Greetings. I was reading an earlier thread regarding reference tracks, and it was mentioned to 'listen to some new and fresh, well mastered music'. I looked at my list of the rock music reference tracks I like and use, and realized only one was released in the last few years -most of them are from the 70s to early 90s! With the push for louder tracks, I really have not heard many well mastered (imho) CDs of late, but I'm sure there are some...any recommendations?
Thanks,
WCH
Recent good reference tracks
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mflorio
mastering jobs
Personally, I've noticed most of my favorite sounding cd's were all pressed in the early 90's !
Check out this link for an interesting article:
http://www.prorec.com/prorec/articles.n ... 2E005DAF1C
Check out this link for an interesting article:
http://www.prorec.com/prorec/articles.n ... 2E005DAF1C
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magellan2003
recent songs
great article - thanks! so...you have not heard anything you like in recent years?
WCH
WCH
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Har/Bal
Reference Tracks
You are correct, most of the music recorded currently appears to be non-dynamic. The peaks are squashed terribly as a comprimise to make the music louder which is completely unecessary.
When you view the music from the late 80's and early 90's you will notice consistency when viewing the spectrum. It is a perfect guide to show you how a great sounding song should appear.
There are a number of mastering engineers out there that have been trying to educate the public by telling them that louder is not better.
By studying these spectrums you can easily look at your own songs and make corrections easily.
I constantly study the spectrums of commercial music and am amazed at what they let out of the studios.
When you harmonically balance your music it sounds great and people know it. The average consumer out there may not be able to tell you in technical terms why they like it, only that it feels good listening to it.
It's all in the EQ'ing!!
Cheers
Earle
When you view the music from the late 80's and early 90's you will notice consistency when viewing the spectrum. It is a perfect guide to show you how a great sounding song should appear.
There are a number of mastering engineers out there that have been trying to educate the public by telling them that louder is not better.
By studying these spectrums you can easily look at your own songs and make corrections easily.
I constantly study the spectrums of commercial music and am amazed at what they let out of the studios.
When you harmonically balance your music it sounds great and people know it. The average consumer out there may not be able to tell you in technical terms why they like it, only that it feels good listening to it.
It's all in the EQ'ing!!
Cheers
Earle
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michaelrhoden
Reference File
I have found that picking individual performances, such as acoustic piano, guitar and vocals etc. from different CD's to suit your own instrumentaton, is quite effective. All you have to do is mix them relative to each other in volume. It sound like cachophony, but hear through it and you can tailor the reference mix to your needs.
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Dr. Robert