Would someone with a freeware VST mastering plugin please master one of my rock tracks, send it back and tell me which plugin it was and what settings? An export of the settings would be easiest.
We get the settings to how we like them, and a minute or two later, they sound naff. We boost xxHz a bit more until we like it again, and a minute or two later, we don't like it. Again. Or we keep going until the 'right' sound sticks. We break, listen back later, and it sounds naff.
Leave it...
Whatever you do in your studio, keep it simple. Getting to far into settings will have you spending more time twiddling than outputting—and getting frustrated.
This has got to be the unfriendliest music site I've known. How long have you got to post yourself before anyone talks to you? I've seen long threads with answers that have nothing to do with the OP. How about the one that starts off telling us what compression does, but the answers go on about...
Almost everyone new to self-mixing has the problem of the singing being too low-mixed for others to hear the words. Why? We can hear words more clearly when we know what they are, which is the case with our own songs. Tutorials don't seem to deal with that problem
Try this to see how big a...