Whuf (again)
May. 20th, 2012 05:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catsittingstillI have finished the mixing. (Except for a couple of tiny things--I have a feeling, however, that I will be saying that until everything goes off to the duplicators.) But today I rendered All My Mixes to wav files--they all peak at -3 dB to leave room for mastering, they all have the same compression and eq and reverb settings, and they all sound pretty much related.
Next I will listen to them all in order to make sure everything is an appropriate loudness and I haven't done something that will cross the listener's eyes in any of the transitions between songs, and check the average loudness to make sure it is okay headroom wise.
And I probably have to fine-tune my eq settings for the mando and octave mando, to make sure they aren't stepping on the vocals and vice-versa. But since I have everything in effects chains, I can just change the chain, and then change it on each song with one click. Of course, that can change the levels, so I'll have to check that.
Then I'll master, meaning mostly I may make a few moderate eq tweaks (though really, I don't see why I shouldn't do that in the mix anyway) and then apply a compressor or a limiter to increase the average loudness. (By making the loudest bits softer, a compressor or a limiter makes it possible to increase the volume of the soft bits without making the speakers distort.)
But I have decided to call this finishing an important stage, and I'm having steak tonight to celebrate.
Next I will listen to them all in order to make sure everything is an appropriate loudness and I haven't done something that will cross the listener's eyes in any of the transitions between songs, and check the average loudness to make sure it is okay headroom wise.
And I probably have to fine-tune my eq settings for the mando and octave mando, to make sure they aren't stepping on the vocals and vice-versa. But since I have everything in effects chains, I can just change the chain, and then change it on each song with one click. Of course, that can change the levels, so I'll have to check that.
Then I'll master, meaning mostly I may make a few moderate eq tweaks (though really, I don't see why I shouldn't do that in the mix anyway) and then apply a compressor or a limiter to increase the average loudness. (By making the loudest bits softer, a compressor or a limiter makes it possible to increase the volume of the soft bits without making the speakers distort.)
But I have decided to call this finishing an important stage, and I'm having steak tonight to celebrate.
