Despite the fact that it snowed this past weekend, this is a welcome summer jam.

Despite the fact that it snowed this past weekend, this is a welcome summer jam.

No snow here! Thanks for listening!

[quote=onezero]Despite the fact that it snowed this past weekend, this is a welcome summer jam. [/quote] No snow here! Thanks for listening! :)

Nice development and dynamics!

And yes I do. Enjoy it ::)

Nice development and dynamics! And yes I do. Enjoy it ::)

Thanks! Glad you liked it!

[quote=Jim Wood]Nice development and dynamics! And yes I do. Enjoy it ::)[/quote] Thanks! Glad you liked it! :D

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Top notch gif as always my friend! Thanks for listening!

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Nice Dancetrack!

Nice Dancetrack!

Thanks for listening, glad you like it!

[quote=m2K7]Nice Dancetrack![/quote] Thanks for listening, glad you like it! :)

As someone that is trying to learn mastering, how do you do this?  This track is massively MEGA!  Would you say that your original mix/source material is very loud, or is there something else that you are doing?  Right now my only "mastering" is using Reason's MClass Maximizer for essentially brick wall limiting.  Have yet to explore other mastering concepts and tools.

Inspiring sonic work and the track is rad to boot!

As someone that is trying to learn mastering, how do you do this? This track is massively MEGA! Would you say that your original mix/source material is very loud, or is there something else that you are doing? Right now my only "mastering" is using Reason's MClass Maximizer for essentially brick wall limiting. Have yet to explore other mastering concepts and tools. Inspiring sonic work and the track is rad to boot! :)

Hmm, I'd say that I put a fair bit of effort into making the mix hit hard, making sure that it's peaking somewhere between -3dB and -6dB, using compression on pretty much everything, and for some reason I've started putting parallel compression, as well as normal compression on the drum bus of every track I do now, just seems to work for me. After the mix is at a stage where I think it sounds good, I'll chuck on a little mastering chain that I made by modifying one of the Ableton preset racks, basically consisting of an EQ to boost lows, mids and highs, followed by a Mid-Side EQ to basically just take off all of the frequencies below about 150Hz on the sides and precision boost some stuff if needed, and then another EQ to do some precision cuts, always rolling off everything below 30Hz (I'd like 25Hz but Ableton's EQ only allows 30), and everything about 19kHz. Glue compressor with a low ratio, release timed to the track and an attack that makes the transient of the kick just punch through (if it's a clicky/punchy kick), which is triggered by essentially just the punch of the kick using the side-chain EQ and sweeping to find a nice frequency. A little bit of overdrive, stereo-enhancing, and then some mutliband compression to level out things a little, all feeding into a limiter which is hitting on average I'd say 3dB or so of gain reduction, maybe more.

Just remember that the amount of everything varies from track to track, but overall I'd say the big thing it just trying to get a great balance in the mix, pretty much regardless of loudness, and that will really help in the mastering stage. That's off the top of my head, and I am by no means a qualified mastering engineer, but I hope it helps a little!

[quote=orangedrink]As someone that is trying to learn mastering, how do you do this? This track is massively MEGA! Would you say that your original mix/source material is very loud, or is there something else that you are doing? Right now my only "mastering" is using Reason's MClass Maximizer for essentially brick wall limiting. Have yet to explore other mastering concepts and tools. Inspiring sonic work and the track is rad to boot! :)[/quote] Hmm, I'd say that I put a fair bit of effort into making the mix hit hard, making sure that it's peaking somewhere between -3dB and -6dB, using compression on pretty much everything, and for some reason I've started putting parallel compression, as well as normal compression on the drum bus of every track I do now, just seems to work for me. After the mix is at a stage where I think it sounds good, I'll chuck on a little mastering chain that I made by modifying one of the Ableton preset racks, basically consisting of an EQ to boost lows, mids and highs, followed by a Mid-Side EQ to basically just take off all of the frequencies below about 150Hz on the sides and precision boost some stuff if needed, and then another EQ to do some precision cuts, always rolling off everything below 30Hz (I'd like 25Hz but Ableton's EQ only allows 30), and everything about 19kHz. Glue compressor with a low ratio, release timed to the track and an attack that makes the transient of the kick just punch through (if it's a clicky/punchy kick), which is triggered by essentially just the punch of the kick using the side-chain EQ and sweeping to find a nice frequency. A little bit of overdrive, stereo-enhancing, and then some mutliband compression to level out things a little, all feeding into a limiter which is hitting on average I'd say 3dB or so of gain reduction, maybe more. Just remember that the amount of everything varies from track to track, but overall I'd say the big thing it just trying to get a great balance in the mix, pretty much regardless of loudness, and that will really help in the mastering stage. That's off the top of my head, and I am by no means a qualified mastering engineer, but I hope it helps a little! :D

this is incredible, thanks so much.  i think my goal for my track two weeks from now will be to incorporate sidechain compression.  I really love that Glue Compressor but alas, I only have Ableton 8.  I'm saving this note and will refer to it next week!

this is incredible, thanks so much. i think my goal for my track two weeks from now will be to incorporate sidechain compression. I really love that Glue Compressor but alas, I only have Ableton 8. I'm saving this note and will refer to it next week!

Fun times. :-)  Big sound on this!

Fun times. :-) Big sound on this!