Full lenght album mastering! Paid Job!

[Mikko Vainiala]

(EDIT: Updated take next post.)

 

[THX1138]

I´ll do a little blind test with my band and we´ll see who´s the best for us.

To avoid being fouled by the different loudness, I suggest you to set all tracks at the same RMS level. That's very interesting!

 

[THX1138]

I've slightly reworked the limiter section to support high loudness without f..king the mix. That's my definitive proposal.
WAV
Thanks All.

 

[AHChris]

I've slightly reworked the limiter section to support high loudness without f..king the mix. That's my definitive proposal.
WAV
Thanks All.

No I thank you, sir! ^^

 

[pikachu69]

This is my initial thoughts through my headphones and laptop.
Might try again with speakers soon.
Guitar had a few rouge frequencies I tried to tame in the mids without effecting overall mix too much. Overall tone has changed a bit more than I would normally do but this is what I wanted to hear. Sorry if I took away from your sound too much.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10584477/new master test.wav

Nigel.

I really like the track.

 

[Mikko Vainiala]

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[samskaf]

Hi Chris,
I'll finish a Mastering draft for the audition tonight, and will send a link to listen.

Best,
--
Sam Skaf
Mastering Engineer, I.T. Specialist
MixLab Media Solutions
Email: Sam@MixLab.net

samskaf.com
myspace.com/samskaf
facebook.com/sam.skaf

 

[samskaf]

Hi Chris,
I'll finish a Mastering draft for the audition tonight, and will send a link to listen.

 

[Mikko Vainiala]

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[samskaf]

Great MIX!
Here you go!
http://www.mixlab.net/SamSkafMaster.wav

 

[samskaf]

http://mixlab.net/SamSkafMaster.wav

 

[Mikko Vainiala]

Hmm, I'd love color it as h-e-a-v-y as possible, but in this case it can't be done real well without stems.

 

[pikachu69]

I have to agree, The only way to make this all it can be would be to have stems, otherwise the tone is going to change...(who says thats a bad thing, as long as its a consistent throughout the album)
I stand by my entry after a second listen as is, unless you provide stems then I give it another go.
Please don't get me wrong, the track is great I really like it!
Cheers.

 

[Pedro Teixeira]

Hmm, I'd love color it as h-e-a-v-y as possible, but in this case it can't be done real well without stems. So here's truer to original with some low-end energy spreading cause it can become easily clumsy or one dimensional.

Btw, I recently made a site for these variations & colorings and it's in my sig now. It's free to test but I'm assuming everybody and their mom tried their best (as do we!) before uploading. So make sure always upload your best mix or master and let's see what happens...

wtf at your site? You give colors to mixes? Do you paint the signal? There's no real info in your website and it just seems to be yet another online mastering service?

 

[Mikko Vainiala]

wtf at your site? You give colors to mixes? Do you paint the signal? There's no real info in your website and it just seems to be yet another online mastering service?

Sure colors and visual meanings could be confusing, like some funnabe taking “brown-sound” as “piece of shit” or some fast schizo reading “blue-note" as a “cop-talk!” Otoh, I supposed everyone knows that “giving colors to your mix” in my site is directly related to music and means similar things as trying different “timbres”, “flavors” or “vibes” in the mix and using different equipment and various techniques to achieve the goal, and thought questioning my site this way was a bit uncalled for. Maybe the prob was that “innovative” thing instead. I can only say that when you realize the method is creative enough you can call it innovative without feeling bad about the “ad” or showing off whitepapers. First domain name I tried to register was “smokeandmirrors.com” though because I felt it describing the technique pretty well.

Btw, I test and try out lot of stuff but I'm no math guy at all. Not trying to be mystic nero or dancing guru either. Like with tube amps, lets say you're making separate local power tube feedback mods...you really don’t think first what it exactly does later to speaker damping factors or transformer saturation curves – the sound alone is important. But of course if the target is later to make a simulation of that system you'll need a hell of a tech to help you out with that. I'm not working with any monster challenges right now, but I have indeed one practical tool (plugin idea) under works for mixing purposes, that I can say. I’m testing it right now with these mastering examples. And I’ve been told that going from Matlab to VST needs some work and money and I thought getting some coins from mastering for that purpose too.

 

[Pedro Teixeira]

I was just being sarcastic, I understand your metaphores... It's just that there's no real info in your website, it just seems like another "auto-mastering" which seems to be gaining popularity nowadays... Prolly wrong, just what I could gather from your website though...

 

[Mikko Vainiala]

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[Liferdrums]

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5057319/AmplifiedHateCenterfold Master.mp3

Hope you like it

 

[Mikko Vainiala]

MASTERED FILES

Notes:

1 & 2 are my favorites, 3rd one is included only because it so damn evil sounding.

 

[Mikko Vainiala]

Hey guise!

I´ll do a little blind test with my band and we´ll see who´s the best for us.

Hey AHChris, what's happening there behind curtains? Just let me know if you got these files and I can move them from my server...