My first unmastered mix - would welcome any feedback

[Jane]

Hi - I've been starting to make productions (got Maschine and some soft synths, and working them all in my Cubase artists 6).



It's for one of the beatport remix competitions and thought that'd be a fun way to start getting to grips with the software/synths and all the various stages for putting together a production.

I'm pretty happy with it so far, but haven't mastered it yet. Was hoping to get it professionally mastered but as the deadline is monday I've run out of time (and tbh fairly broke so haven't even got the spare cash for a single track), so am thinking of trying to do a very minimal mastering to it myself (know that's far from the best way to do this). Just hoped, could anyone give me any feedback as to what they think, and whether I should be cutting any frequecies etc. I don't want to go for a hugely compressed mix, but do you think I should add a little or a bit of limiter too ?

Any and all feedback VERY appreciated.

Jane

[Jane]

not sure why it's not showing the wave form sorry - hope you can still access it from the site

[evolakim]

Sounds very 90's. I like it! Good work!

[Jane]

Sounds very 90's. I like it! Good work!

Thanks so much Evolakim - glad you liked it

I had a go at mastering with a Wavelab free trial and managed to get something that was pretty good in terms of extra oomph, but decided that I may just be breaking things I'm not hearing (know mastering takes years of work and 'mastery') and a few of the cymbal crashes were just a bit too over compressed, so I decided to upload for the competition a slightly tweaked unmastered version.

Here's my finished entry - BEATPORT REMIX COMPETITION

[Jack Hoesterey]

Very impressive

[evolakim]

Sounds good. I'm quite good at writing, arranging, mixing. But when it comes to mastering I can't ever seem to get it perfect.
I usually just use Ozone but would love to be able to send it off to a pro.

It's cool though. Keep up the good work.

[Jane]

Very impressive

Sounds good. I'm quite good at writing, arranging, mixing. But when it comes to mastering I can't ever seem to get it perfect.
I usually just use Ozone but would love to be able to send it off to a pro.

It's cool though. Keep up the good work.

Cheers so very much for the comments - very appreciated

Think mastering def is a very complicated thing to get right and very easy to get wrong so I'll start to try things out gradually and experiment, but likely I'll keep on being more cautious in compression and eq til then (unless I've got a bit of spare cash to get it done by a pro). Tbh I think even if I do get a pro mastering, I'll still have a go as it's always good to be developing skills and learning, but I'll just keep those masters for myself

[Tarekith]

Simple mastering:

http://tarekith.com/assets/pdfs/Mastering.pdf

Doesn't have to be complicated at all

[Jane]

Simple mastering:

http://tarekith.com/assets/pdfs/Mastering.pdf

Doesn't have to be complicated at all

Cheers so much Tarekith - that's a fantastic lot of good advice, will try and incorporate those ideas in my next mixes and productions

[Tarekith]

Lots more here:

http://tarekith.com/helpandsounds/