12-11-2015, 10:07 PM
(11-11-2015, 05:41 PM)The_Metallurgist Wrote: ...liking the vision here very much. i'd clean up some of the low end that's creeping into the stereo though, it's tending to cost you some clarity and separation in the mix, especially in mono. perhaps it's your stereo reverb that's upto mischief perhaps (low-cut it?)....or maybe cutting some material out of the low end in the guitars panned to the sides?
nice musical dynamics and changing energy patterns too...cool. but in a way you've overdone it, with too much ooomph on occasion; one moment i'm turning the volume up, the next i'm having a heart attack because it's too loud. i get the idea you are looking for though
great move on the cymbals - is it my ears or is there some phasing going on...something not quite right?
wicked!
As my room is not treated (only my monitors with ARC 2 and my headphone with Reference 3), I usually struggle with the low ends. Sometimes too much, sometimes not enough... I need to practice more.
The last album I was listening was Steven Wilson's Hand Cannot Erase, which he didn't master at all. I'm really against that loudness war with over compressed audio. So I mastered to get the choruses at -10 dB RMS and leave the verses pretty soft. I like the contrast between them, it makes the song more alive to me.
I only EQ and slightly compressed the cymbals. The two crashes are not equally placed in the stereo field, so that's maybe the reason ?
Anyway, thanks a lot for your feedback
