Originally Posted by
deevey
The mastering is not the problem.. the total destruction of the tracks audio becuase of distortion thoughout the entire EP is though.
The first thing I'd do is sort out the audio issues, not saying make it perfect, but it shouldn't sound like complete crap on even a macbook's speakers.
Take any limiters / compressors off the Master, Pull back all your levels into the green and re-export, if you need to level stuff up a bit run it though Audacity with a light compressor and normalize. It shouldn't crunch like it does now. I get the feeling you either ran well into the red or hard limited everything afterwards and its really screwed up the sound.
Once you have the sound sorted out fire out copies to radio stations, other djs', make it available to 100 people on sound cloud that have similar grooves and residencies (until thats done you wont get airtime).
They are not the worst tracks I've ever heard, not really my thing but here's my 2 cents.
Track 1 and 4 have a bit too much of the oldskool piano-house about them (I did like piano house back in 1998 dont get me wrong).
Track 2 - Just not feeling it whatsoever, felt like a fill-in to me.
Track 3 - Similar vein and as good as a certain deceased rat has put out from time to time (thats a compliment i think).
IMHO the first and last tracks should be combined together to bring things a lil more up-to-date just didnt feel that there was enough happening in either of them on their own - just a thought.
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