You guys are right, I take back what I said

gilligan204 wrote: depending on what sample rate your listening to at the studio, my guess its atleast 24 bit / 48 Khz as most guys are using that atleast , what happens is when they give you a cd the studio has to downgrade the audio to put it on a CD. Your listening to better audio quality , and a room built for sound when your in the studio .

I find that after stuff is mastered properly, you start to get the effect of hearing the mix the same way every time

Take a CD that you really know and have a listen to it in the studio, see what it sounds like.

Ask the engineer and see what he tells you about this problem, then let us all know what he says

There is a possiblity that the monitors in the studio are colored (alesis monitor ones, everything I reecorded on them sounded amazing until I listened to it at home)

uhhh................. no. Absolutely not.

What IS happening is that you are hearing why mixing is NOT a
no-brainer.

Your mixes are not "translating."

This means that you are mixing too much for the room and monitors you are on. For a mix to translate is must sound good everywhere. It will NOT sound the same (exactly) anywhere..but a great mix translates well everywhere.

In other words... a great mix on NS10's should be bright..with not a lot of info below 80hz, and vocals loud. Because that is what those speakers sound like. If you were mixing on them in a room with poor bass response and made the mix fat and full your mix would sound dull and bass heavy everywhere else.

It has zero to do with the difference between (example above) 24bit/48Khz and 16bit/44.1Khz.

RecorderMan, is absolutely right! Every one of us who is worth the salt on their recordings, monitors through numerous different monitor speakers including bouncing out to our cars. Many of us need many different frames of references to make our mixes translate well to everything. It sounds like you're definitely compensating for inadequate monitors and bad room acoustics? Basically it all comes down to the directions to Carnegie hall. Practice Practice Practice and one day may be your mixes will sound like something other than crap?

We were all there once like you. Thank God it was only once!
Ms. Remy Ann David

Monitoring through Grandma's Bel-Tone

Try listening through grandma's bel-tone. Forget ADAMs & Genelecs.
The clarity that is bel-tone is unsurpassed & reigns supreme.
:shock:

Seriously...

You'll want to check your mixes on at least as many systems as you have access to.

A regular pair of computer speakers or cheap headphones would be a good place to start to check your mixes on, because you are used to them, and because a good portion of listeners will probably be using something similar. And you probably have those things lying around already.