-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/03/2010 10:50 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > I just love everything ever made by Chris Hülsbeck, so it was about time > I did something like this :) > > http://foss.math.aegean.gr/~realnc/files/The_Desert_Rocks.ogg > > Entirely done within LMMS. Half the synths are with Zyn, the other half > with the Soundfont player. > > I suppose the mastering sucks a bit, since I don't know anything about > mastering :-/ Anyway, hope you enjoy.
The mastering is pretty good. I think the plucked lead line (playing at around 3:30) needs to be a bit louder, but that's just my personal preference. In order to master a track effectively, you need to be listening to it at the volume you want other people to listen to it and using the speakers or headphones you intend people to use. Or, to put it this way, listen to it the way _you_ want to hear it. If you're using little earbud headphones to work on a track that you want played in a lounge, then it's going to sound completely wrong there. Then listen to each section critically, asking yourself whether each instrument needs to be louder or softer. Also ask whether there's too much or too little going on in each section. Sometimes you might need a different sound, or an effect on an instrument, in order to make it sound right. Give yourself a break every hour or so and don't listen to anything - you get too used to the sound after a while and make bad decisions. One track I've done (a long time ago) which I think is reasonably well mixed is: http://mabula.net/music/ftl/01_-_Laser_Transport.ogg Listening to it now I'd observe that I could make the hi-hat less sharp (put it through a low-pass filter) and there's an annoying click on the end of the bass notes (heard around 5:45, which may come out if I re-rendered it with LMMS 0.4 as it's an instrument artifact). The glockenspiel (starting at 6:15) is perhaps a bit too close in pitch to the main lead, so it gets confused - maybe separate them out in left/right, or lower the glock down an octave. But the bass isn't too dominant, the instruments don't take over too much, the drum line doesn't get lost or dominate, and the sound effects don't dominate things and punctuate the changes nicely. That's perhaps a biased opinion, but I hope that helps to give you an idea of what I do when I master a track. HTH, Paul -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkzOJv0ACgkQu7W0U8VsXYKLmACgyjXf3pqQ6oRRFJSMlGHyiU2K YQsAoMzSblahSbJMzp8504ls1WaQ9fZL =dZT0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Lmms-users mailing list Lmms-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmms-users
