26. toukokuuta 2009 17:40 Ralf Mardorf <[email protected]>kirjoitti:
> I guess my English is to broken to make it clear. There's nothing wrong > with your mix, just the bass covers the sound a little bit and this might be > because of the Ogg. > > I don't know low-coast mastering studios, especially those studios are > expensive, because they need to get back the money they have to spend for > licences, e.g. the Dolby license. > > I was a professional audio engineer, but for myself I only made and still > make music with home recording and HIFI equipment. > > You should try to master your songs yourself. > > 1. Use JAMin to compress the stereo sum or another multi band compressor. > 2. Listen to the music also in mono, left and right channel added to one > channel, doing that you can hear if there will be any problems because of > phases. > 3. In the forum I read hat you are using an AKG K240, I'm using an AKG > 240DF. Don't trust the basses by this headphone, but you can trust anything > else. > 4. Wear the headphones also left and right reverse. > 5. If you only have consumer speakers (HIFI equipment) try to listen to > different speakers pairs, check the sound while driving a car, while walking > through the room and neighbour rooms. > 6. Compare your mix with a good professional recorded CD that is similar to > your music, resp. to the result you wish to get. > 7. Check out if the output of your amp is the same as the output of your > mixer. Normally the sound is coloured, differs to the sound of your mixer. > there also can be a difference between headphone outputs and the stereo sum > output of your mixer, resp. the headphone output of your amp might differ to > the speakers output. Response characteristic, saturation etc. can be > completely different. Use this disadvantage as an advantage, try to make > your sound fine for different kinds of response characteristics and > saturation. > 8. Check out what will happen to the mix if you just change bass and treble > controls on your HIFI amp, set them to maximum, neutral and minimum and that > at different volume levels. > > This is no howto for a professional studio, but IMO the best way to do the > mastering with home studio and HIFI equipment. > > I'm not fine with Linux reverbs, but jconv, maybe the Arts reverb VST is > fine with Linux, it sounds similar to jconv, but it is an algorithm reverb, > that means you have more ways to fit the reverb to your music, than you have > by using a convolution reverb. > > For 3.0-beta3 I'll try to work only with CAPS, Gverb and what ever is > available, by the way, I also have 19" stand alone equipment, e.g. Reverb, > this are much better than any plugins, anyhow I'll try not to use them, when > working with the studio in the box, especially because I only have two audio > IOs on the Envy24 card I'm using. Listening to a good 19" Reverb can help to > edit a reverb plugin. > > FX also needs the right timing, but listening to your music I guess you did > it right. Fine tuning of drum samples, guitars and different temperate > keyboard maps (if available) can give room to have clean frequencies, > presence (I don't know how to say this on English). For your mixings this > seems to be fine. > > I don't have any solution because of cheap microphones and vocals, my vocal > recordings always sounds a bit like having a cold, but the rest often sounds > like made in a professional studio. > > In a tenant-occupied house recording rock guitars also is a problem, I > don't know how to solve. I often play guitars directly into the mixer. Huge > & Kettner guitar tube pre-amps give very good results, when playing directly > in the mixer, but I don't have some. > > Cheers, > Ralf > Thanks for the tips for mastering with home stereos. I think I'm already doing most of those things. Still, I don't think it is a bad idea to let somebody else do the mastering, with monitors and fresh ears. You know, listening to yourself singing the same piece for the 63rd time the same day can really kill the fun of making music and turn it into an exercise in masochism... I like music that has a lot of low frequencies and that's why my music often turns... to have a lot of low frequencies. But too much is too much indeed. Gotta go now, regards, Tapani
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