Home Recording Tips And Tricks, A Thread about Home Audio / Video Recording
Todd Simpson
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As hardware and software get cheaper and cheaper, more and more is available at a very reasonable cost. This thread will talk about various techniques and tips for getting the best possible sound out of your home recording gear.
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MIXING AND MASTERING:

Some of you may notice that your recordings don't seem loud enough. This is something every musician has to work through when doing their own production. The secret is in mixing and mastering. Once you have done your initial "mix" it's time to master! What is mastering? It's the final step in the mix down process before "Authoring" or burning, uploading etc.

Here is a link to a great Wiki article on Mastering

WIKI- WHAT IS "MASTERING" IN AUDIO?

Here is a spiff graphic to illustrate the audio meter bridge you typically see in your DAW or Editing Software


You want to try to get close to "Unity Gain" or 0 DB without going over and creating clipping or distortion in the overall signal.
One way of doing this is to use a "Mastering Plugin" there are many available. I really like the IZOTOP OZONE plugin. It sounds great and has a tone of useful presets. The presets are not perfect but are a great place to start tweaking from. Here is a look at the Ozone Interface.
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Here is a link to download the demo. It is cross platform and works in most software as a plugin. Give it a try just starting with some of the presets You'll be shocked at how much it can improve your overall mix especially at first. Be careful not to overuse it though as you will compress your sound too much and crush it.
LINK TO DOWNLOAD OZONE
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Interested in "Mastering"? Don't know where to start? Using izotope ozone? (For the home recordist it's a killer tool, download the demo if you have not ever used it, here is the link https://www.izotope.com/products/audio/ozone/download.asp) The nice folks at OZONE have released a great tutorial/document on Mastering with OZONE. For those working in a home recording set, (like me) this is a great way to make your demos/backing tracks/collab tracks sound AWESOME! They should give me something for pimping them but sadly they don't. sad.gif But despite that, I still love this plugin.

http://izotope.fileburst.com/guides/Mastering_With_Ozone.pdf

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