[LAU] [OT] Help with mixing and mastering?

James Stone jamesmstone at gmail.com
Mon May 11 15:41:25 EDT 2009


On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 07:13:25PM +0200, Peder Hedlund wrote:
> Quoting James Stone <jamesmstone at gmail.com>:
> 
> 
> > Well, our first studio track, which was recorded by a student
> > engineer in a semi-proper studio on protools, then mixed and
> > mastered by a professional engineer is here:
> >
> > http://www.last.fm/music/kitten+cake
> >
> > mp3 here:
> >
> > http://drop.io/dont_call_her_baby (password: kc09)
> 
> 
> Unless you made something really weird when encoding the mp3, I'd  
> really suggest you avoid the "professional engineer" in the future.  
> The track is so badly compressed and brickwall-limited it distorts in  
> several places.
>

I can't really hear a difference between the wav and the mp3, so
you are probably right. The audio does hit 0dB a lot.

I have the original audio files imported into ardour, and it
would be good to hear (and see) how someone else would approach
mixing/mastering it (or a part of it). Let me know if you (or
anyone else for that matter) are interested.

James



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