Re: Powered Subs...on to mastering

["L.A. Angulo" <labaloops@yahoo.com>]

Hey gang,
any good audio books on this subject you can recomend?
id like to get a deeper understanding on this!
cheers
Luis


--- Bill Fox <billyfox@soundscapes.us> wrote:

> Krispen Hartung wrote:
> > I've been doing a lot of mastering and mixing
> lately on a project and 
> > have learned a lot of new methods and techniques. 
> I've heard folks 
> > say mastering and mixing is a black art, now I
> know why. In these 
> > particular songs, they sounded wonderful on my
> headphones. There were 
> > some really cool and deep things going on in the
> 44hz range and below, 
> > and some others in the 62hz range. It all sounded
> great through my 
> > headphones, but those frequencies were reeking
> havoc on my consumer 
> > stereo systems - car stereo, portable stereo, etc.
> 
> Hi Kris,
> 
> I recommend that you do not mix using headphones. 
> That is an even more 
> phony environment than stereo speakers.  Speakers
> pushing air to your 
> ears is closer to how you hear a live event than
> headphones.
> 
> Mixing and mastering are two different processes.  I
> recommend that you 
> do not master songs one at a time in isolation.  One
> ought to master an 
> album's worth of songs together.  Not all at once
> but as a set.  How you 
> want to volume balance, equalize, and compress
> things is very dependent 
> upon the song order.  Concentrate only on mixing. 
> Save mastering for 
> last and use a pro if you can afford it.
> 
> If you are having bass region problems, there could
> be many reasons; the 
> system, the speakers, speaker placement, the room,
> and on and on ad 
> infinitum.  I'd look at what track in the song is
> supplying the bass 
> that breaks up in certain systems.  Work on that
> track's EQ and 
> compression then remix the song.  Can you mix using
> your portable 
> stereo?  If if sounds great there, that's how 90% of
> your audience will 
> hear the song.  Then compare the result through you
> regular studio 
> speakers and then headphones.  Listen to your mixes
> in as many 
> environments as possible.
> 
> Take what I and everyone else tell you with a few
> grains of salt and 
> experiment on your own.  Mixing *is* a black art.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Bill
> 
> 


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