Mastering

samuel, what are you monitoring with?

>>74938945
with my headphones and the tv-monitor's speakers. why?

>>74939062
just curious.
consider getting some proper monitors or sending off your stuff elsewhere for mastering

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>>74939110
pls help get a better master myself
forgot to mention, headphones are akg k414p

>>74939127
it's really unbalanced in the bass and both files are harsh in the 2-4kHz region.
also both sound stressed and smashed while not being actually loud.

>>74939205
it does sound like too many high mids for me, but i didnt eq it, decided to wait for do it after peoples feedback, cause last time they said it was lacking mids.
the "mastering" i'm doing is adding analog plugins and limiting
how i fix the bass
>also both sound stressed and smashed while not being actually loud.
it does to me too. how do i get that right

>>74939252
stop adding analog plugins and limiting
all that tense high mids most likely come from distortion components of shitty modelling plugins and pushing a limiter

start fresh, try to balance it and make it sound as good as you can without limiting or touching the dynamic range in any way

then pull it up to the desired level and damage control to make it sound as close to what you had before limiting

>>74939304
is this any better?


>all that tense high mids most likely come from distortion components of shitty modelling plugins and pushing a limiter
thats the situation. fuck slate digital.

>start fresh, try to balance it and make it sound as good as you can without limiting or touching the dynamic range in any way
how? only eq and reverb is left.

>damage control
wut? limiter with significant release?

forgot link
https://clyp.it/ixcsgjmz

you have to tame the bass with an eq
it takes a lot from the whole mix, that's why you probably hit your limiter so hard yet receive not much volume

>>74940163
just the bass freq of the bass? like 100hz?

>>74940548
yes, try to take away from freq's under 120hz

you should also keep at least frequenzies under 100hz in mono, unless it's for artistic purposes. low freq's in stereo can cause some weird and muddy sounds, but also make your kick and bass lose impact

>>74940690
that is really cool. everything below 120hz on the master is 100% mono now.
https://clyp.it/4ofzsjpa
the bass really lost impact when i added a stereo chorus to it but i couldnt think of doing that.
are the battery-radio-high mids ok now?

>>74941118
very nice dude
it's starting to take dimension. the vocals have a lot more volume now!

what's probably missing a bit is some trebble to give it that "high end" sound. you might simply boost up above 5900hz or maybe apply saturation for that range, if you have a plugin for that

The drums sound like shit but it's okay otherwise

>>74938899
No.

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>>74941957
pls

>>74941703
its that "loudness" knob on the slate limiter, i cranked it

boosted 2db after 5.2khz

https://clyp.it/n3chjsfs

changed the "highs" knob on the limiter, seeing if it changed anything to the previous link
https://clyp.it/xw3vmsan
looks like youre afk, think ill release this version, its a lot better already. thanks a lot everybody.

don't do your own mastering. ask a friend. seriously, you need objective ears.

>>74943612
thats what ive been doing for the last entire 3 days but /mu/ wont do it for me