Message 19/30
Date: 30-Aug-02 @ 11:49 AM -
RE: Mastering a mix CD...
Thanks for the tips.
I guess you just gotta use your ears \ or compare with other tracks of that genre.. hehehe.
I agree that different tracks and different genres should be mastered differently. Like trance and house is simply begging for heavy compression (I think) but other genres like ambient prefer a nice touchey-de-compressa.
Sometimes I push the track so far that it destorts a little little bit.. distortion is relative.. when distortion occurs, the signal can be distorted it's just that you don't hear it.. because it's distorted just a bit, but the distortion still is there and someone else might hear it. So, what I thought was that if it distorts a little on my speakers then it might sound like a sick dog if it's being played on a big system..
If you don't have peaks but everything is -1 or -3 then it tells you something.. it tells me that my track looks like a blue block in Sound Forge and that something is a bit overcompressed.
hi bedwyr!