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My advice for new engineers making home recordings is to learn about phase and phase correction. With the loudness wars going, a good way to have a punchy loud recording before you even get to the mastering stage is to really check carefully the phase on all microphones during the recording and align them perfectly on the Digital Audio multi-track software you're using so that there are no (or hardly any) frequencies cancelling eachother out.
When the phase is not aligned properly, it really hurts the bass, the recording sounds thin.
But taking careful care of the phase during the recording process will put you ahead of other recordings in terms of punchyness and loudness so you wont need that much compression in the mastering process to be as loud as everone else.
Also, try to use a multi-band compressor in the mastering process rather than a traditional one. That way you can use different levels of compression for each frequency range and avoid that "pumping" effect and retain as much dynamics as possible.
When the phase is not aligned properly, it really hurts the bass, the recording sounds thin.
But taking careful care of the phase during the recording process will put you ahead of other recordings in terms of punchyness and loudness so you wont need that much compression in the mastering process to be as loud as everone else.
Also, try to use a multi-band compressor in the mastering process rather than a traditional one. That way you can use different levels of compression for each frequency range and avoid that "pumping" effect and retain as much dynamics as possible.
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