so my deejay friend wants me to clean up a few of the tracks from a live laptop set i did and produce them as start to finish singles for him to send to his label mates.
what i'm wondering is: what will these folks be looking for and how shall i tailor the tracks to suit them?
currently the tracks are just loops from reason and logic that i was triggering on my ibook using Ableton Live while playing jazz guitar.
the url for the live set is here btw http://www.boze.net/mp3 <-click on the track called 'secret garden' at the bottom.
so anyway, i've read in sound-on-sound and other places that when mixing a track one should leave out compression and other types of stuff that would be better done by a real mastering effort in a studio.
should i make this track as if i was going to be the last person to polish it up or what?
i've mostly just done reason tracks, normalized in Peak and then pumped things up in T-racks.
as part of the process for these tracks i'll likely be moving to Nuendo as a place to combine my reason loops and rewired stuff with some live trumpet, guitar and bass. so starting from there, what should i do to the track and what should i not do to it so that the label ppl can still master it properly if they need to?
hope this makes sense and sorry for my lack of familiarity with all this.
what i'm wondering is: what will these folks be looking for and how shall i tailor the tracks to suit them?
currently the tracks are just loops from reason and logic that i was triggering on my ibook using Ableton Live while playing jazz guitar.
the url for the live set is here btw http://www.boze.net/mp3 <-click on the track called 'secret garden' at the bottom.
so anyway, i've read in sound-on-sound and other places that when mixing a track one should leave out compression and other types of stuff that would be better done by a real mastering effort in a studio.
should i make this track as if i was going to be the last person to polish it up or what?
i've mostly just done reason tracks, normalized in Peak and then pumped things up in T-racks.
as part of the process for these tracks i'll likely be moving to Nuendo as a place to combine my reason loops and rewired stuff with some live trumpet, guitar and bass. so starting from there, what should i do to the track and what should i not do to it so that the label ppl can still master it properly if they need to?
hope this makes sense and sorry for my lack of familiarity with all this.