Hello!<br><br>Thank you all very much for your tips, I'll be sure to use 'em all!<br><br>Regardning the music: It's all produced/mixed by myself, so the workload should indeed be minimal if all goes as planned. I'll however probably need to do some adjusting anyways but I think mostly it'll all be about adjusting my multiband compressor + gain enough for each song. Awesome tip with the referencemusic, if I sort of "line up" all the tracks to the refereencetrack it'll probably save me alot of time, kind of matching my tracks a bit to a musical frame dynamicswise.<br>
<br>Regards,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 6:01 PM, S. Massy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lists@wolfdream.ca">lists@wolfdream.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hello,<br>
<br>
First, all of what Al said is good common sense stuff.<br>
<br>
When you say "mastering" are you implying that someone else is mixing<br>
and you intend to do the post-processing? Why not go the whole way and<br>
do it all yourself?<br>
<br>
IMHO, it's worthwhile to pause and think about how you want things to<br>
sound *before* even touching anything. Once you have an answer to that<br>
question, it's a very good exercise to listen to a cross-section of the<br>
genre and pick a few reference mixes you feel comfortable with (they<br>
don't have to be perfect, so long as you know what the strong and weak<br>
points are): it fulfils the double role of providing some kind of marker<br>
to ce-centre you when your ears have had all they can take, and forcing<br>
you to think about what you like and don't like in a mix.<br>
<br>
For a whole album, you probably want to do it in two passes, the first<br>
focusing on the songs, the second on harmonising the sound. If the mixes<br>
were well done in the first place, the amount of work should be minimal:<br>
in fact, you probably should worry if you find yourself tinkering too<br>
much with certain aspects of the sound...<br>
<br>
That's all I can think of for now. Good luck!<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
S.M.<br>
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On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 02:42:04PM +0100, Gabbe Nord wrote:<br>
> Hello!<br>
><br>
> In a month or so I'll for the first time in my life attempt to master two<br>
> smaller EPs (my own music should be added). I've worked up a fairly good<br>
> skillset with some parts of the mastering (multiband compressing etc) but I<br>
> need some major help with tips for what I'm trying to accomplish, which is:<br>
><br>
> * I want a similar soundlevel throughout the whole of the EP, eg. I want<br>
> the songs to be similar in strength even if they are dissimilar in<br>
> dynamics/type of song. Some songs are naturally more "aggressive" and thus<br>
> will be a bit stronger, but I want the climaxes in the more easy going<br>
> songs to be as strong.<br>
><br>
> I realise that most of this will be done through the traditional "just<br>
> listen and compare", but I'm wondering if there are any other<br>
> analyzingtools that might ease my work a bit? Like analysing RME for the<br>
> whole song, will that give a fair indication that can be compared amongst<br>
> songs? Fatigued ears and the need for alot of small breaks is calculated<br>
> with, but those difficulties will be pretty testing for me I think with my<br>
> low patience lol, so anything that makes the process easier is good stuff!<br>
> Mastering on my own like this probably isn't that good, I know, but I'm<br>
> looking at it as an opportunity to learn some tricks of the trade.<br>
><br>
> I will be using plugins from linuxDSP together with a few Calf ones and the<br>
> Foo Limiter, so no Jamin etc.<br>
><br>
> Do you have any general tips for me etc? All tips I can get are greatly<br>
> appreciated!<br>
><br>
> Thanks in advance, regards,<br>
<br>
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