Sound Like The Radio

mmm.r u using monitor speakers and mastering the finished product.
All speakers an headphones are set to different frequencys depending on the manufacturer.

Yes. long boring story short. Headphones are likely to have frequencies boosted or cut accordingly to make anything that goes through them sound half decent (for exapmle i know my sony headphones produce the sweetest sounding bass even if everything is flat on the eq).

So the only way to listen to a true representation of what your stuff will actually sound like is getting monitor speakers that have the flattest response possible.

From that bench mark, proceed to test it on a home hifi or something. then your car. It’s a bunch of loops and round-abouts testing it on different systems but your headphones are most certainly not the end-all and be-all of assessing the produced sound.

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Mixing with Headphones isn’t bad, it depends on the headphones themselves, they should be ‘Open’ and not ‘Closed’, but as a rule all mixes have to be A/B on different setups, whether that is through a DVD player on a TV set, an old (preferably rough sounding) ghetto blaster, or in the Car.

You should first of all Mix in mono for the frequencies, then mix in stereo for the placement. The Headphone route is excellent for the placement of sounds but must be checked against monitors always.

As Juggernaut said… the manufacturers want their product to sound best in some way, and unless you pay in the region of £200+ for a pair of Studio capable (not Vocal means as in Beyer DT’s) headphones then it will always be hard. Try Sennheiser’s Open Backed sets.