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4d •
Updated audio after Mentor check in with Luke
I wanted to express how much I appreciate the expertise and resources Mastering.com offers. This week I had a very productive check in with Luke. I liked how he took the time to split my project into stems and dig in to the elements that were weak spots in my project. He offered some great suggestions that could improve not just my mix but the composition as well. I've spent this week trying to implement those suggestions and have attached the results. I welcome any productive feedback. Cheers!
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Wow, that is some high energy you have there. My only observation is that I feel the acoustic guitar is a bit too bright. Or 2 observations. Around 1:35 a synth comes that sounds a lot like ELP but that same guitar doesn't let it through. Overall it reminds me of Yes / ELP but feels brighter than need be and some fighting among instruments.
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@Robert DelGatto I think what I may be hearing as brightness is lack of body... I know your song is era driven so to speak but listen to this... It's not the era sound but there is some body in there. AND that is a bright maple guitar. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qvjuB3jGpEc What happens if you bypass the dynamic EQ? 4 min mark of this and beyond... it has the body in the sound and the chime https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlOs7gW2TNQ
14d •
what why how but when?
I'm in a loop of productions. how do you know wnen it is good enough to call it done and bounce it to mixing? how much of the depth gets completed in production. how long should I spend mixing a production? how good does it have to sound before it's sent it to mixing??? I'm in 101 maybe all these questions will be answerd when I finish 101 and 102 idk. Anyway I hanen't played this song for anyone yet. any feed back from you guys would be great. I just started using some of the things I've learned here. sorry if I went a little nuts with delays atomation reverbs and compression still havn't masterd anything.
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Just lost my entire post... Short story... I agree with @Petter Jensen I re-typed the long version and realized, as usually do, I come from an arrangement point of view. IOW I could hear your tracks used for .... Movie chase scene as is. As a song in genre may need some changes to timings and structure. Radio / TV commercial --- pick various pieces and assemble but this would hinge on how you finish your genre specific song. Cool song, the sounds are good, the rhythm is stepping on the lead vocals ( mainly the guitar). If you gave those tracks to 50 people to mix you would probably get at least 20 mixes that are nothing like what you have AND also sound like 20 different song versions. That's a good thing. So it's mixed, re-produced, re-arranged. The sounds are good and there are so many things to work within your tracks. Again a good thing If you are tied to that mix structure though, you might get 50 similar mixes back. So is it ready depends on your flexibility. I think it's ready for someone that has some interesting arrangement ideas.
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Is this real, or a mistake, or something else ?
Hi, I just had an email, supposedly from Mastering.com saying... Hey there, Rob here from Mastering.com. I'd love to get your thoughts on your recent purchase: NYC Drums Would you be open to leaving a quick review? If so, here's your unique link: https://courses.mastering.com/review?product=31 Thanks for your time, it's much appreciated. Cheers, Rob CEO - Mastering.com You were sent this email because you recently purchased a product from Mastering.com. I've NOT purchased NYC Drums or anything else, so why would I get this? Any thoughts?
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@G A They don't miss much. Everyone that can be hacked and compromised is feeling it these days. If you run a business online reviews are a form of advertising. Advertising only works if it's persistent. Sometime you screw things up trying to get it rolling. Asking for an apology until after the facts of the issue are discovered is not to be expected. Having volunteered helping someone establish a very valuable web presence, I can tell you bumps in the road occur. I do hope though that if they are starting an email review campaign that they will incorporate an op out ability. I like the Wednesday email. I like the FTM notices, etc. I would at least like a request for review to have the word Review in the subject so I can filter it to trash. At this point in my life if someone wants me to review something they can pay me. I will disclose my associations and potential biases. I don't see that happening. So here we are again. Don't shoot the messenger. I mean until you catch him in bed with your wife. Then you have a whole new dilemma.
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@G A I know what you mean. I had a terrible experience with an auto repair place recently. Afterwards... 1. Welcome to the family 2. Text wanting a review BUT the message said IF you had a good experience please leave a Google review 3. Another welcome email. 4. Another request for a review. This time though IF you had a 'great' experience please leave a review. So my experience review criteria went from 'good' to 'great'. I misunderstood your "sorry, a few..." comment. Generally the 'coming to you' aspect is ok if you don't click on anything. Sometimes it's a compromise of the email address it came from and yes it could be a mailing list compromise. Then addresses can be stolen to be the sender of other harmful emails.
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Suggestion for M_dot_C
I've noticed several times when "time" becomes an issue. Things get changed and people get confused as to what time a thing is going to happen in their location. Why don't you switch to 24 hour UTC time? That way everyone knows what time the event will be occurring even if they are traveling. People in fixed locations can simply learn their offset. Or they can simply type in... "What time is it in [ my city ] at 17:30 UTC 11/15/2026? Most everyone's phone, tablet, computers are tied to UTC and they will get an exact time. Aviation is all tied to UTC/Zulu. 2026-09-28T16:52:00Z Year-Month-Day(T=Time)Hour(in 24 format):Minute:Seconds(Zulu = tied directly to UTC:00:00) But again any search engine can convert normal spoken words. So "The show starts at 13:00 ( 1PM ) UCT on October 2nd" works just fine. If you live on east coast USA that's 9AM EDT 10/02. If you live in Madrid it's 15:00 ( 3PM )11/02 When a contest ends "at midnight" it's much more easily understood and can not be improperly calculated if the contest ends at 23:59 UCT 10/01/2026. It would simply eliminate all confusion even as time zones change through travel or seasonal standard vs daylight savings. Also it seems to me if you had an instructor in different time zone or a mentor call and one party or both need to quickly coordinate a time. Anyway just a thought. If it saved everyone a couple minutes on all the varied communications, videos, etc., it would seem worth it in the long run.
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Reference Track too Quiet for Limiter Stress Test
I just downloaded I Won't Back Down by Tom Petty as a reference track, and the wave file looks like it never went through a limiter. Nothing even close to peaking out. I even raised it a couple db, and still has plenty of headroom. I'm looking to do a Limiter Stress Test, and am wondering if I should put some limiting on this track. If you knew how long it took me to finally find an MP3 of it (amazon would only allow streaming) you'd know my frustration at seeing this track being so quiet. Any suggestions would be appreciated!
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@Harry Kopy To me that sounds like 60s transitioning into early 70s. Think Woodstock. Pre Strawberry Alarmclock -- Incense and Peprpermints but leaning that way. Kinda like ? and the Mysterians -- 96 Tears That's just my take. That's what I hear.
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@Harry Kopy Wow, maybe there is still hope for me. I never noticed the title, LOL. So you are getting all subliminal on us?! Apparently it works, at least provided the listener is over 70. Now I want to listen again and see if I hear the other song. I was worried you would be pissed because I said it sounded like 60s, LOL. I have the uncanny ability to get things right and wrong at the same time without even trying. One bar in two places of the song I chose that I haven't heard in decades. That amazes me. Not that I mentioned that song but that you put those bars in and somehow I thought to somehow think of that song. That is bizarre. I can assure I used no AI, no tools, nothing. Just my old ears and memory.
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