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| JoeyEnv |
Alright, anyone who knows me and/or has heard one of my tunes in the Productions forum knows that I am apaulingly bad at mastering. I'm not talking bad here, APAULINGLY bad. Really. I've read countless tutorials on this subject and never seem to get anywhere. So, I thought i'd bring my problem here in a final attempt to cure my mastering blues.
I have included a sample of a tune that I have recently made for guidance:
Ocean Drive
I'm using FL Studio by the way.
Right basically what I need to know is, using the 7 band eq system and the above tune, what would I need to turn the levels to for percussion, bass, synths and strings to make it listenable? Just as a guidance of course.
Any help would be great. |
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| Final Call |
| whoa buddy..very very clippy. I like the feel your going for though :). In FL i use the parametric EQ for all my EQing. And a proper useage of compression as well. When your getting things together make sure that each instrument has their own amount of space. Otherwise..they'll all clash together. Your kick isnt really punching in much too. What i do..is layer 2 kicks. I would have the first one with the low's turned up alil bit high and use a bit of compression as well. Don't you use the DB meter?...it should be showing you if your track is clipping. |
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| Chronosis |
| You realize your track has no dynamics? |
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| Pjotr G |
wow...yeah go easy on the saturation, this is worse than radio.
besides, getting all the individual sound levels right is not something you want to do in the mastering stage. |
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| djlogik |
| You need to mix first and not do all the mixing while you're "mastering." Everything is overly compressed. I love your style, but there's no dynamics due to your overcompression and constant clipping. Kick should be -8db with nothing else and adding the bassline should put it to around -4 or -5db depending on what style you're really going for. Everything just sounds too loud to me though right now. Try doing mixing first and setting the levels first before you actually mastering. |
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| psyklolink |
| yah, before you even think of mastering make sure absolutely no meters are going into the red. the advice above is good, also try rolling off everything below 150 Hz (at the minimum) with a high pass filter/eq on all instruments except the kick and bass. before you start mastering the track, your main level meter should not be going over -3db. work at getting a really good sound prior to anything else...a good mix requires very minimal mastering. |
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| Atlantis-AR |
| quote: | Originally posted by JoeyEnv
Alright, anyone who knows me and/or has heard one of my tunes in the Productions forum knows that I am apaulingly bad at mastering. I'm not talking bad here, APAULINGLY bad. Really. I've read countless tutorials on this subject and never seem to get anywhere. So, I thought i'd bring my problem here in a final attempt to cure my mastering blues.
I have included a sample of a tune that I have recently made for guidance:
Ocean Drive
I'm using FL Studio by the way.
Right basically what I need to know is, using the 7 band eq system and the above tune, what would I need to turn the levels to for percussion, bass, synths and strings to make it listenable? Just as a guidance of course.
Any help would be great. |
You're Not the Master, Grasshopper. :haha:
Why do you want to master your music anyway? :) |
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| Chronosis |
| quote: | Originally posted by Atlantis-AR
Why do you want to master your music anyway? :) |
Why is music mastered anyway? |
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| mzvirbulis |
lol nice!
but its hard to understand that you can produce good music but yet get the basic good sounding part wrong, well you will learn anyway.
keep going man! ;) |
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| DJ Shibby |
| quote: | Originally posted by psyklolink
yah, before you even think of mastering make sure absolutely no meters are going into the red. the advice above is good, also try rolling off everything below 150 Hz (at the minimum) with a high pass filter/eq on all instruments except the kick and bass. before you start mastering the track, your main level meter should not be going over -3db. work at getting a really good sound prior to anything else...a good mix requires very minimal mastering. |
Yeah, roll off everything below 150Hz and you will find yourself with a mix that has instruments with no life whatsoever. |
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| djlogik |
I second Shibby's motion...
Alright so I'm just messing around, but he's definitely right about that. If you cut out the 150hz range on all instruments except the kick and bass, then you are essentially cutting out all the hass frequencies that give sounds their energy. |
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