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Alright i got a quick question, so i made my song did the mix down sounds nice on head phones and my speakers ,then when i get it to 2 of my friends car it very quite and i have to turn it up much more than all the other songs , what my question is is this just a poor mixdown or somthing else im missing, when im in ableton all my trackts dont go into red and they all are loud on there, any thoughts ??
thanx

it hasn't been mastered .. normalize it or add a limiter before rendering and testing on systems

Read the moneyshot stickied thread if you haven't already, should explain a lot.

Everything is mastered on how i was taught(through dtf) all levals where are where there supposed to be no freqs should be clashing with one another so im at a lose on what to do check my music for input and feedback http://soundcloud.com/djdeadbeats

trust me i have ... thats where i learned how to mix, but if this is just case of frequencies being mixed around ill fix it if not tell meh what i need to do ha

I have a similar problem at the mo.
Only able to work with headphones at the moment and I always have to re-level everything once I listen on another setup.
It`s got to the point that if I listen to my tracks on my headphones after I have leveled them on a different system, everything sounds top heavy.
I trust the reference speakers over my headphones which really bums me out.
Time to buy some new monitor headphones/monitors.

OP, What did you use and how did you use it to master it?

i uae ableton and used all its plug ins

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There is a difference between getting a track mixed down and professionally mastered. As long as your track sounds clean, well proportioned and consistent that is about as far as you can take it. You cant compare your tunes to other professionally mastered tunes. As stated above if your playing it to your mates and stuff, have a slap a limiter on it to increase the loudness but its no substitution for getting it mastered.

thnax for the reply ill check out some of these ideas