My Track Sounded Awful On Internet Radio

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Great Song!

When you mastered your mix, did you try to clean up the tone by pulling out a lot of frequencies between 250hz and 350hz? If so, I think that is what caused the pumping sound because anything left below that was the thump of the kick, with almost no attack. When the radio station put their multiband compressor on it, and of course they were using the "Awsome" preset, it caused the low end to be really isolated.

I am probably way off base here, but I made that mistake once and it caused a similar problem.

Thanks for sharing.
 
I heard the song and I think it sounds good. I liked the mix
 
Sonic Misfit said:
Great Song!

When you mastered your mix, did you try to clean up the tone by pulling out a lot of frequencies between 250hz and 350hz? If so, I think that is what caused the pumping sound because anything left below that was the thump of the kick, with almost no attack. When the radio station put their multiband compressor on it, and of course they were using the "Awsome" preset, it caused the low end to be really isolated.

I am probably way off base here, but I made that mistake once and it caused a similar problem.

Thanks for sharing.
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Thx for listening...but no...I didn't pull stuff out at that range during mastering. However, I did pull quite a bit in that range from the kick during the mix...and probably the kick is a bit soft as a result. I'm still thinking it was a massive amount of sub lows in the kick that caused the pump.

And I was all set up to record the station if they played it again...but of course...they didn't :-)
 
Straight PRETENDERS vibe....from vocalist to stylistically....

My stuff gets a lot of play on the NET...and even my most critical works seem to not sound quite right...people love it, so maybe we just crit ours more harshly....

For example on Computer speakers I never hear the BASS whether from new mixes to what comes from the internet station....

I just let it go and move on....Tune sounds cool on my Computer...You are overthinking it I believe
 
Yep, it is the subs of the kick drum hitting a compressor. It is sucking the life out of the track. It is evident the whole way through actually.

Send them a new version without the kick so boomy.
 
It actually sounds OK on computer speakers, but on monitors the kick is out of balance. I'd drop the low end on that kick about 6db, try leaving the rest as it is. That alone might do it. I hear the bass guitar OK.

Nice tune
 
I beg to differ.

Unless you know the details of the internet radio transmission chain, adjusting your mix to suit what might be a low bandwidth, overly compressed medium is a bad idea. To keep the internet radio happy, you may end up destroying your mix for any other form of playback.

The vast majority of internet radio sounds like shite and is not a good way to judge the actual quality of your mix.

I suppose if you can do a special version just for them, okay...but for general distribution, play it on lots of system and trust your own ears.
 
Bobbsy said:
I beg to differ.

Unless you know the details of the internet radio transmission chain, adjusting your mix to suit what might be a low bandwidth, overly compressed medium is a bad idea. To keep the internet radio happy, you may end up destroying your mix for any other form of playback.

The vast majority of internet radio sounds like shite and is not a good way to judge the actual quality of your mix.

I suppose if you can do a special version just for them, okay...but for general distribution, play it on lots of system and trust your own ears.
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That is the point though. It is really heavy on the kick drum even before the internet radio made it more obvious. Fix that. :)
 
jimmys69 said:
That is the point though. It is really heavy on the kick drum even before the internet radio made it more obvious. Fix that. :)
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Exactly, the mix sounds fine with the exception of the kick drum, its not catering to their play back, fix the kick first and see how it goes.

Running mixes around will drive you crazy. A mix should be made 90% on a good set of monitors well known by the mix engineer. How it transfers after that is how it should sound on those different playbacks, and hopefully good if the engineer is good.

I know guys that never check their mixes, they mix on good quality near field monitors and that's it. Done. I gotta tell you, their stuff translates great, they have the experience and confidence.
 
In fact, I'm one who will mix on my monitors and not worry about trying it elsewhere.

But...and it's a big but...I've had the same monitors for several decades and know them inside out and backwards. Even with the best monitors there's a learning curve to work out how things need to sound in the studio to also sound good on a wide variety of other playback devices. Obviously they won't sound the same on a wide variety of playback but at least you can make them sound good.

As for this particular track, apologies for not listening to it properly--we're going to be moving in the new year and my studio gear got packed up before my recent stint in hospital, limiting me to computer speakers or cheap headphones, neither of which are much good for critical listening. Normal service should be resumed in early February, paperwork willing.
 
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