09-01-2014, 11:19 AM
Moonwrist,
I get where you're coming and it is not that I disagree about what you're saying in a practical sense. What I'm disagreeing about is the notion that it is my responsibility as a mixer to go ahead and master the track. I do not believe it to be my job to do that. After hearing what I can do with a track with my own mastering and then hearing what an actual Mastering Engineer can do to the same track I have really begun to not even bother with it. I can rarely stand putting any kind of dynamics processing on the master at all. I've got one on this mix, it is running a grand total of 1-2dB of GR. It really is not doing a whole lot of anything. That is all that is sitting on the master.
Voelund,
Thanks for the comments!
Well it is rock right? I mean not like the old stuff, but more modern. Though that still makes it rock which to me means I can turn the RMS up a bit more and be fine right? I
I can hear you about the kick and I actually had a lot of debate with myself about it. The problem I was having was making the kick audible. As a result of that I think I did make it not sound wholely as a part of the kit.
With the delay I could remove the first delay pretty easily. It would require putting in a little more automation and just automating the volume of that mixer track really. It would take me a bit to actually do it though. Funny thing about the delays was they came about because I was wanting just a little extra something with those vocals as they sounded a bit too "dry" for me personally. A simple delay throw worked out really well.
I'm not sure what you mean by more padding exactly. I can maybe get the HF, but I think a few of the parts are already way too bright.
I get where you're coming and it is not that I disagree about what you're saying in a practical sense. What I'm disagreeing about is the notion that it is my responsibility as a mixer to go ahead and master the track. I do not believe it to be my job to do that. After hearing what I can do with a track with my own mastering and then hearing what an actual Mastering Engineer can do to the same track I have really begun to not even bother with it. I can rarely stand putting any kind of dynamics processing on the master at all. I've got one on this mix, it is running a grand total of 1-2dB of GR. It really is not doing a whole lot of anything. That is all that is sitting on the master.
Voelund,
Thanks for the comments!
Well it is rock right? I mean not like the old stuff, but more modern. Though that still makes it rock which to me means I can turn the RMS up a bit more and be fine right? I
I can hear you about the kick and I actually had a lot of debate with myself about it. The problem I was having was making the kick audible. As a result of that I think I did make it not sound wholely as a part of the kit.
With the delay I could remove the first delay pretty easily. It would require putting in a little more automation and just automating the volume of that mixer track really. It would take me a bit to actually do it though. Funny thing about the delays was they came about because I was wanting just a little extra something with those vocals as they sounded a bit too "dry" for me personally. A simple delay throw worked out really well.
I'm not sure what you mean by more padding exactly. I can maybe get the HF, but I think a few of the parts are already way too bright.