Hi Floyd. I sugarcoat to the fast, furious and vengeful. All others, I happily share the truth, or at least my version of the truth.

First I listen through the computer speakers and if I like a song then I listen through Sennheiser HD 280 Pro model headphones. I output songs from my computer through a Presonus audiobox to a stereo guitar amplifier and also reference check with a Iphone stereo in the bedroom. I save the truck for last because that is where it usually sounds the best.

That's the process I use to reference my original songs. I have three reference CD's that I will choose one of the three that is the most similar in style and play the reference first in the player in the bedroom and then in the truck. I set the volume and make any eq setting changes with the reference cd before sound checking my cd and compare loudness, balance and eq against.

My CD's normally do not fare well. Vocals are almost always muddy and thin and my favorite instrument used in that song well out front in the mix.

I listened to your album completely through first through the headphones output through my Presonus Audiobox interface. Printed a CD which went straight to the truck.

Your album fared very well with headphones and in the truck as far as loudness, balance, clarity and EQ. Throughout the whole album there was only a word or two of the vocals where they dropped down in the mix. My opinion that is due to the CD source being mp3's rather than waves. There was also an errant note or two that I assume are rendering anomalies. I honestly was surprised the loudness levels between the songs was as good as they were. I think I was able to pretty accurately pick the tunes in which you played acoustic guitar live rather than use a real track and was impressed with how you seem to consistently stay with a core group of instruments just as most albums recorded throughout by all live musicians would do. For example, your piano player sounded like it was the same player on all the tracks as the style and riff's remained similar rather than each piano sounding like a different instrument played by a different player using a different style. Hope that makes sense. What it did do was to add an element of realism and was attention to detail that many may overlook with such a quantity and variety of BIAB instruments to choose from.

I used the Eagles greatest hits volume II to set EQ and volume for your CD and the comparison was more than acceptable in consideration I made your CD from MP3's.

Charlie

Last edited by c_fogle; 08/13/14 06:20 PM.
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