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So Soundcloud offer dolby generated masters with some tweaks in style that you can choose - the tweaks are are naffly named. I spent £4.99 on one and went with the more bass orientated ’Thunder’ setting which is designed for giving a lower end and more bass punch. I chose this partly because the track as it stood was poorly mixed and mastered with a really hissy/high end energy and no bottom. https://on.soundcloud.com/jSdgj <https://on.soundcloud.com/jSdgj> This is the result - it is actually quite a big improvement in terms of freq balance. What do you think ? Anyone else got experience? Best wishes David Newman ___________________ www.truthtable.co.uk <http://www.truthtable.co.uk/> | analogue electronic music www.audiobulb.com <http://www.audiobulb.com/> | exploratory music www.audiomoves.com <http://www.audiomoves.com/> | ambient music sync specialist

Still sounds terrible in my opinion, but the CR78-type isn't the friendliest hihat ever. Your track doesn't suffer from a mixing problem, but from a balancing one in the first place. Lucky you, if you still have your separate channels, here's how to cure them — don't sleep on it : this video changed my life : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLH6LswcBV4 On Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 1:31 PM David Newman <dwnewman@clara.co.uk> wrote:

quoted 35 lines So Soundcloud offer dolby generated masters with some tweaks in style that

> So Soundcloud offer dolby generated masters with some tweaks in style that > you can choose - the tweaks are are naffly named. > > I spent £4.99 on one and went with the more bass orientated ’Thunder’ > setting which is designed for giving a lower end and more bass punch. > > I chose this partly because the track as it stood was poorly mixed and > mastered with a really hissy/high end energy and no bottom. > > https://on.soundcloud.com/jSdgj > > This is the result - it is actually quite a big improvement in terms of > freq balance. > > What do you think ? > > Anyone else got experience? > > Best wishes > > David Newman > ___________________ > > www.truthtable.co.uk | analogue electronic music > > www.audiobulb.com | exploratory music > > www.audiomoves.com | ambient music sync specialist > > > > > > >

I do mastering and I'd do it for $5 a track for friends. More for commercial releases. Pretty much every automatic mastering tool sucks hard. The whole point of mastering is having someone else listen with fresh ears to make your track sound as good as it can, and hit commercial loudness targets. Having a machine try and do it might be occasionally OK. But do me a favor and either learn to do simple mastering for yourself, or pay someone to do it for you. Case in point -- when I'm in a hurry to upload a track and don't want to do a full mastering job, I use the Ozone 10 Wizard on tracks. But every time I do they don't sound right to my ears until I go in and tweak each stage in the mixing chain. Ozone10 always rolls off sub-100HZ bass too much, and will jack up the high frequencies like a sound man with hearing loss from mixing too many shows. And then it likes to use 2 different limiters in series, both hitting the signal way too hard. You tell it a target loudness - I use -14LUFS - and it blows right past it into -10LUFS territory every fucking time. On Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 6:31 AM David Newman <dwnewman@clara.co.uk> wrote:

quoted 35 lines So Soundcloud offer dolby generated masters with some tweaks in style that

> So Soundcloud offer dolby generated masters with some tweaks in style that > you can choose - the tweaks are are naffly named. > > I spent £4.99 on one and went with the more bass orientated ’Thunder’ > setting which is designed for giving a lower end and more bass punch. > > I chose this partly because the track as it stood was poorly mixed and > mastered with a really hissy/high end energy and no bottom. > > https://on.soundcloud.com/jSdgj > > This is the result - it is actually quite a big improvement in terms of > freq balance. > > What do you think ? > > Anyone else got experience? > > Best wishes > > David Newman > ___________________ > > www.truthtable.co.uk | analogue electronic music > > www.audiobulb.com | exploratory music > > www.audiomoves.com | ambient music sync specialist > > > > > > >

I'll consider him, then, once I finally finish making a track. I've had ideas kicking around and yet I just don't know if I can pull them off fully, as I'm newer to synth patching to where I know how most knobs would work on a Minilogue xd, but after that I'm lost. Hopefully sometime soon I can make a song I'm proud of. -Eileen On Sun, Feb 19, 2023, 1:36 PM Charles Terhune <crtdot@icloud.com> wrote:

quoted 69 lines Kent is being modest. I love his mastering work. Very very good and very

> Kent is being modest. I love his mastering work. Very very good and very > reasonable rates. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Feb 19, 2023, at 1:40 AM, kent williams <chaircrusher@gmail.com> wrote: > >  > I do mastering and I'd do it for $5 a track for friends. More for > commercial releases. > > Pretty much every automatic mastering tool sucks hard. > > The whole point of mastering is having someone else listen with fresh ears > to make your track sound as good as it can, and hit commercial loudness > targets. > > Having a machine try and do it might be occasionally OK. But do me a favor > and either learn to do simple mastering for yourself, or pay someone to do > it for you. > > Case in point -- when I'm in a hurry to upload a track and don't want to > do a full mastering job, I use the Ozone 10 Wizard on tracks. But every > time I do they don't sound right to my ears until I go in and tweak each > stage in the mixing chain. Ozone10 always rolls off sub-100HZ bass too > much, and will jack up the high frequencies like a sound man with hearing > loss from mixing too many shows. And then it likes to use 2 different > limiters in series, both hitting the signal way too hard. You tell it a > target loudness - I use -14LUFS - and it blows right past it into -10LUFS > territory every fucking time. > > > On Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 6:31 AM David Newman <dwnewman@clara.co.uk> wrote: > >> So Soundcloud offer dolby generated masters with some tweaks in style >> that you can choose - the tweaks are are naffly named. >> >> I spent £4.99 on one and went with the more bass orientated ’Thunder’ >> setting which is designed for giving a lower end and more bass punch. >> >> I chose this partly because the track as it stood was poorly mixed and >> mastered with a really hissy/high end energy and no bottom. >> >> https://on.soundcloud.com/jSdgj >> >> This is the result - it is actually quite a big improvement in terms of >> freq balance. >> >> What do you think ? >> >> Anyone else got experience? >> >> Best wishes >> >> David Newman >> ___________________ >> >> www.truthtable.co.uk | analogue electronic music >> >> www.audiobulb.com | exploratory music >> >> www.audiomoves.com | ambient music sync specialist >> >> >> >> >> >> >>