Cool, thanks for the tip!
See. There is that geological or language thing coming up again. One language has different typical meanings for the same terms that another uses... No big deal. We move forward.
Hahaha, that's what made it easy for me to interpret the question was because I know he's ESL. I feel a lot of misunderstandings would be cut short if we all had our locations set...
When I said normalize, yes, I was meaning this.Yes, one part of 'mastering' involves making a group of tracks cohesive in volume. There is much more to it than just that.
When I said normalize, yes, I was meaning this.
What would be the correct term to "put one or more songs at the same 'aparent' level" other than normalization?
Fuck dood, send me the damn tracks. I can even up the volume in 30 minutes.
Or send it to a pro and get it done right.
Either way, it would be remastering. The best idea would be to go back to the original mixes and master them as the new project.But Jimmy, I really don't understand this. And that's why. When I think about 'mastering' it comes to my mind the final touch of a mixed song in order to make it more commercial, with a louder volume and more compression. OK, so if you are mastering an entire album you CAN put all them in the same output level in mastering process.
But what if a band record 10 tunes along several months and the songs are mixed and mastered in different studios by different engineers as they are going to be released one by one. Then, after a year doing that the band decides to compile all the songs in an album. But they are at different levels because they were mastered in different studios, by different people, in different times. Now suppose that they do NOT want that the songs be remixed or remastered. They want them as is, but only with a leveling of volume.
So how do you call this process? Is THIS that I am referring to. It is called 'mastering' too? Like a mastering of a master? Or remastering? Or what? Or maybe there is NOT an specific name just for this task?
And about the process itself, how it is done when the songs already are mastered? You master it again using only the stereo final version?
Sorry, I am really confused!
Either way, it would be remastering. The best idea would be to go back to the original mixes and master them as the new project.
If you can only get the mastered files of the singles, you are stuck finding the quietest one and turning all the others down to match that volume level.
Either way, since you are making a new master, you are remastering the project.
I suppose my comment pre-supposed that all the songs were as loud as they could get without falling apart. When mastering a single, you can do what ever you want, but generally people will make it as loud as it can be without sounding like crap. Some songs have the potential to be louder than others simply because of the instrumentation and arrangement, other songs will never get that loud without being destroyed. You would have to match the one that can't go any farther, since you can always make something quieter without any sonic compromise.One thing about your comment; if the file is not just an MP3, then there is no reason why you would have to lower the level of other tracks to match. You can always re-master the track that is at a lower level.
Please explain.