Done (I hope)
Dec. 15th, 2013 10:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catsittingstill So yesterday about 4 pm I finished the changes I thought were necessary to my mixes. And I turned them all into mp3s and loaded them all onto my iPod in album order, and about 5 pm I went for a walk with them with a clipboard and the song list and space to take notes.
And I still wasn't happy. Mostly it was detail stuff--a word here or there too loud or soft, little stuff. But getting the octave mando bass lines to play nice with the vocals and the mandolin is driving me nuts. On the monitor speakers everything sounds fine; in the little iPod earbuds it's much more noticeable when a note is too loud or soft.
In desperation I printed out the complete words of four songs and went for another walk, circling the words where the octave mando was too loud and writing an s on them when they were too soft. Then I went back and adjusted the loudness for each of those notes. I sure hope that did the job.
I have made all the other little changes (20 songs in one day is a lot even though I didn't have to do much to most of them.) And made wav files for them. And tomorrow morning I will leave the house early so I can take another walk with them and a clipboard before I have to go volunteer at the Rural Health Clinic. And hopefully everything will be okay. Because I can make a few changes monday but then I really need to boost the volume another 2.6 dB (and see if compression is a good idea; I am by no means sure it will work, though it is traditional) and Tuesday really needs to be upload day, because I need Wednesday for Christmas shopping and other stuff.
And I still wasn't happy. Mostly it was detail stuff--a word here or there too loud or soft, little stuff. But getting the octave mando bass lines to play nice with the vocals and the mandolin is driving me nuts. On the monitor speakers everything sounds fine; in the little iPod earbuds it's much more noticeable when a note is too loud or soft.
In desperation I printed out the complete words of four songs and went for another walk, circling the words where the octave mando was too loud and writing an s on them when they were too soft. Then I went back and adjusted the loudness for each of those notes. I sure hope that did the job.
I have made all the other little changes (20 songs in one day is a lot even though I didn't have to do much to most of them.) And made wav files for them. And tomorrow morning I will leave the house early so I can take another walk with them and a clipboard before I have to go volunteer at the Rural Health Clinic. And hopefully everything will be okay. Because I can make a few changes monday but then I really need to boost the volume another 2.6 dB (and see if compression is a good idea; I am by no means sure it will work, though it is traditional) and Tuesday really needs to be upload day, because I need Wednesday for Christmas shopping and other stuff.
