Mastering Questions That Still Confuse Me

[Hircine]

A good mixdown only needs a bit of compression and limiting for perceived loudness. So yeah, Wub's right. Anything else will be a ME personal thing such as boost to the high end or a slightly mid cut to get all the tracks sounding cohesive.

[ehbes]

Ozone is a mastering suite not an EQ per se.
ReaEQ and ReaFIR are both excellent free options.

Kjaerhus Audio Classic Series is a great pack of free tools.

Thanks... I understand what an EQ is, and how it works, but when it comes to EQing my tracks, idk what approach to take.. Like for example Sub Bass..

Lets say for example, I have 3 notes, on a midi track, with the scale of G2, A2, and B2, what Hz range should they fall under...

Don't eq your sub

[SMOR3S]

Ozone is a mastering suite not an EQ per se.
ReaEQ and ReaFIR are both excellent free options.

Kjaerhus Audio Classic Series is a great pack of free tools.

Thanks... I understand what an EQ is, and how it works, but when it comes to EQing my tracks, idk what approach to take.. Like for example Sub Bass..

Lets say for example, I have 3 notes, on a midi track, with the scale of G2, A2, and B2, what Hz range should they fall under...

Don't eq your sub

I am just using some Sylenth preset called DEEP SUB, and playing the notes out, at a low sub range.. Would that matter?

[mthrfnk]

Ozone is a mastering suite not an EQ per se.
ReaEQ and ReaFIR are both excellent free options.

Kjaerhus Audio Classic Series is a great pack of free tools.

Thanks... I understand what an EQ is, and how it works, but when it comes to EQing my tracks, idk what approach to take.. Like for example Sub Bass..

Lets say for example, I have 3 notes, on a midi track, with the scale of G2, A2, and B2, what Hz range should they fall under...

Don't eq your sub

I am just using some Sylenth preset called DEEP SUB, and playing the notes out, at a low sub range.. Would that matter?

Depends if it has higher harmonics.

[ehbes]

Well I dont know what that patch entails... A sub in the sense of a pure sine wave needs no eq

[SMOR3S]

Well I dont know what that patch entails... A sub in the sense of a pure sine wave needs no eq

Here's a couple of my tracks I am working on.. Do the levels sound nice?

Soundcloud

Soundcloud

Like you can notice, from the audio wave, that I work on the EQ and stuff during the mix down.. All I really use, is a bit of EQ Eight, Ableton Compressor w/ Sidechain, FerricTDS Exciter (For Synths, Cellos, Flutes, other fx.), Focusrite Reverb, and erm ya, Maybe a bit of Melodyne on the vocals, at times, but ya, that's about it :3

[ehbes]

I'm the not person to ask about specific eq... The extent of my eq is hp lp

[ehbes]

I'm not saying I've been talking out my ass... I just don't enjoy producing overly "clean" tracks

[baddaBOOM]

If your mixdown is hot then you don't necessarily need a 'Mastering' job.

LOL

What's so funny ? He's right

Lol im just laughing from the way he said it, im not laughing at him

[SMOR3S]

I'm not saying I've been talking out my ass... I just don't enjoy producing overly "clean" tracks

Oh, I am not saying, I am trying to achieve that either, I am just worried about live set play, when it comes time to play live, would my tracks sound different, then they would on my headphones... I just want to make sure, everyone else can hear what I am hearing, but that is really vague to say that, cause idk what speakers the show will use... I will just monitor out my audio from my laptop, to the speakers, so they will run through my Scarlett 2i2...

[ehbes]

If you don't have food monitors or cans just check your mix on as many different systems as you can

[SMOR3S]

If you don't have food monitors or cans just check your mix on as many different systems as you can

I am not saying I have an amazing setup.. Currently I am using Monoprice 8323's and a Scarlett 2i2.. Last month I was still using SteelSeries headphone, so these cans are a lot better, and I honestly would compare them with the HD202's...

[Brothulhu]

but when it comes to EQing my tracks, idk what approach to take..

the link I posted on the first page would probably help you

[SMOR3S]

but when it comes to EQing my tracks, idk what approach to take..

he link I posted on the first page would probably help you

Going to burn a CD, and play it on my car speakers to see how it sounds... I don't have a receiver for my stereo speakers atm, so I hope this isn't a bad test example :3

And, thank, I'll check that link out ^__^

[SMOR3S]

What do you guys use, to convert your .WAV to .MP3?

I was looking into this, it uses LAME..

http://www.freac.org/

[ehbes]

Audacity

[SMOR3S]

Audacity

Ya, I don't think car CD players, can play .WAV files ^__^

[mthrfnk]

Audacity

Ya, I don't think car CD players, can play .WAV files ^__^

Lul wut.

[SMOR3S]

Audacity

Ya, I don't think car CD players, can play .WAV files ^__^

Lul wut.

Sounds funny right.. For some reason it's not detecting the files on the CD hmm..

[mthrfnk]

Audacity

Ya, I don't think car CD players, can play .WAV files ^__^

Lul wut.

Sounds funny right.. For some reason it's not detecting the files on the CD hmm..

Just burn it as an audio CD not data CD... wav files are just a package format for the audio on regular CDs so if burnt/ripped correctly you lose no quality.