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Loud and Clear - mixed & mastered - Stickman - 12-10-2014 Hey Guys, this is my Version of "Loud and Clear". I was a little bit to late to hand it in to the audio technica mixing contest, but i want to share it here. Let my know what you think about my mix. Cheers, Eric RE: Loud and Clear - mixed & mastered - Voelund - 15-10-2014 You ceartainly made a loud mix. Too loud if you ask me. Verse and prechorus are kinda ok, but chorus are so squashed its not perceived louder, as I think it should be. You have a cool bright sound on all, are the acoustics a bit too loud in verses ? My advice is: back off the limiter a lot - only take 1 or 2 dB in mastering. You have close to no dynamics in this. Sound of your mix I think is very good. RE: Loud and Clear - mixed & mastered - Stickman - 15-10-2014 Hey, thanks for your comment. I know what you mean, the refrain is really squashing. I haven't recognized that before. What i try to do in the mastering process is to bring up the song to a common level of volume, some EQ changes and dynamic editing. I compare the level of the mastering output to a reference song i choose, and try get nearly to the same volume level. Attached you will find the mixdown of the song. As you can hear, the volume is far a way from the common level of commerce songs. RE: Loud and Clear - mixed & mastered - Voelund - 15-10-2014 And the sound is SO much better ! The most important volume boost in in the listeners power, the one he reach out for when a good song is on the playlist. Listenin now the kick is bigger than rest o the kit, includin the snare, maybe the overheads should be little louder. Or instrument bus could come down a dB ? The brass is a bit loud too I think. Vocal lvl could come up a tad in chorus. Thx for postin this much clearer mix RE: Loud and Clear - mixed & mastered - Voelund - 15-10-2014 Not that Im any kind of expert in mastering, but I know what I dont like and used to do: squash the mix. My new approach is some kind o saturation, Often its some UAD plugins not doin anythin but havin the music go through them, the Pultec, the LA2A, the Fairchild. Then a compressor to event things out before limiter, compressin most o the time with fairly long attck and release, 90ish atck and 1500 release, set to rms mode. Then an eq and limiter last, takin some 2 dB at most from loudest part of song. It works for me but I know not evrybody would agree with this RE: Loud and Clear - mixed & mastered - Mike Senior - 29-10-2014 Had a listen to the mixdown version here, and it feels rather bottom-heavy. I wonder whether you can hear what's going on down there. It feels like it's pumping some kind of buss compression slightly unnaturally too, but maybe that's my imagination... Cymbals feel a bit overwhelming too in the balance too, and the piano and acoustic guitar could do with sustaining more, I think. |