bouldersoundguy
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Again, sounds just like my relationship with my son...
And it sounds like a Monty Python sketch to me.
Again, sounds just like my relationship with my son...
You don't disagree? Then why the arguments on this and other threads.
Mark Twain said;
"It's easier to deceive people that to convince them that they have been deceived"
All manner of clinging to misguided ideas can ensue from this principle. It explains extreme defensiveness.
You guys are ridiculous.
+++What Farview said. If my mastering limiter does more than a few dB of reduction and/or I'm hearing stuff I don't like before it's loud enough I go back to the mix. Things that can be done include limiting tracks or buses, cutting lows, automating peaks down. But those can also start to degrade the mix so it's a matter of balancing one thing against another. Often it's a combination of multiple approaches, each applied sparingly, that gets it done.
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Just to add. Think about what you're actually trying to acomplish. There's adding a 'mastering' phase -even if only for the sake of learning- totally leggit BTW. Along this process, it leads to questions, things to be sorted out, not only with regards to what you might do 'mastering a song, but things that lead back to the mix (It was your mix, presumably as good as you thought it could be, but now you are attempting to take it further.. :>)
Then there is 'mastering to get a bunch of songs to play well as in an album. That introduces possible changes to songs aimed more at making them flow well together. Things (levels, eq?) Improving perhaps, but not necessarily fixing'.
One of the things a new -second set of ears brings- as opposed to us, where we're up to our necks in our mixes.
I took a listen to the auto master vs the original.
I didn't have time to read through all of the replies, so my apologies if this has already been brought up. I'm assuming you used AAMS based on the way it outputted the file name. I've used it before as well and got what I considered decent results. But I still had to go back in and re-tweak. Especially when it came to the loudness management. AAMS did a poor job of that, and you can see it in how your song is clipping all to heck, sometimes above +2dbfs. yikes!
But your song here doesn't need much in the way of mastering IMHO. Even running it through AAMS might have been overkill
So I did a quick master for comparison (it's also my schtick ... I was dissatisfied with the auto mastering stuff, but couldn't afford a "real" mastering engineer, so I spent 8 years learning how to do it myself). For this, I used Melda plugins. The only standing issue was phase, which I didn't deal with due to time. Since there is some grit in the original, I stuck with as clean a sound as I could. My goal was to breath some life into the track without changing it too much since I thought the mix was pretty good to begin with.
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Distortion was there in he original. Perhaps I smashed it a little too much as well. I didn't spend much time on it. Just trying to show a quick master can beat out auto mastering.