Cell phone mix?

ORIGINAL: Guitzilla

Hello,

I am doing a freebie for our town's visitor's center. They are doing a cell phone tour of murals in our town and I need to record and mix vocals music and sound effects. Does anyone have any advice for the mixing stage so that I can hand them a project that will sound great over a cell phone? Any special frequencies to cut? Should I use alot of compression? Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Brian

Most cell phones don't have any low end so I would say use an EQ to cut the lows way down so they don't swamp the mix, that will let more of the mids and low mids through. May take some testing to get it just right, if you have a audio to phone interface you could send the mix through that to your cell phone and mix like that in real time.

Also, keep in mind this should be mono right ?

ORIGINAL: Guitzilla
Hello,

I am doing a freebie for our town's visitor's center. They are doing a cell phone tour of murals in our town and I need to record and mix vocals music and sound effects. Does anyone have any advice for the mixing stage so that I can hand them a project that will sound great over a cell phone? Any special frequencies to cut? Should I use alot of compression? Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Brian

For a while there I was recording outbound voicemails for a local company. Interesting, actually...

Dump everything below 250 hz or so, and everything about about 7khz. Use a hard limiter to keep transients down.

Listen to it via cell phone before you deliver it. What mechanism will they be using to store it? We were initially told we'd be able to upload the files to an FTP folder on their voicemail machine (it was just a computer in a closet), but that ended up not being possible, so they'd hook up a mic in a conference room while recording off the speaker! UGH!

Good luck!

Corey

Thanks! It is really incredible that I could post something kind of weird and get such great advice.
Brian