Hey, I mixed and mastered Milk Cow Blues but I like the mix somehow more than the master because it has a lot more dynamics and actually sounds more 'like a whole' than the master.
Maybe I compressed it somewhere to hard or just totally wrong, maybe I limited it wrong...
If anybody can tell me I would greatly apreciate it!
MIX:
I panned the piano 30 to the left and the fiddle 30 to the right.
I put only one automation just to get rid of one pretty hard tom part.
I E.Q.'d and compressed all the tracks.
On most I used some reverb.
I also used a delay on the vocal track to make it sound like a 'backing vocal' coming at you from the right.
And I used a de-esser on the vocal track, I don't know if it really was that necessary although.
MASTER:
I used a lot of E.Q. actually,
I boosted a lot, most of the time not really noticeable but to my ears it sounded good.
Some bad frequencies I dropped down.
And a high and low shelf to get rid of unnecessary sub-bass and high frequencies above +-16kHz.
I used a tape saturator to make it a little tougher and louder. (below 1dB)
A normal (one band) compressor to make the mix more like 'one' and also a three band-compressor.
Also I used (sorry for all the 'I' and 'used' ) a stereo expander to get the more midrangy stuff out of the middle (like the vocal, if that was a bad idea, please tell me!).
Finally I used a limiter, here I have to notice something: the kind of limiter I normally would use made my mix only sound worse (normally it would take the clipping and stuff away) so I used the 'Classic Master Limiter' by Kjaerhus which has only a treshold option to tweak.
Maybe I compressed it somewhere to hard or just totally wrong, maybe I limited it wrong...
If anybody can tell me I would greatly apreciate it!
MIX:
I panned the piano 30 to the left and the fiddle 30 to the right.
I put only one automation just to get rid of one pretty hard tom part.
I E.Q.'d and compressed all the tracks.
On most I used some reverb.
I also used a delay on the vocal track to make it sound like a 'backing vocal' coming at you from the right.
And I used a de-esser on the vocal track, I don't know if it really was that necessary although.
MASTER:
I used a lot of E.Q. actually,
I boosted a lot, most of the time not really noticeable but to my ears it sounded good.
Some bad frequencies I dropped down.
And a high and low shelf to get rid of unnecessary sub-bass and high frequencies above +-16kHz.
I used a tape saturator to make it a little tougher and louder. (below 1dB)
A normal (one band) compressor to make the mix more like 'one' and also a three band-compressor.
Also I used (sorry for all the 'I' and 'used' ) a stereo expander to get the more midrangy stuff out of the middle (like the vocal, if that was a bad idea, please tell me!).
Finally I used a limiter, here I have to notice something: the kind of limiter I normally would use made my mix only sound worse (normally it would take the clipping and stuff away) so I used the 'Classic Master Limiter' by Kjaerhus which has only a treshold option to tweak.