Q: and if so, would you have any thoughts you could share?
A: on 'hallelujah', i decided to START the entire recording process on an EQ setting that mimics the speaker on a smartphone. the reason i did this was to try to have a better guarantee that the arrangement would make sense there (literally no bass). it sometimes stresses me out that that platform is so drastically different from the ones that include the bass (headphones, car speakers, etc). It's almost like if you are doing a TV show and 40% of your audience can't see the color green. If you are making the project on a system where you CAN see the color green, you're gonna have no idea what those greenless viewers are even seeing. Some people check different systems at the very end, and then make 'adjustments', but i figured it's way too late if you check it at the end. so i decided to start the entire process in the bassless mode, to make sure i was making decisions that were strong on that platform. Then turn the bass frequencies back on and then fill in the bass i want for the full-range listeners. This seemed like a good idea but it didn't really go so well and i don't do it anymore. it didn't really harm the sound of the song, but it encouraged me to overthink even more than i normally do