Friday, 6 June 2014

Mastering.

EP - 01. Beautiful Thinking (Feat. Danilo Ferreira & Arowstarh)
I was given a harder task when mastering this because this track was already mastered and limited, so I had to re-master it again.
There was a lot of bass on the kicks so I had to take some off it off by using the EQ. I took of about 52Hz, I added a high pass filter.
I then used a multiprocessor to get rid of the spikes that was on the actual audio file, the area I compressed a little was around 3.5k this helped reduced some of the area that was at 3.5k and it also reduced the spikes. However I was not able to reduce one part of the area in the track which is where Kierans was about to start rapping when he says 'thinking' and it has that 'Ck' bit but I think that is because of the reverb tail so it's supposed to be there.
Afterwards I bounced the audio file and did a before & After... As you can see... (The picture blow)
The first picture is the before and the second picture is the after.
For the final stage I then added a limiter, boosted the limiter to +9.5dB and the release time to 15.0ms.

EP - 02. Lost Love (Feat Caitlyn Scarlett)
Again this track was already limited and mastered so it was also difficult to re-master it...
However
In this track, the mix was really good however I had to make a slight adjustments. The Claps were really really really sharp and there was many spikes because of it, also the kick had many spikes too. I had to EQ and add a high past filter around 40 Hz, afterwards I Eq'ed out around 2.1k Hz which is where most of the Claps were coming from, I had to turn it down by -3.5dB. After that I added the Multi pressor, so I can just compress the high frequencies just a small amount but I mostly compressed around 2.1k Hz which helped the claps to make it less sharp. 
Here's the Before and after. 
As you can see in second photo (After photo) most of the spikes are still there, I managed to get rid of some spikes but because the claps were bright the mix it was quite difficult to make them less bright without affecting the whole track.
For the final stage I used a limiter. First of all I raised the gain to the highest point which was (+20dB) and decreased the output level to -10db. I did this because this helped me to deal with the release time, which I slowly raised... I raised it to 16ms which was a good set point. It was neither too relaxed or too tight which was good. Afterwards I put the output level back to 0dB and started over with the gain, I raised the gain to +9.5dB.

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