Beginners Guide To Mastering DJ Mixes

[Jester]

anybody use iZotope Ozone for mixtape mastering? will be very great see some guides about using Ozone for mastering mixtapes.

i dont at the moment, but in audition there are already some plugins by izotope, and you can also use any vsts from your DAW.

e.g

[kooper1980]

nice little tutorial i found for audacity users.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=likk4fbEblg

I've been looking for a vid exactly like this. Cheers.

[Jester]

anybody use iZotope Ozone for mixtape mastering? will be very great see some guides about using Ozone for mastering mixtapes.

I've just upgraded from ozone 4 to ozone 5 advanced for the effects bank in audition. once i'm up to speed with that i may whip up a tutorial.

[xs2man]

WOW. Some of you guys really go to town with this stuff.

Personally I just record in audacity through my laptops line in at the moment, so maybe I should make a small investment to try to increase the quality of my hardware, might make a good start. I use Audacity already for recording the rec out on my mixer.

As for burning cd's, and spitting tracks, I generally leave the original file as it was recorded / output, then make up a simple cue sheet with tracks and start times. This then burns the wav / mp3 to the cd as a single file, but as far as the cd reads in any cd player, you can skip to whatever points you previously decided in the cue sheet.

That said, I haven't burned a cd in about 6 years, so the process might have become a bit simpler since then.

[C.Lukas1]

Great thread!

Just curious if anyone has a source, article, tutorial, etc regarding optimal recording settings for Traktor????

I'm not sure if I'm doing everything correctly. I still have mixes coming out on the quiet side. I want the end product to be an optimal sounding 320 kbps mix.

Here's a rundown of my settings.

Record out from external mixer (Xone:22) to Audio 10.
+3 Db on Traktor's gain

Now this is where I'm unsure. Do I know import the .wav to Audacity, bump the DBs, export as .wav and then convert to 320 mp3 using iTunes?

I feel like this is incorrect. Also, I have the free version of Audacity and can only export as a .wav.


I apologize if this has been covered already. Thanks for any replies!

[ksandvik]

Ozone 5 is nice. PSP Vintagewarmer is nice. Ouch, those were my two secret ingredients in my final mastering recipe.

[C.Lukas1]

Ignore my previous post. The Audacity tutorial covered it.

[hola amigos]

Is the program still available? Audacity? When I google it and click the link it doesn't load.

[Jester]

try this link http://download.cnet.com/Audacity/30...-10058117.html

[hola amigos]

It that for osx?

edit: that's for windows.