mastering
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- KVRist
- 314 posts since 11 Dec, 2004 from Northern Calif.
I've been mastering one song at a time in Final Mix, but mastering should e.q. & balance all the songs in a CD. I don't understand how to use final Mix for more than one song at a time? Thanks
Paresh
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- KVRAF
- 3846 posts since 15 Mar, 2002 from Underworld
Maybe because it is NOT the right software for mastering [Traction, that is], man... you cannot use one plugin for mastering, although you can approximate eq and loudness settings, but definitely not like you can do it in Samplitude, Wavelab or Sound Forge for instance. Actually, everything can be done, and the results are what matters in the end, but I'm just telling you what's the right way of doing mastering, of course it includes a few superior EQ plugins at least, mastering compressor or two, decent limiter and proper dithering, plus excellent speakers [possibly two different pairs], and good room acoustics... for proffesional mastering, I mean. It makes a big difference, though. You'll need some great ears, great knowledge, great patience and some luck to get it anywhere near to something a real mastering engineer with real mastering tools and skills can do.
Cheers.
Cheers.
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- KVRAF
- 6490 posts since 14 Jun, 2004 from Rochester, NY
paresh if it would help, heres a neat method to figure this out:
line all the songs up as if it were a cd, in order, on separate tracks. work on each song's eq, etc in the tracks, and in the master bus figure out what you want to go over every song.
when youre done, just line them back up and do export each track.
RonC
line all the songs up as if it were a cd, in order, on separate tracks. work on each song's eq, etc in the tracks, and in the master bus figure out what you want to go over every song.
when youre done, just line them back up and do export each track.
RonC
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- KVRAF
- 6740 posts since 25 Mar, 2002 from sheffield, england
Yeah Ron's got the right idea.
Export 24 or 32 bit mixes, and then re-import them all into a new "mastering" edit. Give each one a seperate track like Ron, or keep them all on the same track and drop your effects directly onto the clips.. (I sometimes create a rack for each song: rack filters can be dropped onto clips too!)
Usually I will set up different EQ & compression etc for each song, but run them all through a common limiter & dither in the master section.
Export 24 or 32 bit mixes, and then re-import them all into a new "mastering" edit. Give each one a seperate track like Ron, or keep them all on the same track and drop your effects directly onto the clips.. (I sometimes create a rack for each song: rack filters can be dropped onto clips too!)
Usually I will set up different EQ & compression etc for each song, but run them all through a common limiter & dither in the master section.
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- KVRAF
- 3846 posts since 15 Mar, 2002 from Underworld
Did I forgot to mention I responded like a total arse-hole 
[now when I read it once more]. I appologise, man. Of course there is a way to do it, and these guys responded like I should have responded in the first place. Render the tracks in 32 bit, load'em up at different tracks, setup a compressor[or just leveller]/EQ [if needed, of course] chain for each track so they sound as close as possible, put the limiter [careful with this one...]/dither last in the chain [@16bit with noise shaping] plugin on the master buss and off you go! Very clean mastering indeed. But if you really want mastering... refer to my 1st post.
Cheers!
[now when I read it once more]. I appologise, man. Of course there is a way to do it, and these guys responded like I should have responded in the first place. Render the tracks in 32 bit, load'em up at different tracks, setup a compressor[or just leveller]/EQ [if needed, of course] chain for each track so they sound as close as possible, put the limiter [careful with this one...]/dither last in the chain [@16bit with noise shaping] plugin on the master buss and off you go! Very clean mastering indeed. But if you really want mastering... refer to my 1st post.Cheers!
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. - Jiddu Krishnamurti
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- KVRian
- 1349 posts since 12 Jan, 2003 from Paris
Paresh wrote:I've been mastering one song at a time in Final Mix, but mastering should e.q. & balance all the songs in a CD. I don't understand how to use final Mix for more than one song at a time? Thanks
The goal can be to get a global same sound through all the songs but Mastering should not EQ & balance all the songs with the same setting.
Mastering one song at a time is the way to go.
Compare the resulting sound of each song and adjust the setting.
Xavier
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- KVRAF
- 6490 posts since 14 Jun, 2004 from Rochester, NY
