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Just thought I'd share what I learned so we can close this or mark the issue as 'fixed' or whatever... Turns out it's the car stereo. I called my mastering engineer and he suggested getting a sweep tone and burning it to a CD and playing it in the car to see if certain frequencies are...

Idk, I worked backwards and adjusted the volume faders. It must be something with the car stereo, I played it in the office, the living room, thru a boom box, in my studio, thru headphones and my friends studio, sounds great in everything but the car, where it sounds distorted, almost...

Reaper, and yes I have a master fader, I mean basically the default set up with individual tracks and a master fader, us that what u mean? Sorry, still learning all this....

I'm using reaper and I don't have any compression or limiting or any effects at all active . Basically what I did was gather the 5 songs, each one being a mixdown I was happy with, loaded them into my daw, adjusted the volume on each to where they were pretty much the same volume (none if...

Oh, one thing I thought about I forgot to mention. The electric piano part that's distorting was a file record by a buddy of mine, who has been famous throughout this project for recording in the red. I'm fact a lot of what he sent me was so hot, I had to either perform surgery or repair do...

Thanks for the replies, I'll try to post the song so u can hear it, it'll have to be after Thanksgiving tho. I did everything in reaper but used windows media player to burn the disk, that could be the problem. Nothing hit red on any of the faders at any time. I did just try the cd I'm my home...

Crap crap crap. So during the whole process of recording and mixing I've stayed well within - 6 to - 18 db as far as peaks, I've made sure no plugins caused clipping and NOTHING ever got into the red... Everything has been in 24/44.1. When I rendered for cd, to listen in the car, one song...

I don't know what my meters are set to, whatever the default is in reaper. I just know that the meter on the inside peaks at - 12 and the two on the outside, the ones that move slower go up to - 6 but not all the time. Cone to think of it, I don't even know if the outer meter IS rms, I just...

What are the main differences between stem mastering and mixing?

OK, so for the 5 songs on this ep, the peaks average around - 12 to - 6 db and the rms usually hovers around - 6, sometimes going up higher to around - 3. The project was recorded and mixed 24/44.1 which is what I'm going to give the M. E. Unless he will take 32 bit float. Am I in good...

For real? I thought the point of headroom was to give the mastering engineer room to work, I mean everything I've read says to do this...

Im learning what all this means but I had a quick question concerning my mix. OK, I have a mix I'm pretty happy with. I know I'm supposed to leave some headroom. I'm using reaper and on the leval meters, the main one is peak and I'm pretty sure the two on the outside of it is rms (they go up...

I agree wholeheartedly with your last sentence, one thing I've learned is if a song is recorded well, it makes it so much easier to mix and master. As far as vocal riding, the whole reason I got the idea was because in a busy mix some things the vocal seems buried. I've already made room in...

Interesting, so it seems like it does volume automation without the tedious work... I just made a donation to Terry West plugins, he has voc rider, I cam try that to see if it works for me. Waves vocal rider has killer reviews so it seems pretty useful. I guess it would sound more natural...

The name just comes, man. Sometimes it's from a lyrics, sometimes it has nothing to do with the song or the subject matter. Alot if the times it's an idea for a band name I haven't used yet, kind of like the b list of my band name ideas. For electronic music, maybe think of something that...