Went up to Airshow Mastering with my studio partner yesterday to play some tracks and see if they'd be interested in mastering a project I've mixed. Quite the room.
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Jimmy, I'm interested in checking these examples out but busy at work and leaving for vacation soon. Can you leave these up for a bit longer?
Have a great vaca! Doing anything super cool? Though any vacation is just that...
I sent them as two separate tracks instead of a zip file. So they are on two pages with separate download links. Click Right Tab for second mastered version.
Rock climbing and touristing at Yellowstone, Grand Tetons, etc. I'll post a vid for you when I come back.
Both versions sound good so the mastering step wasn't very critical IMO. The Gateway master is a tiny bit more cohesive, the vocals especially jump out a bit less iun the mids/lower mids. That seems to translate to the acoustic as well. It does seem smoother but I wouldn't say it makes the song work any better than your Home mix.
Don't like the song (fwiw).
Yeah I had a hard time noticing any significant difference I kept playing A&B through various parts and yes maybe in a few spots the vocals were more present...but hell I mean we are talking splitting the hairs off of a gnats ass...Guess what I'm saying is You done a damn fine job alls on your own son!
I'm old so I guess I can tolerate country more...the song was AOK to me...
Here's screen shot of the waves compared
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