due to rough times financially - i've found myself mastering my own material. i know this is a cardinal sin on many levels, but it is what it is.
i figure, the best way to try to get my songs to sound as good as possible is grab a few wavs of professional bands i like, study their frequency curves using Voxengo's SPAN and then try to match that in mine.
happily, it appears there's a lot in common, frequency-wise, between all of these. a nice roll-off at the low-end and high-end and then an almost straight line across all frequencies in between, with little or no jumping or spiking. this is where my tunes vary the most. i have lots of small spikes (probably could have done a better job compressing ind. tracks) and my tunes always seem to have this dip in the mid-range area from about 200hz up to 1/1.5khz.
here's my Question: if i slap an eq on the master bus and, using a fairly wide Q, pull up those frequencies in the middle a few db's - is that going to introduce an "artificial" sound? would i be better off trying to tweak ind. tracks - or just leave it as it is?
i figure, the best way to try to get my songs to sound as good as possible is grab a few wavs of professional bands i like, study their frequency curves using Voxengo's SPAN and then try to match that in mine.
happily, it appears there's a lot in common, frequency-wise, between all of these. a nice roll-off at the low-end and high-end and then an almost straight line across all frequencies in between, with little or no jumping or spiking. this is where my tunes vary the most. i have lots of small spikes (probably could have done a better job compressing ind. tracks) and my tunes always seem to have this dip in the mid-range area from about 200hz up to 1/1.5khz.
here's my Question: if i slap an eq on the master bus and, using a fairly wide Q, pull up those frequencies in the middle a few db's - is that going to introduce an "artificial" sound? would i be better off trying to tweak ind. tracks - or just leave it as it is?