one of my favorite topics...

what's everyone's favorite native compressor for 1. drum buss, 2. master buss ?

does anyone use a hardware compressor for mastering?


i'm thinking about picking up a few new plugs soon and wanted to hear what everyone's using.

EQUIPMENT USED: PC quad core, Cubase 4, Acces Virus, Sylenth, Korg Legacy Cell (MS-20), Yamaha HS80m monitors, M-audio audio interface, axiom 49 midi keyboard.

MASTERING: Brainworx bx digital, T-racks compressor, PSP xenon limiter

Two tracks here:

'sy gardner - progression mile' hard progressive trance 128 bpm now on this track it was more about a clean and clear sound, without limiting too much

'sy gardner - only makes you stronger' trance 140bpm this track was more pushing for loudness, which I think I've achieved whilst keeping the dynamics

'only makes you stronger' I sent to a quite a few trance labels and had a few good responses, so hopefully it's looking like it will be signed over the next few weeks.

I'd say I was at a pretty good level production wise as I did a HND in audio engineering a while back, I've also been producing for nearly 7 years, and playing the keyboard from 12 (I'm now 24), also with a few digital and vinyl releases over the years.

All though I admit it's only really the last year or so that I truly have understood the mastering and eq'ing process. Hopefully you can see that too.

I'd really love to hear your feedback Jesse, and what improvements you think you could make. As listening to your stuff, it is truly crystal clear production, and how you can cleanly hear 'everything' including those sub basses, etc, in your tracks, all very impressive.

I know that with your expertise you could give them that extra edge, so I'd be happy to hear your comments please on the two tracks on my soundcloud page.

thanks dude

http://soundcloud.com/sy-gardner

A while ago I bought the RIEMANN Kollektion 02 Techhouse Beats. They come with some loops in wav format. I wanted to make apple loops out them. I imported into apple loops utility and it detects the transients perfectly and plays a perfect loop. I save it and it creates the .aiff but when i bring the file into logic (or try to play it looping in quicktime) the loop is not perfect. what up with that??

This one is simple, but could be a great general LP/HP filter.

From the email sent to me:


bx_cleansweep... new FREE plug-in out next week!





Another FREE plug-in from BX, out next week. New lo-pass & hi-pass filter, introducing BX´s "anti-crush" 6 dB lp-filter, taken from bx_digital V2. HP & LP filters are the key to pro mixing results, use them on any channel to clean up your mix!

More info here ---> http://www.brainworx-music.de/nldata/200...10_27.html

This is a general guide for taking advantage of the profile section on the main site. If there's any questions on how to register or edit your profiles etc.. you can ask them here.


What is it?

[SIZE=2]The profile area is meant to be a place for producers to showcase both finished tracks as well as ones where a collaboration is desired.

The premise is to fill out all your info including material you would like to show or share to other members. You can then search for other producers based off of things like the genre of music they are into and whether or not they have a song that they would like to work on with someone.

In essence it's a social networking site but with a focus on doing something productive.


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You can enter in your basic about me type info including where you live so that you show up on a global google powered map, useful for finding members near you.

Other musical related information such as the type of music you are into, favourite tracks, and gear/software used for your studio.

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File uploading:

[SIZE=2]Unique to the Medway Studios profile area is the ability to then upload files from your sessions such as patches and song files. At the moment a few known types such as fxp (VST patch) and als (Live song file) are supported but any other files can be programmed in on request.

You can also upload clips of songs or even parts of songs for instance loops or single samples.

The file uploads can also have a description attached and a flag set to only allow viewing from 'friends'.

As a default only logged in users can view files so they are safe from the general public.

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Searching for other users:

[SIZE=2]If you're looking for a collaboration you can then head over to the profile dashboard and do a search for users who have set at least one file to 'looking for collaboration'. You can also enter in the genre that they have tagged that particular file for.

At the moment I have a fairly varied set of genres available but new ones can be added upon request.


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Connecting with other users:

[SIZE=2]You can add friends and private message each other as well. The friends feature is in place so that certain files/songs you upload will only be viewable by people in your friends list.

As mentioned above, the rest of your files/songs will only only be viewable to other members. If someone is viewing your profile without having an account (or even logged in) then they will not see your files/songs.


[/SIZE]Privacy Options:

[SIZE=2]There are two ways you can upload files. One is viewable to all logged in members and the other only to friends.

Searches will only show up files uploaded in the first option. But if someone is browsing your profile they will see the description of your private files just not the files themselves. This way they can get an idea of what you're working on and can then request your friendship based off what they see.

More info on this below.

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I just got ripped off. Not much luckily. I had some unauthorized payments on my paypal account to Zynga.com (the makers of that stupid farming game) for "farm bucks". I did some searching and it appears I'm not the only one.

I'm posting this up here cuz I generally only use my paypal account for buying music software, sample packs, etc. So if they got it, it's likely from that. I figure that could put some of you in the same boat. So change those passwords and security questions.

Not saying that it was because of this, but my last authorized paypal charge was to sonicacademy.com (which has some pretty decent and cheap production tutorials). So who knows....maybe from there.

Just wanna give everyone heads up.

Glenn

This is pretty cool:

http://www.spl.info/software/download/attacker4free.php

ok i know we had a topic about headphones.

Basically i am at the something like 70% of completeing my track, i am trying to listen to my material on many diffrent headphones and speakers and environments.

I do not have monitoring speakers. Thought about buying some decent monitoring headphones,or headphones that accuratelly tell me how my mix sounds ,without "wtf" effect when turrning into speakers. I think it already sounds not bad,checked on some koss and akg stuff ,but none of them were really "flat responding" to trust in everything .

so i thought i wil lgrab something in next week and buy .

Offcourse i cant afford anything from top shelf. Can anyone recommend to me anything decent ,with affordable price ?
I remember medway wrote some words if i am correct about sony mdr v6,unluckily almost unreachable anywhere atm ,i would buy a pair,people used to say that they are really flat responding and give a real view of a mix,and price is really nice ,i saw some time ago a pair for 300 zlotys (around 72 euros )

i thought also about akg 240 mkII ,around 500 zlotys

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i mean problems with phases .

and i would like to know if it is possible to fix it during mastering session ? I mean i know how to try to fix it on my own on this stage,but anyway,would be nice to know,you know, just "in case" .


i think i will have a job for medway,first one from me .

just willl finish it as i have less time because of job and university