

interesting! I learned a kind of parallel trick in art school for composition and detail work on visual art, it works in painting but also digital art and even modelling / texturing. Look away from the image, flip it upside down and look back at it again. In 3d modeling, move the light sources around the modeling environment, especially to something normally unnatural like lighting it from below, it's a great way literally turn your perspective on it's head, to give a fresh look at something you've been working on for a while!

Very True, im starting to appreciate my Laptop and phone Speakers more

My band's first album final mixes were checked on the bass player's stereo blaster. To this day, the album sounds amazing on that thing, not so much everywhere else... 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

Too often, Cameron goes over my head in some of his deep dives into things, but one thing always happens: his humor--including poking fun at himself--cracks me up every time. And I'm not someone who laughs much (a kinda too serious dude). So I get a twofer: I learn stuff and get some humor therapy. :)

I've always considered "The Car Test" the gold standard of mixing

Stranjah, who is a DNB Producer says in his mastering tips video to play your music everywhere… So, Venus is absolutely correct here. I have listened to my music through car speakers, reference monitors, headphones, and even a mono bluetooth speaker and you can definitely get a feel as to what your music truly sounds like in the real world this way. Thanks Cameron!

YEP!! As a TV composer this is the trick for getting mixes to sound good on TV. One speaker!!

This is similar to stand back and squint your eyes when painting on canvas. You stop being so focused on tiny details and appreciate better the overall composition. The first time I took my music to listen in my car I was so disappointed and couldn’t hear a thing, somehow ended up with the same conclusion: mix on shitty headphones, profit. Always good advice, buddy.

I have a little speaker from an old radio. Works best since years. Cant work without it. Highly recommend!