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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> What do you think ?
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> Anyone else got experience?
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> Best wishes
>
> David Newman
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