I haven't been mastering very long, and I kind of borrowed this mixer setup in Pro Tools from a youtube video. But I may have some things out of order, IDK.
My main question involves the dynamic range which I can't get above 2 for long term. I have no compressors or limiter on the master, nor on the mix bus inside the mix itself. I only use light compression on individual tracks in the mix. Acoustic music is supposed to be the most dynamic of many genres, so why can't I get the dynamic range higher? I've taken out all the things that would restrict the dynamic range, except a hair of saturation to tame the high frequencies.
Although, it sounds ok to my ears, and maybe I shouldn't be worrying about it all.
In my mastering chain I have the AbbeyRoad Mastering plugin (inside the Abbey Road plugin is a compressor/limiter I am not using), some saturation, an aural exciter and dither.
So this is a print screen of me recording the master showing the loudness meter set at 11 LUFS.
Also the audio file of the song, Jayden's Reel.
View attachment Jayden's Reel master_print-St.mp3
My main question involves the dynamic range which I can't get above 2 for long term. I have no compressors or limiter on the master, nor on the mix bus inside the mix itself. I only use light compression on individual tracks in the mix. Acoustic music is supposed to be the most dynamic of many genres, so why can't I get the dynamic range higher? I've taken out all the things that would restrict the dynamic range, except a hair of saturation to tame the high frequencies.
Although, it sounds ok to my ears, and maybe I shouldn't be worrying about it all.
In my mastering chain I have the AbbeyRoad Mastering plugin (inside the Abbey Road plugin is a compressor/limiter I am not using), some saturation, an aural exciter and dither.
So this is a print screen of me recording the master showing the loudness meter set at 11 LUFS.
Also the audio file of the song, Jayden's Reel.
View attachment Jayden's Reel master_print-St.mp3