thomaswomas
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Hi, it's been a while since I've been on this forum but thought this would be a great place to ask this question.
I've been writing some music along the lines of the movie trailer sound cos I'm really into the big cinematic sound of some of those composers. One guy I really like is Zack Hemsey. I love the fact that he has created some great pieces of music without having real strings or choir etc. Basically all the stuff that the top hollywood composers are privileged enough to use on a regular basis. But his music still competes with all the other guys in my opinion and he really brought a fresh approach to the trailer music genre.
So I started remixing one of my tracks and used his track 'Mind Heist' as a reference (the one with the BRAAMS!). One thing I have noticed is the EQ of the track which makes it 'seem' much louder. It sounds like there is a lot of mid EQ's in the track. I always remember a really great producer telling me that the top American Engineers/Mixers really like to crank up the mids and high frequencies to make a mix sound louder. I am definitely hearing it in this track. It's still got a lot of punch though. I imported the track into my session and lowered the volume so I had a realistic reference. But even when both tracks are hitting the same db level on the meters his track still sounds much louder and jumps out much more.
I realise his track will have been professionally mastered and you can see the level pretty much stay in one place during the bigger sections (although the peaks on the wave image don't look squashed like a lot of other loud music I have listened to) but I'm wondering whether the mastering engineer pushed the mids and highs or it's more down to compressors and limiters to achieve this level. Or was the track mixed with this mid\high EQ boost and therefore already 'seemed' louder before mastering?
Here is a section of the Zack Hemsey Track (lowered in volume to match my mix)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/omy1znenz5e6x0a/Mind Heist.wav?dl=0
Here is a snippet of my current mix
https://www.dropbox.com/s/phj99kvn0mnst8q/MASTER_04.wav?dl=0
Here's a pic of the my meter comparison. My track is on the left
And here is a pic of the files in the session showing the wave levels
I'd love to hear anyone's thoughts on this
Thanks
I've been writing some music along the lines of the movie trailer sound cos I'm really into the big cinematic sound of some of those composers. One guy I really like is Zack Hemsey. I love the fact that he has created some great pieces of music without having real strings or choir etc. Basically all the stuff that the top hollywood composers are privileged enough to use on a regular basis. But his music still competes with all the other guys in my opinion and he really brought a fresh approach to the trailer music genre.
So I started remixing one of my tracks and used his track 'Mind Heist' as a reference (the one with the BRAAMS!). One thing I have noticed is the EQ of the track which makes it 'seem' much louder. It sounds like there is a lot of mid EQ's in the track. I always remember a really great producer telling me that the top American Engineers/Mixers really like to crank up the mids and high frequencies to make a mix sound louder. I am definitely hearing it in this track. It's still got a lot of punch though. I imported the track into my session and lowered the volume so I had a realistic reference. But even when both tracks are hitting the same db level on the meters his track still sounds much louder and jumps out much more.
I realise his track will have been professionally mastered and you can see the level pretty much stay in one place during the bigger sections (although the peaks on the wave image don't look squashed like a lot of other loud music I have listened to) but I'm wondering whether the mastering engineer pushed the mids and highs or it's more down to compressors and limiters to achieve this level. Or was the track mixed with this mid\high EQ boost and therefore already 'seemed' louder before mastering?
Here is a section of the Zack Hemsey Track (lowered in volume to match my mix)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/omy1znenz5e6x0a/Mind Heist.wav?dl=0
Here is a snippet of my current mix
https://www.dropbox.com/s/phj99kvn0mnst8q/MASTER_04.wav?dl=0
Here's a pic of the my meter comparison. My track is on the left
And here is a pic of the files in the session showing the wave levels
I'd love to hear anyone's thoughts on this
Thanks
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