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 ?
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
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.
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
nice acid sound. Only crit I would say make that main synth stand out more. I think those backign synths / crash sounds and the choir vocals are unnecessary. Simplicity is key.
I dont know if this is the full song, but make a long build up and dont play the whole synth in the build up, just tease it. A good example of what im trying to explain or what I think your song could sound like, would be Nicky Romero - Generation 303. Take a listen
not sure why it’s not showing the wave form sorry - hope you can still access it from the site
