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Hey gang,
any good audio books on this subject you can recomend?
id like to get a deeper understanding on this!
cheers
Luis
--- Bill Fox <billyfox@soundscapes.us> wrote:
> Krispen Hartung wrote:
> > I've been doing a lot of mastering and mixing
> lately on a project and
> > have learned a lot of new methods and techniques.
> I've heard folks
> > say mastering and mixing is a black art, now I
> know why. In these
> > particular songs, they sounded wonderful on my
> headphones. There were
> > some really cool and deep things going on in the
> 44hz range and below,
> > and some others in the 62hz range. It all sounded
> great through my
> > headphones, but those frequencies were reeking
> havoc on my consumer
> > stereo systems - car stereo, portable stereo, etc.
>
> Hi Kris,
>
> I recommend that you do not mix using headphones.
> That is an even more
> phony environment than stereo speakers. Speakers
> pushing air to your
> ears is closer to how you hear a live event than
> headphones.
>
> Mixing and mastering are two different processes. I
> recommend that you
> do not master songs one at a time in isolation. One
> ought to master an
> album's worth of songs together. Not all at once
> but as a set. How you
> want to volume balance, equalize, and compress
> things is very dependent
> upon the song order. Concentrate only on mixing.
> Save mastering for
> last and use a pro if you can afford it.
>
> If you are having bass region problems, there could
> be many reasons; the
> system, the speakers, speaker placement, the room,
> and on and on ad
> infinitum. I'd look at what track in the song is
> supplying the bass
> that breaks up in certain systems. Work on that
> track's EQ and
> compression then remix the song. Can you mix using
> your portable
> stereo? If if sounds great there, that's how 90% of
> your audience will
> hear the song. Then compare the result through you
> regular studio
> speakers and then headphones. Listen to your mixes
> in as many
> environments as possible.
>
> Take what I and everyone else tell you with a few
> grains of salt and
> experiment on your own. Mixing *is* a black art.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bill
>
>
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