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Wow wow wow wow man I love this new method! Gosh, I swear this project I'm working sounds so much more pro now! Ahh Craig It's a labour of love. When we gain an understanding of our tools, we can always pick the right tool for the project. There is nothing wrong with having a number of different co...

Wow wow wow wow man I love this new method! Gosh, I swear this project I'm working sounds so much more pro now!

Thanks a mil Earle you're the best!!

Yeah I set it to 2 because when I set it higher it was sounding weird but 2 did the trick a whole lot better. What's the best way you recommend setting the Attack and Release settings? Or do you just kind mess around with them until you get the sound you're looking for? There seems to be an Auto-Rel...

Thanks so much, Earle! You know, I've found that using a compressor right before limiting makes my tracks sound better for some reason. I'm using this Waves SSL Compressor that I've had for awhile and it's really helping one of my tracks to have more punch. Nice!

Ah cool! Just 2 more questions and I promise I'll leave ya alone, lol. So what's the difference between a multiband compresser and a wide band compresser? I've never heard of a wideband compressor before and what benefits does one get from using it when mastering? Also, are there are good software w...

Sure did. It really does sound great.

So I have a question...when's the best time to use multiband compression (like LinMB or such)? Because that's what I've been using and I think that was my problem as to why I couldn't get any prescence.

I sent you a track a little while back (Leave Me Alone) and you mastered a 45 second clip. I listened to it and was like, WOW, what did he do?

I can't make that track sound that good for the life of me, lol. How did you do that? I wonder if you ever used har-bal. lol.

I don't know if I'm mastering wrong or not, but everytime I finish mixing a track and normalize it and take it to har-bal, I'll usually low shelve it at 45 hz, and hit Intuit Q. But for some reason when I get to compression and limiting I can make it sound good but the vocals are always different in...

Well, I'm guessing that if I test my material out with IPod headphones (sense they tend to be really sensitive to distortion and all) I might be better off.

By the way.....does Earle himself use Har-bal himself? I'm sure he does, but I was just wondering...

One random question, though... Sometimes when I'm limiting and fattening a track after I've balanced it in Har-bal and what not (I personally like to use Waves L2 as my main limiter rather than Har-bal's), I can get it up to a level that I like and I don't really ever hear any distortion through my ...

Yeah, remember back when I posted that I was having all these problems with Har-bal and such because I couldn't really use it very well to master one of my tracks? It turns out the track wasn't balanced. Man, I'll tell ya as soon as I put that Intuit Q on there and took it to my limiter and eq devic...

Craig, You'll probably find that those CD's you are referring to have used compression as well as limiting to get that loudness. compression over the full dynamic range with a ratio of 1.2 or 1.3 would probably raise the average levels by as much as 3 dB or so. Be that as it may, I really don't und...

Hi everybody! I'm having some trouble with mastering one of my rap songs. You see, when I eq it and it sounds nice and everything (at least to me). I'll match the volume with a song off of a new CD. I'll play them both back to back and the CD is still MUCH louder than my stuff. Even after I used Int...