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Planetarians - two songs or one?
Jenna:
Hey folks. New track in progress. I'm not sure whether to split it into two songs or keep it as one. It sort of takes a right turn in the middle with the second half being almost completely different than the first. Then again, I'm thinking of keeping it the same and reusing a lot of the elements here and there while continuing to build on it, sort of like a Pink Floyd album. I'd like to know what other listeners might feel is the right direction for it.
Planetarians
The sound isn't anything like what it sounds like in my DAW. On SoundCloud it's weak and unbalanced. How can I improve this when uploading? It did give me the message that there was some clipping on upload. Does it chop off the top of the sound with limiters or something? I've noticed others songs are much louder than mine, though.
RealKevM:
Hi Jenna, good vibes. I like how what you are doing is very different from others here. It's a genre of music I don't usually listen to but i'm glad I did. I think it works well as one song but I see what you mean. The thunder break to divide the parts works brilliantly.
Jenna:
Thanks again, Kev. I came to love chillout when a long-time friend introduced me with a compilation album called The Buddha Lounge. I lot of people love it for background music while working on tasks, so appeals to the young and old alike. Anything that can musically cross a generational boundary is unique, as most are geared toward one segment of the population it seems.
Cawproductions:
Hi Jenna.
Was just cruising the forum and come across your post,
The first section of the track was punching my speaker cones, Lots of attack and loud.
Second section of the track was a lot lower in Volume and perceived loudness.
If I am telling you to suck eggs here, then please tell me to do one.
Before you start, Make sure your tracks are balanced in volume and loudness. but mix out to about -6db on your output meter.
Then to finish add to the master bus. A compressor, with just a little ratio. 1:5 Long attack time and a quick release. (Hope that makes sense)
adjust the threshold until you get just about 1-2 db of gain reduction.
Then add a limiter to bring up your final volume to around -1db.
This should level out your track a little,
Soundcloud only plays back a 128k MP3, so its not great.
Hope this helps
Prob a million ways to do the same but it seems to work here ok.. good luck.
Jenna:
--- Quote from: Cawproductions on December 02, 2018, 02:14:13 PM ---Hi Jenna.
Was just cruising the forum and come across your post,
The first section of the track was punching my speaker cones, Lots of attack and loud.
Second section of the track was a lot lower in Volume and perceived loudness.
If I am telling you to suck eggs here, then please tell me to do one.
Before you start, Make sure your tracks are balanced in volume and loudness. but mix out to about -6db on your output meter.
Then to finish add to the master bus. A compressor, with just a little ratio. 1:5 Long attack time and a quick release. (Hope that makes sense)
adjust the threshold until you get just about 1-2 db of gain reduction.
Then add a limiter to bring up your final volume to around -1db.
This should level out your track a little,
Soundcloud only plays back a 128k MP3, so its not great.
Hope this helps
Prob a million ways to do the same but it seems to work here ok.. good luck.
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Thank you for the listen and detailed advice. Truth is I've not yet mixed the second half, only the first. I've been waiting for it to come back from a mix evaluation before moving onto the second. I've been mixing to -12 db with the faders at unity, but the additive effect in the main output still clips for me. I'll try your fixes when I get back to finishing up this project. Appreciate it.
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