virtual umbra
By neon liminal on January 28, 2024 9:12 pm
more big dumb techno on the m8. I'm letting the big dumb be big and dumb. Weird mildly annoying vocals by yours truly!
There was interest second-hand in how I was mastering my tracks and those of my brother, the Barrister Plong. I'm using iZotope Ozone as a mastering suite, letting it initially do its mastering-assistant thing and then doing a lot of listening and adjustments and checking to make sure Ozone didn't do anything insane (like ... increase the stereo field for all bands to 200%). It does a decent job with my big dumb techno. With ambient tracks, I have to do a lot more work - reference tracks would help a lot here I suspect. There's also a few other adjustments I'll make in Ableton just because they're simpler to do there than inside Ozone.
I'm mastering a mix outputted from the M8, not rendering stems cuz I have no time, but if I ever put these together as an album there will be a lot of stem work.
Bonus points if you get the vocal reference.
Audio works licensed by author under:
CC Attribution Noncommercial No Derivative Works (BY-NC-ND)
Recorded the dialogue/vocals late Sunday/technically Monday morning. The M8 lets me work sporadically over the day while I have like 5 minutes to kill while waiting for other things (usually dog related), so I get around 1-2 hours work in per day on average, sometimes less. Monday-Wednesday I get the sound design and melodic elements and all the 'parts' mostly done, Thursday-Friday I spend arranging, and generally Saturday is a flurry of finishing the arrangement and adding all the little bits like drum fills and FX and fun ear candy. Sunday afternoon render > quick and dirty master in Ozone with three hours to spare.