the influence i've received from being on this forum non-stop is exceedingly evident in this project.
looking for alaska
metalcore kids.
could probably guess everything that's going on soundwise, I really just wanted to post to see what you guys thought of the DIY master chain on the 2-bus. This was my third/final attempt at a master, after several failed car tests. I think i got this one decent. it's SSL bus comp (master preset, tweaked to taste) > L2 shaving off around 4db, and then ozone shaving off another 4db with a 2db boost.
I tracked with the worst overheads choice imaginable...a pair of AT813s, old electret vocal condensers. I had another pair of SDCs, one of them broke, so I threw these up in a pinch. they really lack the top end sizzle i like in overheads. so i had a super hard time compensating. what i eventually did that somewhat satisfied me was tickled the super high end with ozones mutliband exciter, and THEN compensated by reducing a few DB in the top end in ozones parametric EQ.
overall the whole master is super loud and squashed... I learned alot about psychoaccoustics and "apparent loudness" with this one... i slammed it for beef, and succeeded, and could detect no pumping at all in my RP5s, seinnheiser headphones, or the control room stereo...yet when i played it back on laptop speakers, the pumping was SUPER evident. i'll have to read up on "apparent loudness". lesson learned.
happy as usual to spill any dirt on the mix, just ask.
also the snare is particularly unsquashed for this sort of mix, i compressed it a tad but it was a sample to begin with and it sonically resembled the kids real snare so i left its character intact to make him happy.
*GLITCH DISCLAIMER*
my first, last, and only glitch usage. rip me if you must. i am but a man, and a sneapster at that. :Smug:
looking for alaska
metalcore kids.
could probably guess everything that's going on soundwise, I really just wanted to post to see what you guys thought of the DIY master chain on the 2-bus. This was my third/final attempt at a master, after several failed car tests. I think i got this one decent. it's SSL bus comp (master preset, tweaked to taste) > L2 shaving off around 4db, and then ozone shaving off another 4db with a 2db boost.
I tracked with the worst overheads choice imaginable...a pair of AT813s, old electret vocal condensers. I had another pair of SDCs, one of them broke, so I threw these up in a pinch. they really lack the top end sizzle i like in overheads. so i had a super hard time compensating. what i eventually did that somewhat satisfied me was tickled the super high end with ozones mutliband exciter, and THEN compensated by reducing a few DB in the top end in ozones parametric EQ.
overall the whole master is super loud and squashed... I learned alot about psychoaccoustics and "apparent loudness" with this one... i slammed it for beef, and succeeded, and could detect no pumping at all in my RP5s, seinnheiser headphones, or the control room stereo...yet when i played it back on laptop speakers, the pumping was SUPER evident. i'll have to read up on "apparent loudness". lesson learned.
happy as usual to spill any dirt on the mix, just ask.
also the snare is particularly unsquashed for this sort of mix, i compressed it a tad but it was a sample to begin with and it sonically resembled the kids real snare so i left its character intact to make him happy.
*GLITCH DISCLAIMER*
my first, last, and only glitch usage. rip me if you must. i am but a man, and a sneapster at that. :Smug:
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