How to master... ambient track?

[Scorge]

Hey guys,

A buddy of mine asked me to master this short little intro for him. I'm relatively new to mastering and I'm wondering what you would do to this track.

I've done a couple different masters on it, it's been interesting though because it's so atmospheric.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13786721/Discover Atlantic - Everything Is Arbitrary (Intro).wav

Right click on the webpage and hit "Save as" to download the audio file, if anyone wants to have a go at it.

Cheers,
- Zac

 

[propman]

I'm not a mastering engineer so I can't really give you any advice...
I just wanted to mention that I think the track is really cool.
It sounds like an ocean of expanding (but very gentle) sound waves.

 

[kcearl]

Hey guys,

A buddy of mine asked me to master this short little intro for him. I'm relatively new to mastering and I'm wondering what you would do to this track.

I've done a couple different masters on it, it's been interesting though because it's so atmospheric.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13786721/Discover Atlantic - Everything Is Arbitrary (Intro).wav

Right click on the webpage and hit "Save as" to download the audio file, if anyone wants to have a go at it.

Cheers,
- Zac

theres not really much to master if this is how the tune remains throughout...Id stick a limiter on it and bring up its volume


does the tune have many more parts coming into play?

 

[Waltz Mastering]

As long as the low end translates good you should be ok. I like to keep intros sometimes a hair lower than the song they precede... which gives the next song more impact. It's relative.

 

[Scorge]

Thanks for the replies. I only received this track, it's the intro to a music video he's working on, not sure how the rest of the song follows. I did a couple things to it, mostly just bringing up the loudness. Either way the individual was happy with how it sounded.