Hey guys, I'm an idiot , just sent my reply to Julien to Julien only... and don't even have a copy... oh alright, he forwarded ;) So I don't have to write all that again... Yes, always the snare... well I'll give the higher freqs a boost as a start, was already thinking about that, but decided not to do because on my cheap speakers it sounded well... the still cheap but more expensive near field ones said i could but don't have to. Mastering: Well the levels are at -0,1 db, which is the highest level that doesn't cause massive clipping when encoded to mp3 and decoded. (once tried that). Yes... I know, mp3... but people don't have ogg players, least not in hardware. Ok, looking closely at the exported wavs lets me see a few peaks, that could be compressed without changing the general sound giving me some extra ~2db. I didn't use sum compression this time, only limiter. Well to let you know, what i've done at all: -created buses for front and backing vocals, drums, guitars and bass and routed the corresponding tracks to them. -created inserts for every bus except drums, + one in master -created inserts for bassdrum, snare, floor tom and overheads. -started an instance of jamin for every insert -adjust the compressor fast and high threshold so it has minimal effect. -soloed a track and started searching for 2-3 frequencies that sound exceptionally good or bad when really boosted in jamin grahpical eq with a small bandwith -moved that up/down a few (2-3) db -gave the compressor knee --adjust ratio and threshold -raised the attack and release Ok I've found the first mistake... didn't bypass the compressors in master insert. still jamin default settings. That is a good reason why levels except a few peaks are so low... the peaks went through the huge 100ms default attack, the rest is leveled down... ...never do a mix in a rush. So, now I'll read the other statements. Good to have some feedback, this will surely result in a better album. /mn0 On 15.06.2012 21:31, Jason Jones wrote: > Thanks for sharing. First off, the performances were top-notch! Drum > timing / guitar chugging / and most importantly, the vocals sounded > well, done too! Good job on the performances. The recording and > mixing, on the other hand, could use some help. The drums sound flat > and lifeless (which is a shame, because the performance of the drummer > was *awesome*!) - especially the snare. It's almost non-existent. It > should be much more present. The guitars kind of sound a bit dull. > It's almost like the higher freqs of just about everything was EQ'ed > down. (like, say 5k and above??) It could also use mastering. The > levels are very low. > > Again, thanks for sharing! Hope that was helpful. > > --Jason > www.advancedbudgetstudios.com <http://www.advancedbudgetstudios.com> > > On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 1:00 PM, mn0 <mn0@xxxxxxxxxxxx > <mailto:mn0@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > > Hi LAUs, > > I proudly present you the first single we ever made. > And we made it with Linux, of course ;) > > It's called What It Means To Me. > check out in English http://deathrokk.com/wim2m > or German http://deathrokk.com/wim2m_de > or just one-click-download the free mp3 > http://deathrokk.com/wim2m_mp3 > or download ogg files > http://deathrokk.com/wim2m_ogg > > We have some other 18 songs recorded. > 12 besides the a side of the single will be on our upcoming album. > We have a bunch of video material from the recording. > The documentary on it will be online, as soon, as we've captured all the > tapes and cut them etc. I'll tell you, when it's there. > > If you think there are some obvious flaws in the mix, that we should > avoid on the album, now is your turn. Because now we can still > change it. > That doesn't mean you have to search too closely. > Our whole studio excl. instruments is less than 1k€, so advices to use > Neumann mics as overheads won't help. > > Anyway, I just wanted to share what we've made with wonderful tools like > rt-kernel, ardour, jamin and jack... > Thank you, devs and contributors. > enjoy! > /mn0 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > <mailto:Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user > > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
