New Metal Song Finished, Determination |
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New Metal Song Finished, Determination |
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Jun 27 2011, 02:10 AM |
Glad you like it It's a very spiff plugin (that's also very easy to go overboard with so be careful) called IZOTOPE OZONE. There are TONS of similar plugins that do very similar things. Everyone has their own preferences of course. But give OZONE a shot to see what you think. You can apply it to a mix after your done in a very easy way.
1.)Start a new reaper project (you don't have to, but it helps keep things separate) and import your AIF or WAV or mp3 or whatever you exported when you mixed. (Avoid MP3 at this point if possible, but if it's not possible, meh.) 2.)Apply Ozone and experiment with the existing preset then start tweaking the controls once you find a starting point that you like. You can save your own versions of presets for later which is handy 3.)Export your new "Tweaked" mix. (MP3 is fine at this point for web distribution) You can apply it to individual tracks of course, or apply it to the "Two Bus" inside your mix instead of doing a "Mastering" pass. But the latency can increase doing it this way, especially in REAPER which is why I suggested the method I did Here is a link to download the Demo, Mac an PC. http://www.izotope.com/products/audio/ozone/download.asp Todd |
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Jun 29 2011, 09:20 PM |
I updated the song again! I redid the solo and remastered it.
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Jun 30 2011, 10:08 AM |
Yes you do have to be very careful with Ozone as it can get nasty if you push it. Be aware that the presets in Ozone are quite extreme and flip very quickly in to distortion and artefacts. TBH the settings for the presets are too extreme and just don't work for the vast majority of audio. Use them as a starting point by all means but listen very carefully and be prepared to make quite major changes to those settings. Also be aware that any processing that you do here - particularly on the 2 bus will be extremely difficult to alter or correct at a later stage. Put another way if you intend to do any more production on the track and/or master it later then you generally should not add processing on the 2 us. If you're mixing then mix and work at getting the mix as good as you can BEFORE you make any attempt to master . -------------------- Get your music professionally mastered by anl AES registered Mastering Engineer. Contact me for Audio Mastering Services and Advice and visit our website www.miromastering.com
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Jun 30 2011, 08:58 PM |
I can't think how much more it could be improved. Kinda want to go to a new song now.
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Jul 1 2011, 09:56 AM |
I can't think how much more it could be improved. Kinda want to go to a new song now. I'm afraid that there is no such thing as the perfect mix. They can always be improved albeit that it takes experience to know how, what and why and to determine whether or not the extra effort is worth the improvement. Keep on practising your mixing on this, or other tracks and build up mixing experience. -------------------- Get your music professionally mastered by anl AES registered Mastering Engineer. Contact me for Audio Mastering Services and Advice and visit our website www.miromastering.com
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Jul 1 2011, 04:44 PM |
You mean even with the pros we listen to on the radio and in their CDs? I've heard it said that there's no perfect mix, and that is because a song can be mixed a lot of different ways. What do you think? Does it have a lot to do with the sound you want? More mid, more bass, etc... Even those - though here you also have to keep in mind that the track that you hear has also been mastered and that you may not be aware of what the producer was trying to achieve. Nonetheless if I listen critically to any commercial CD that we have I can hear mix and production issues. These can range from very minor mix issues about spectral balance etc, through more obvious ones such as unintended noises/artefacts, imaging, etc. through to make issues concerning levels, distortion, etc. For the last three months or so the magazine has been running a regular article about critical listening of selected, commercial tracks. BTW most mixes don't need more mid/bass etc but less. It relates to Todd's comment of boom - a common mixing mistake is to keep increaing the bass just because you can't hear it properly but without taking in to account the ability of your speakers and room acoustics to accurately present bass and sub bass frequencies. If you can't hear it properly than you can't make a proper informed decision on what to do. Also - mixing on headphones is rarely a good idea. They do not present the stereo image and soundstage accurately and cannot present the full 20-20kHz spectrum properly. Whilst they may be better than your laptop speakers try and get a proper set of monitors if you want to carry on mixing and recording. -------------------- Get your music professionally mastered by anl AES registered Mastering Engineer. Contact me for Audio Mastering Services and Advice and visit our website www.miromastering.com
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