Looking for mastering and eq tips to improve this track
Shunpo
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Posted : Jan 21, 2012 17:31:48
Hello people, i recentyl started this track. I think it's fine but i think it also lack something that pro tracks have and this might be something about mastering i want to add mass to whole track but i dont know what to do
this is the track and btw any feedback is welcome =)
knocz
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Posted : Jan 21, 2012 18:34
That a nice track dude!
Not much I can help you on the mastering side, but think of what you want to achieve and then think of a way to do it!
I thing the low end is less powerfull then the rest, and you might want it to be big in that section.. Try just a bit of compression on the kick bass (less than 2 ratio, use the attack and release wisely), and take a tad bit off the other sounds. towards the end they mud up a bit, probably you could do some more freq killing in the final section to make everything fit well together without clashing frequencies.
Also the drums are a little too prominent, I'd put a little room reverb on them (very low dry/wet settings) and a bit of saturation, just to make them glue together and with the track.
"Composer-wise", the part at 3.09 goes down and then back up, you could have on of your synth lines coming in in this part, like raising the cutoff frequency, or setting a big LFO on the pan and reduce the amount of LFO until I all comes back again at 3.34.
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Posted : Jan 21, 2012 23:34
that what you are searching for, my friend, lies in the production area, not mastering. seems your lower mono field is not very powerful, because of the combination of your kick/bass combo. focus on that first way longer before you even think about mastering.
one more thing i want to mention and to help improve your mixing is this comparing with commercial songs. those are mastered and do not representate the state of a mix you can take comparison on. i dont wanna say you shouldnt listen to other tracks to compare, but focus on production, on rhythm and mixing when you do that. you simply dont achieve that sound at mixing stage.
thats why it is better to improve and invest in your monitoring and envoirement first, if you hear what you are doing, your mix will improve automatically. mastered tracks will always sound better
Shunpo
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Posted : Jan 22, 2012 01:57
Well i thank you for your attention to this topic, but honestly i have no idea how to boost low mono i produce tracks with experience and hearing i dont have any techinical knowledge so please tell me how i can boost low mono?
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Posted : Jan 22, 2012 19:10
You can raise the Gain, use an EQ, compressors, etc. on the kick and bass channels, but my favorite way and one that many people agree is not to raise that at all, but to lower everything else Super Banana Sauce http://www.soundcloud.com/knocz
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Posted : Jan 22, 2012 20:59
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On 2012-01-22 19:10, knocz wrote:
You can raise the Gain, use an EQ, compressors, etc. on the kick and bass channels, but my favorite way and one that many people agree is not to raise that at all, but to lower everything else
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your low mono comes from your kick/bass, try to achieve a more powerful sound from it, it will automaticly increase.
so please tell me how i can boost low mono?