FINAL MIX TESTING

Hi all. Does anyone have a tried, true and accurate way of checking out a final mixes sound compatibility in the real world without having to resort to playing on a myriad of different players like a car, desktop speakers, ipods, ipads, home stereos etc?? What I was thinking of is a program that will load the audio file and show a pass/fail graph for each of the above players. I know something like this sounds too unrealistic and fantasy like but I also know the best way is testing on different players ---but--- how do the pros do it? I can't imagine they play the mixes out to all different media players.... I have heard of a K meter...is this going in the right direction? Thanks, Steve

The best thing is to tune your room as flat as humanly possible and then have a plethora of different monitors, headphones and earbuds in your studio.

If your environment is tuned and your ears are trained you can tell if a mix is going to sound good on other systems outside of your studio.

Cj

sven450

I can't totally do the room correction thing so I invested in ARC.  It helps A LOT.  Instead of 10 trips to the car/living room system/boom box, I'm down to just a few..... 

With ARC I'm down to just a few visits to the loo.


But that is another story for another time.

royarn


also I can use it on my laptop without needing an external sound module.

Roy

Isn't it by definition an 'external' sound module?