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Sexy Sexy Girl – mix feedback
I’ve been doing some stuff for reality TV lately and i’ve been feeling my mixes are not nearly as spaced out as should be.
I would love any feedback and advice about how to get the track sounding crispy and ready to master.
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Ya had me at the title, ha!
Mix sounds phat and crazy wide. You gotta teach me how you got that width.
I hear all the instruments clearly.
Maybe the kick could knock a bit more or clip a bit just too get a little nastier in the club.
Maybe mastering could bring out some of the high end (you might reference Skrillex. I’ve realized in extensive comparison that his mixes are crazeee crispy and festival/club ready; the kick is often super high end knocky, and he get’s his master to pump into the -7lufs range by going slightly in the red on Ableton (without it distorting).
This is all mythical, so maybe Dana could give more to chew on.
Phat wobbles!
Jeremy
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My guy! anytime. It was a lot of mixing, Mid side eq and referencing some tracks I want it to sound like…
I’ve been working my ass off on it lately since I feel like my mixes were never really wide enough
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Royyyyyy! Love this! And love @shimmerisland‘s insights too. I’m listening in late-night laptop mode so I’ll save any technical thoughts till I’ve had a chance to crank this in the studio. But love it musically, and totally dug the half-time vibe switcharoo around 40 seconds. Head bobbin’! So many cool gear shifts and new bits of ear candy throughout the track, too, keeping me wowed and engaged as a listener! Which … of course, is no surprise coming from you, you sync GEM! 💎🤘
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Roy, Love this piece of compelling music. It’s short and to the point . I like the brevity, conciseness, the decided sense of change within a short song, the edges of bandwidths explored, and the whack-a-doodle ear candy. I was always interested in what’s next. I gave a shot at mastering it and tweaked the lower two and uppermost two octaves for some more drama and sizzle, squeezed another 4LUFS out of it, added a/ little digi saturation, and then spread out the low/mid, mid, and high bands with the “Imager” in my mastering suite. It’s a little hyped up. I’m not sure if I made it better. Yea man, it’s SOLID! PT
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Thank you man! I actually have a 2_1 version where I did what you are describing (sorta. I’m not sure what the octave thing means lol). I added some soft clipping, gave some more mid/side love and not sure what you did with the imager, maybe you can elaborate or send a relevant tutorial that explains that?
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I think i can speak for those that engaged in this conversation and say we’d love to listen to the new 2.1 version to see where you landed. The tech talk translation I spoke of can be understood like this. is the frequency range from 20 – 40 Hz and 40 – 80 Hz is the lower two octaves of the frequency spectrum (20 – 20KHz) we hopefully hear. The upper two octaves are the 5KHz to 10KHz range and the 10KHz to 20KHz frequency range. Abuse of hearing and old age can shorten the high end range of hearing. I simply boosted the low lows and the high highs in my experiment. The term octave you most likely know from music. Do re mi fa so la te do ends an octave higher than from where it started. In frequency terms its a doubling of frequency number. ie, 20 Hz to 40 Hz, 40 Hz to 80 Hz. 5KHz to 10KHz, and 10KHz to 20KHz The term K would be a thousand worth of. Hz is the abbreviation for Hz, the scientific term for cycles per second coined in 19th century Germany by <g-bubble jscontroller=”QVaUhf” data-ci=”” data-du=”200″ data-tp=”5″ jsaction=”R9S7w:VqIRre;” jsshadow=”” __is_owner=”true”>Heinrich Rudolf Hertz who later started the rental car business. PT
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I read it on the internet.
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What a great overview video, thanks for this, Paul! I own Ozone but haven’t used it in quite a while. This nice lil vid has me excited to give the imager a whirl again. Very cool tool.
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Love the sounds & vibe. Def captured my ear wanting to hear more. Expressive is a word that comes to mind.
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Just listened on my studio speakers – “phat wobbles” for sure! Dude, it sounds killer! Fantastic work.
If it were for a record I’d prob say you could master it harder – hit it with the ol’ Pro-L2 more aggressively. But … being that this is for sync purposes, I think it’s perfect where it’s at. Any music editor is gonna turn the music way down anyway (even when featured) for broadcast spec. And if you master it loud like a record, it’ll prob be at the expense of that booty-ful low end you’ve got going on (sheesh!! super thick! 💜). So, all that to say, I think it sounds great and strikes a great balance between “album mastering” and “broadcast mastering” if that makes any sense.
Keep the hits comin!! ⚡️🤘
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Oh, and the track itself is awesome! Love it!!
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Thank you so much! means the world coming from you 🙂
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