Thursday, November 3, 2016

Week 12 - Mastering

Things I did for mastering:

Put songs into 3 different tracks


EQ -
  • Roll off bottom end: we can't hear the 20-30 Hz frequencies (subsonic material) but muddies track. So remove them.
  • Adjust the EQ across 3 songs. Alphonse was too soft compared to the rest. All three songs had a lot of sound in the higher frequencies to I didn't want them to be too loud too.

Compression - for peaks:

  • Threshold reduces signal
  • Keep meter within -2 to -3 so as not to chop off too much sound
  • Ratio about 1.4
  • Tweak make up knob to make up for the sound that we just cut away with 2-3dB
  • User a Multimeter to keep track of the overall volume and make sure it never peaks above 0 !



Limiting - allow max gain:

  • Set ceiling to just below 0
  • Up gain until the most we can

Will rearrange the pieces again next week and post the playlist!

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