Reply to Mixing and (vs?) Mastering
Mixing and (vs?) Mastering Alright, so I've got a track pretty much all finished and its time to mix and master this track. That being said I have a few questions/thoughts about this whole process. To start with, I've taken a look at Terekiths articles (if you are watching Terekith, feel free to chime in here ) found here http://tarekith.com/assets/mixdowns.html and the subsequent mastering article. Now a few questions arise for me: 1. In regards to mixing, i have pretty much been doing this as i've gone along and it seems this is acceptable, as he states
A lot of people will not even approach the mixdown as a separate process, they shape it while they write, and when that phase is done, the song is done and they send it out for mastering. Certainly nothing wrong with this, many a good a tune has been written this way.
Track sounds great to me and is seems to be on average between -2db and at the very peak coming out of the main build up -0.5db, but there is a lot of talk about reducing the overall volume to like -6db. Now why would one need to do this if the track isn't clipping to begin with? I have volume automations in there so it seems to me like a huge pain in the ass to go over each track and reduce each to match the goal master db if it isn't actually necessary to do, no? 2. Which leads me to mastering, Terekith states a few goals of the mastering process: | |
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