After working on, obsessing over, nit picking, and re-re recording my first full length cd for the last 3 1/2 years I am facing the very real posibility of BEING DONE!!! OH MY GOD!! But I want to throw out one question to anyone who feels like they may have some advice.
My mix is as good as I can get it short of being perfect. I COULD spend the rest of my life tweaking it, but perfection will never come. I am happy with it. BUT....when I burn it to cd and play it in my home stereo the highs don't sparkle and the lows are too big. The mids are perferct, though. And when I play that same cd in the car, it sounds bad ass, but just a bit too much down low still.
My question is: Should I try to fix this imbalace myself now and risk more obsessing, or should I send it to a mastering engineer before I decide to loose another year of my life to this? I am after the best possible result and I am afraid that if I keep going over it I will end up doing more harm that good.
Thanks all!!
My mix is as good as I can get it short of being perfect. I COULD spend the rest of my life tweaking it, but perfection will never come. I am happy with it. BUT....when I burn it to cd and play it in my home stereo the highs don't sparkle and the lows are too big. The mids are perferct, though. And when I play that same cd in the car, it sounds bad ass, but just a bit too much down low still.
My question is: Should I try to fix this imbalace myself now and risk more obsessing, or should I send it to a mastering engineer before I decide to loose another year of my life to this? I am after the best possible result and I am afraid that if I keep going over it I will end up doing more harm that good.
Thanks all!!