karumba
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ehm...of course, i randomized all my statements.Aha, so those are your secrets......
thx!Welcome to the site Jan, there are some great people here, and thanx for the great job!
kcearl
I see deaf people
hey guys,
i'm jan, the ME how did the mastering of joes album. he kindly pointed me to this thread and i'm glad to get so much cool feedback. thank you!
i have to say, that i enjoyed the mastering very much - its an fantastic album, its currently on heavy rotation in my car. joe has really great songwriting skills, a fat guitar sound & i like his voice very much.
there were some questions regarding the mastering i would like to answer:
as joe already mentioned, i normally listen to the stereo-bus mixes to get an impression. then i decide if i can achieve a solid sound on that or if stems are needed to go into more detail. joes mixes were ok, but i wanted to have stems to get the most out of it, so i could e.g. do de-essing on the vox, fatten it up by saturation or smooth out the drums (esp. the metal-section) a little bit & glue it with the bass. on guitars i mostly made small modifications, just to get the tone which i felt supports the track most.
on stereobus there are mostly a lot and very small optimizations. the processing-chain is never the same, e.g.
- rough EQing
- very little multiband
- smaller EQing to prepare for compression
- singleband compression
- some tape-style saturation to make the sound more "organic"
- further EQing
- again singleband-compression (which is sometimes a little bit pumping/breathing to support the groove)
- M/S EQing and/or comression &
- finally limiting
all in all i roughly used maybe 30 plug-instances per track. maybe 20 for the stems & 10 for the stereobus. no magic polish, just ears, an acoustically optimized room that translates, the right tools (i'm mastering completely ITB) & knowing which direction (soundwise) makes sense.
regarding levels, we decided not go beyond 10-11dB RMS, which is "on the lower bound" of current rock/metal releases, of course not too low, but sound is more important & we all have volume-knobs
if you have further questions, pls let me know
ciao,
jan
Hey Jan thanks for chiming in and interesting to read you processes as this is a part of the production Im just starting to understand..
maybe Ill send my first one your way in 2018
kcearl
I see deaf people
joeym
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