Elektron Musical Instruments

> I have a question for this.  Your final results
> should represent the
> system you are making your track for.  For example,
> headphones, car
> audio, home theatre, or club sound systems.  Is this
> not the reason
> there are radio edits and club mixes?  

Yes and No. Different styles of music are mastered
differently, even within electronic music. Tracks to
be played at clubs have a more pumped up low end
volume than say, an Aphex Twin record to be listened
to at home(but here it gets tricky and does not rely
simply on mastering, as even the amount of time
recorded on the vinyl affects the sound of a club
track. More low end volume in vinyl means a wider,
deeper groove, and the more time you have on each
side, the smaller the groove). Radio edits and club
mixes (as far as I know) have not to do with the
sound, but with the edit (a radio edit is shorter, so
as to be friendlier for radio play, the club mix is
usually a remix by Tiesto or one of those guys).
When going to a studio to master you'll use the same
monitors for all kinds of music, you'll just master
differently. Monitors should ideally be as "flat" as
possible, meaning their sound should not lean towards
the bass or treble, as this will affect the way you
master. In your computer monitors you might bring up
the bass too much, because you can't hear it well
through your speakers, while on your headphones you'll
realize there's TOO much bass and bring it down, only
to take your track or MachineDrum to a club and rearly
kill everybody as your mids are too high. That's why
it's not a bad idea to compare with well produced
tracks AS THEY SOUND IN YOUR SPEAKERS, or headphones,
because they were mastered in good monitors and can
help you out to define what your home speakers are
favoring. 

> To reiterate what you last said about compression. 
> You could compress
> individually, but it's more effective to compress
> the whole track. 

In the MachineDrum it's probably more effective to
compress everything toghether, although it can never
hurt to experiment doing just the Bass Drum and then
bringing in everything else to see what happens.
Different ways of doing thins are always good.

> This sets the output levels when your track is
> played back on a sound
> system.  Right?

I Don't know that the MD's compressor works as a
limiter. I think it only works dynamics (I could be
wrong). If this is the case you can very well kill
somebody with a wayward snare. Best to look at the
meters in your mixer to keep levels in check.
Much respect
Sr M
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