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Re: Mastering Questions That Still Confuse Me

Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 7:18 pm
by 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.

Re: Mastering Questions That Still Confuse Me

Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 7:19 pm
by ehbes
SMOR3S wrote:
Electric_Head wrote: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

Re: Mastering Questions That Still Confuse Me

Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 7:21 pm
by SMOR3S
ehbrums1 wrote:
SMOR3S wrote:
Electric_Head wrote: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?

Re: Mastering Questions That Still Confuse Me

Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 7:24 pm
by mthrfnk
SMOR3S wrote:
ehbrums1 wrote:
SMOR3S wrote:
Electric_Head wrote: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.

Re: Mastering Questions That Still Confuse Me

Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 7:25 pm
by ehbes
Well I dont know what that patch entails... A sub in the sense of a pure sine wave needs no eq

Re: Mastering Questions That Still Confuse Me

Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 7:29 pm
by SMOR3S
ehbrums1 wrote: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

Re: Mastering Questions That Still Confuse Me

Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 7:33 pm
by ehbes
I'm the not person to ask about specific eq... The extent of my eq is hp lp

Re: Mastering Questions That Still Confuse Me

Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 7:34 pm
by ehbes
I'm not saying I've been talking out my ass... I just don't enjoy producing overly "clean" tracks

Re: Mastering Questions That Still Confuse Me

Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 7:35 pm
by baddaBOOM
ehbrums1 wrote:
baddaBOOM wrote:
wub wrote:If your mixdown is hot then you don't necessarily need a 'Mastering' job.
LOL :lol:
What's so funny ? He's right
Lol im just laughing from the way he said it, im not laughing at him :lol:

Re: Mastering Questions That Still Confuse Me

Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 7:38 pm
by SMOR3S
ehbrums1 wrote: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...

Re: Mastering Questions That Still Confuse Me

Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 7:46 pm
by ehbes
If you don't have food monitors or cans just check your mix on as many different systems as you can

Re: Mastering Questions That Still Confuse Me

Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 7:51 pm
by SMOR3S
ehbrums1 wrote: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...

Re: Mastering Questions That Still Confuse Me

Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 7:54 pm
by Brothulhu
SMOR3S wrote: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

Re: Mastering Questions That Still Confuse Me

Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 7:58 pm
by SMOR3S
Brothulhu wrote:
SMOR3S wrote: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 ^__^

Re: Mastering Questions That Still Confuse Me

Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 8:11 pm
by SMOR3S
What do you guys use, to convert your .WAV to .MP3?

I was looking into this, it uses LAME..

http://www.freac.org/

Re: Mastering Questions That Still Confuse Me

Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 8:11 pm
by ehbes
Audacity

Re: Mastering Questions That Still Confuse Me

Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 8:16 pm
by SMOR3S
ehbrums1 wrote:Audacity
Ya, I don't think car CD players, can play .WAV files ^__^

Re: Mastering Questions That Still Confuse Me

Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 8:27 pm
by mthrfnk
SMOR3S wrote:
ehbrums1 wrote:Audacity
Ya, I don't think car CD players, can play .WAV files ^__^
Lul wut.

Re: Mastering Questions That Still Confuse Me

Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 8:28 pm
by SMOR3S
mthrfnk wrote:
SMOR3S wrote:
ehbrums1 wrote: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..

Re: Mastering Questions That Still Confuse Me

Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 8:32 pm
by mthrfnk
SMOR3S wrote:
mthrfnk wrote:
SMOR3S wrote:
ehbrums1 wrote: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.