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:
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> 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:
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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.
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>> https://on.soundcloud.com/jSdgj
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>> This is the result - it is actually quite a big improvement in terms of
>> freq balance.
>>
>> What do you think ?
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>> Anyone else got experience?
>>
>> Best wishes
>>
>> David Newman
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