Re: Powered Subs...on to mastering

["Krispen Hartung" <khartung@cableone.net>]

ditto that question!  I wonder if any well known engineers have published 
any books that have some tips and tricks, best practices, methods, etc.  
All 
I have is the Yamaha Sound Reinforcement Manual, which has some goodies in 
it.

Kris


----- Original Message ----- 
> Hey gang,
> any good audio books on this subject you can recomend?
> id like to get a deeper understanding on this!
> cheers
> Luis
>
>
> --- Bill Fox <billyfox@soundscapes.us> wrote:
>
>> Krispen Hartung wrote:
>> > I've been doing a lot of mastering and mixing
>> lately on a project and
>> > have learned a lot of new methods and techniques.
>> I've heard folks
>> > say mastering and mixing is a black art, now I
>> know why. In these
>> > particular songs, they sounded wonderful on my
>> headphones. There were
>> > some really cool and deep things going on in the
>> 44hz range and below,
>> > and some others in the 62hz range. It all sounded
>> great through my
>> > headphones, but those frequencies were reeking
>> havoc on my consumer
>> > stereo systems - car stereo, portable stereo, etc.
>>
>> Hi Kris,
>>
>> I recommend that you do not mix using headphones.
>> That is an even more
>> phony environment than stereo speakers.  Speakers
>> pushing air to your
>> ears is closer to how you hear a live event than
>> headphones.
>>
>> Mixing and mastering are two different processes.  I
>> recommend that you
>> do not master songs one at a time in isolation.  One
>> ought to master an
>> album's worth of songs together.  Not all at once
>> but as a set.  How you
>> want to volume balance, equalize, and compress
>> things is very dependent
>> upon the song order.  Concentrate only on mixing.
>> Save mastering for
>> last and use a pro if you can afford it.
>>
>> If you are having bass region problems, there could
>> be many reasons; the
>> system, the speakers, speaker placement, the room,
>> and on and on ad
>> infinitum.  I'd look at what track in the song is
>> supplying the bass
>> that breaks up in certain systems.  Work on that
>> track's EQ and
>> compression then remix the song.  Can you mix using
>> your portable
>> stereo?  If if sounds great there, that's how 90% of
>> your audience will
>> hear the song.  Then compare the result through you
>> regular studio
>> speakers and then headphones.  Listen to your mixes
>> in as many
>> environments as possible.
>>
>> Take what I and everyone else tell you with a few
>> grains of salt and
>> experiment on your own.  Mixing *is* a black art.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>
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