It’s Friday! That means it’s time for SMG Viewer’s Comments; my weekly show where I try to answer your comments and questions to the best of my ability!

Sercan Usta Comments: “Glenn the heavier rhythm parts I mix sound great on active monitors (Yamaha hs7) but are a fizzy mess without any body through laptop/phone speakers. Does it lack mids or am I missing something else?”

You need to take into account that laptop and phone speakers sound like shit and have no body on them. They simply don’t have the physical size needed to produce the low-frequency waveforms- it’s just a physical impossibility.

Don’t worry about it too much, stop listening to your own mixes. Go put on a mix from somebody else and compare it on those crappy little speakers. Chances are those speakers will make the mix you really enjoy sound like shit too.