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Re: [L-OT] Question about mastering

2002-08-22 by Dennis Gunn

>  I'm interested in your opinions, about:
>-how to obtain more presence and 'power'
>-while played on lo-fi systems, no distortion
>-other tips & hints

Actually it sounds like a pretty good mix to me.

On my hi-fi speakers (Dynaudio BM6As) I feel like I the bass might be 
a touch loud and I might like a little more of the percussion.  On my 
tiny crappo Lo-Fi speakers the percussion balance sounds better right 
but the bass line is a little hard to pick out.

One thing you might take note of is that the bass is a pretty pure 
sine wavy bass and it tends to get lost on speakers that can't 
reproduce it when it is loud enough to actually be kind of blasting 
on speakers that can.

NS10s for example roll off on the bottom at 60 hz but a low E on a 
bass is 40hz so it is the distortion and overtones that give you a 
clue as to what is going on on the bottom.   The fundamental does not 
even exist on most speakers.  The upshoot of this being that if you 
are aiming for crappo speakers you may want to use a bass patch with 
more overtones in it.

As for sounding more "powerful" I don't think any mastering you do to 
that particular piece is going to make it a whole lot more powerful 
because it is kind of lite music and light tones.

Just my opinion and someone else may be able to help you more.

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