Recent content by JayArby

OK, you don’t have all of your faculties, got it.

That's the stuff that I know intuitively from live sound, that I'm having to translate into recorded sound. I'm not working with the greatest source audio so my ear is screaming at me to fix everything, when I need to kind of accept that turds only stay polished until you switch hands holding it...

We don't allow underage drinking, either lol

The "game" with YouTube is the constant content generation, 100%. There's a reason why the rich kids can put together a channel with 1M subscribers so quickly: they have the luxury of treating content generation like a full time job, and they realize that the content they're generating doesn't...

That makes sense. I have been doing some back and forth comparison today using Spotify (don't have the WAV files for what I want to compare it to right now) and I'm pretty close given that my tracks aren't mastered. Made some tweaks and have been A/Bing them with my commuting headphones and I'm...

You seem really, really desperate lol.

Regarding reference tracks, I'd love to be able to get these tracks to sound like the recordings that The New Mastersounds put out there (we're an instrumental prog-jam outfit that's a little heavier than that), because man those albums sound killer, but I'm probably an arsenal of recording...

Right. I originally asked if I should compensate by turning DOWN the bass response on the monitors by 3dB, which would compel my ears to add a little more low end to the overall mix to make it sound “right” when I mix it with a good balance. My headphones aren’t doing me any favors; they sound...

OK. The nearest corner is about 7 feet from my right monitor, and it has a floor to ceiling rockwool wedge in it. I treated the room to accommodate a full-volume band because we rehearse there. The ceiling above the desk has a 4”, 4x6’ framed rockwool panel over it, suspended 3” and mounted to...

OK. The nearest corner is about 7 feet from my right monitor, and it has a floor to ceiling rockwool wedge in it. I treated the room to accommodate a full-volume band because we rehearse there. The ceiling above the desk has a 4”, 4x6’ framed rockwool panel over it, suspended 3” and mounted to...

What’s happening is, I’m mixing what sounds like a nicely balanced mix, but when I listen on other devices, they feel anemic on the low end, and I’m losing the kick drum. It’s more subtle than “the bass response vanishes”, which is why I posited that tweaking the bass detente on the speakers...

You can absolutely post music, you just put your band's logo on a fixed "video". YouTube also has a music subscription service that competes with Spotify (YouTube Music), and millions of people have subscriptions to YouTube, which eliminates the ads. As YouTube's subscription model evolves...

Got it. I've isolated the monitors from the desk, on stands, but they're make of wood with carpet on the top - better than on the desk, but likely still vibrating to some degree. I can get into a matchy-matchy Presonus 8" subwoofer for $200, which isn't a bad price and would be plenty of...

I think this is an important point that a lot of musicians miss (my band included). If you want to promote via social media, you really need to promote on ALL the major platforms. It's painfully tedious to do on your own, though. There are freelance social media "managers" out there who will...

Thanks, Mick. I leave EQ settings on things that have adjustable EQ (such as my van's stereo) flat sort of by default. Things like my commuting headphones don't offer adjustments (they're Presonus noise-cancelling headphones that add low end by default when set to noise-cancelling - they're...