Yes, I am late. It is a reccurring theme. But goals I have set, so goals I must try to meet. This one took a while to get to a point where I felt that I had a solid enough idea to warrant stopping jumping through every last possible preset and sound. This one I like well enough, but I find that it is maybe a touch boring, or needs more of a developing melody, vocals perhaps (vocoded of course), something. But for the sake of progress and moving on I decided to call it done, “mix” it a wee bit, bounce it, normalize, and see what happens.
Take 1:
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Notes:
- Bounced/processed mp3 sounds considerably louder in iTunes this time around
- On master track in Ableton I used: compressor with Opto-Tight setting, default Limiter, PSP Vintage Warmer plugin with Mastering First Aid setting
- Added compressor with Gentle Squeeze setting on drum kick; added Dynamic Tube with Warm Tube setting on drum track
- Applied light EQ to each individual track as I understand EQing should be used at this point
- Rendered to disk from Ableton with Normalize set to off, exported as wav
- Opened wav file in Audacity, ran Normalize with default settings; then exported as MP3
- Highs are a bit high and have that near ear-piercing sizzling sound (not good in this case)
- Overall I am happy with the considerable gain in loudness of the MP3, but it is almost too loud
- I wonder if the electro bit at the end seems tacked on, or feels right; my decision I know, but I wonder
- Ends pretty abruptly
Take 2:
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Notes:
- Removed the EQ from the open hihats, which improved the sizzling highs from take 1