Do You Have To Mix & Master Your Own Tracks?

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[bradallenmusic]

Great advice. Thank you for sharing your experience!

[robdiscreet-discreetproduc]

This has really helped too... Thankyou jesse

[fliktrax]

Great advice here. If you think you can't mix your own tracks then you are in the wrong industry unless you are just a song writer but production music composers MUST be able to do that. Which most of you know already, but Mastering is a different animal. If you think you can professionally master your own tracks GREAT! You must have a rack full of manly compressors and twenty years experience in the industry....UH No you can't do it to those kind of professional standards. BUT you can come close to making them sound in line with the REFERENCE tracks as suggested by Jesse. Here is some quick tips if you are using Logic. First mix your track the way you like it and bounce it with "overload protection only". Then drag it into a new session and use the EQ and roll off the very highest of frequencies and lowest of frequencies a bit. The human ear can't even here those extreme frequencies but they can make speakers crap out. Then Use the multipressor and tweek it so that you like the way it sounds with your reference track and you can add some volume there too. Then bring up your adaptive limiter and add 6db and have the limit at -0.1 so that you always have that .1 cushion. Then bounce the track with Normalize OFF! If your track still sounds too quiet, then wow you really need to rethink your gain structure some.

[_Only_Zuul]

get the sound right from the source and then you'll only need some little tweaks and adjustments with mixing and mastering.

[anthonydiaz]

Jesse, also put in mind that the task of finding the best track to use it as a reference is really daunting because all tracks are great and you need to look them up based on their genres to suit the genre that you're working on.

What do you think of online mixing templates or moderate-priced online mixing services?

[jessetimmmiller]

Jesse, what about metadata? I've heard it's crucial to embed metadata in submissions. Perhaps you make a video on this topic?

[ElectricSymphany]

Is there any way we can hear some of your work?

[NeonInsect]

How loud are your tracks these days on an LUFS scale?