Martin , <div>Thank you to answer me with very interesting details, it's super appreciated :)</div><div>It's very cool from you to provide me/us how you do in general for mastering multiple songs all together and from different styles all combined,</div>
<div>On internet i found mostly details and information for mastering but one track only or individually ... </div><div>I never used Samplitude,</div><div>I used Cakewalk daws from 2003 till 2007, </div><div>I m impress about the result of your work, with no effect from Waves or UAD,PSP, Manley rings the bell tho ...</div>
<div>but then it s not those devices only who make the result but the talent of the one who you are using them...</div><div><br></div><div>One stupid question : do you 'automate' some effect?</div><div><br></div><div>
For instance in my song; does the 'second (hard) part' get more compression than the first part or a different compressor ?) </div><div>I guess Paul Punkdisco has one <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Focusrite Liquid Mix but I m not sure, will you advice this device to buy for the price and quality of it ?</span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse"><br></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34)">To come back about my mixing and your advices, </span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"> I must make the remark that playing digital instruments only on one song has its " + " compare to record acoustic stuff only or acoustic and digital all together,</span></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small">So first of all I try to record my stuff without noises and clicks then: </span></span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse">I'm mixing first with normal Sony speakers that I know since I'm 14, then AKG headphone, then my semi professional Tannoy (bass freq are not really representative with them imo) ... then i turning in round with this configuration and change details softly... </span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse"> I'm glad that you told me about the low content cause I used a High Pass on each track and also when i had to prepare the song for the mastering I always had one eye on the </span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> frequency analyzer </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34)">... So after your tip : I should cut more :P </span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse">Anyhow my living room ( where i record and mix)is not acoustically isolated properly for mixing ...</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse">Of course I can do some installation for the purpose if it s needed but then my place becomes something not really livable anymore except if music is your life :)</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse">One more question; (all on your honor ) </span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse">Did anyone in the past wanted to pay you to master their tracks ? :P</span></font></div>
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</span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Martin Naef <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mnaef@navisto.ch" target="_blank">mnaef@navisto.ch</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Romain<div><br>
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On <a href="tel:26.02.2012%2010" value="+12602201210" target="_blank">26.02.2012 10</a>:43, Romain / rXg wrote:<br>
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<a href="http://rpm.music-bar.org/2012-02-26%20mp3%20preview/" target="_blank">http://rpm.music-bar.org/2012-<u></u>02-26%20mp3%20preview/</a><br>
Thank you Martin,<br>
Your work always impress me :)<br>
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You're welcome. It's just a pair of fresh ears that does the trick... ;-)<div><br>
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Now that you did some work on it what will you advice me to do or to<br>
correct for the next time when I'm mixing my own song ?<br>
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I think your mix is fine. You might want to watch the bass a bit - I had to cut the low content by quite a bit (actually, that was a problem with nearly all tracks) to clean up the mix. It's not easy to spot with regular size monitors, but the frequency analyzer made it quite clear, and everything sounded better once I applied some high-pass filtering.<br>
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Other than that, you might want to clear a bit more space for vocals in the mix, especially during the high-power section. There is not much I can do about that at the mastering stage.<div><br>
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Anyhow I listened to the other tracks they sound very good ...<br>
Maybe you mentioned it in the past but what do you use in general for<br>
mastering ?<br>
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Software, essentially. I'm using Samplitude for all my mastering tasks including the generation of audio CDs.<br>
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I don't always follow exactly the same procedure. For this session, each track had its own pair of compressor and EQ from the Focusrite Liquid Mix - a DBX 160 and a Manley Massive Passive emulation. Some tracks also used the transient shaper from Samplitude (AM-Pulse) - in some case to emphasize the attacks, in others to smoothen them a bit.<br>
In general, compression wasn't set up aggressive, but I applied EQ very liberally to force a common sonic footprint.<br>
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The rest of the chain was in the master section and shared the same parameters. First, a touch of multi-band compression was applied (Cakewalk's LP64). Then back into the Liquid Mix, this time with a LA-2A emulation in limiter mode. Next step was a hint of tape emulation (Samplitude AM-Track). And finally into the limiter (Cakewalk Boost11).<br>
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None of the compression stages really do a lot - usually just 1-2 dB, 3 if it's a bit hot. The final limiter also shaves off only 1-2 dB typically, and only on occasion. But in total, the compression adds up quite a bit.<br>
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I have to admit, it was quite a bit of fun to run a larger mastering project. It's been a while since I've done anything in the electronic music domain.<br>
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(Now, a quick addition, then exporting the project...)<div><div><br>
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Martin<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Romain<br>
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