We have spent years teaching church sound people to not mix with headphones on because it has always been important to make the audio sound right “In the room, that is, you need to make it sound right for the audience who is in the room with you.
But now that you are mixing for live-stream, you need to be listening to what the audience is going to hear, and they wont be in the room with you. You need to grab those headphones and even better you should be mixing in a separate location where you cant hear them live.
If you can hear the musicians playing without your headphones then you will naturally adjust your mix to make what you are hearing sound right. Instead, you need to mix so that what is in your headphones (what is going to live-stream) is all that you can hear, and it sounds great.
The vocals are usually too loud on a livestream mix because, in the room you are usually increasing their volume to get them up over the instrument sound that is live in the room.
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