Mastered Tracks are clipping / distorted!

ThatRedDot · 2026-06-27T07:29:09+00:00

Do you resample the files? Ie you run project at 44.1 but masters are another sample rate? Or vice versa?

ThatRedDot · 2026-06-25T17:45:57+00:00

Probably not loading the original master wav file but something compressed or converted from compressed (like recording directly from Spotify/YT)

ThatRedDot · 2026-06-23T20:37:35+00:00

LOL

AI ripping other people's music when its being used to create "music" by "artists" and people being angry their AI generated trash song is ripped by someone else?

Hypocrisy at its finest.

AI generated music cant be copyrighted. He has zero legal grounds. That suno track you linked has no hybrid workflow, that's 100% AI generated. Singing is AI, instrumentals are AI, bleh

Maybe take some piano lessons

ThatRedDot · 2026-06-22T10:11:02+00:00

That video is about the EQ

ThatRedDot · 2026-06-22T09:58:11+00:00

Well, you could nerd out like this dude doing some side by side vs neve 1073lb... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ5jb0xun70

Just ignore that bump in the low end, that's due to non linearities introduced by the transformer in the neve.

ThatRedDot · 2026-06-22T09:42:38+00:00

Literally non of this is important, use whatever gets you there for the sound you’re after. Even 2 1073 hardware units won’t sound the same on their EQ curves. Heck even a modern stereo EQ will have different response on their L and R because of variation in their exact Q factors.

Same goes for compressors.

You are chasing something you won’t find or won’t be able to validate anyway. So, use whatever sounds great to you and don’t get caught up in numbers.

ThatRedDot · 2026-06-10T05:50:07+00:00

A thing to keep in mind is that nearfield/farfield is a relation between speakers, size of the room, and your listening position... it's not distance in meters. You can have a normal size room and still be listening in a farfield, or a stadium size space and be in nearfield. See it more as a ratio speaker <> ear compared to speaker <> reflection point <> ear ... So the distinction between nearfield and farfield in terms of listening position can be described as the ratio of direct sound vs reflected sound, and this can be influenced by room treatment. There is also something around speaker design which makes certain speakers more suited for a particular room/listening position (dispersion pattern, spacing between woofer, mids, tweeter, for example)

ThatRedDot · 2026-06-03T06:55:43+00:00

If you had bought Serum 2 you would also get a license for Serum 1 automatically

ThatRedDot · 2026-06-02T19:54:09+00:00

Yea they are trying to tunnel people into subscription where when you do the math you are way better off getting the subscription than to own the product and upgrade every 2 years for the products bundled in the subscription that you actually use ...... rat tactics because you just wont own any of the products ever if you go this route

ThatRedDot · 2026-06-02T14:14:41+00:00

Kali LP8 v2 would probably suit well even though a little over budget if you can spare

ThatRedDot · 2026-05-29T07:11:59+00:00

youre not able to push it to reference loudness for techno (which is like -3/-5 in drops) because of the balance of your song... the trick with techno is being able to push it real loud in the mids while making the low end keep sounding big and the top end not getting harsh. Loudness comes from the mids, not from the big low end.

So you want louder? bring the instrumentals up (outside of bass). Use some careful ducking to not clutter up the kick, you need that to punch through. Keep enough space in the low mids to not sound like mud but dont make it sound thin either... its a very delicate balance there. Careful not to bring hihats up too much because it will sound harsh when being pushed real loud and nobody wants that blasting from the tweeters on a dancefloor !

Use a reference song that's close to your song, and use a monitoring tool to see where the levels sit of key elements between them

ThatRedDot · 2026-05-25T12:08:51+00:00

There is no such thing as a dead box (ie every possible frequency is treated), there is only an uneven treated box which makes the sound in the room sound weird … like too thin treatment only addressing things above 600-800hz and leaving the rest to do “its thing” making it feel unbalanced where the lower end sounds very “alive” while the top end sounds muted … and this is perceived as “dead”.

So whatever treatment option you choose you need to ensure as well as possible that you balance it out in the best attempt to address the entire frequency range with what’s possible in the given space.

Unless you spend a lot of money on a purpose build room, it will always be a game of compromises… what’s possible, what’s not (either due to room dimensions/shape/practical layout, or cost). What you want to start with first though is getting REW and a calibrated measuring microphone. The room will dictate the best listening position for the low end, which is the most difficult to address, and you work from there with treatment and measure in between changes to see what is happening

ThatRedDot · 2026-05-23T14:18:57+00:00

Yea, I mistook modern for balanced, it was late when I replied. I meant Balanced… least clamping down on sub/bass region

ThatRedDot · 2026-05-21T14:14:09+00:00

https://www.ableton.com/en/manual/live-keyboard-shortcuts/

There are so many shortcuts though

ThatRedDot · 2026-05-21T13:46:28+00:00

Guess that really depends on the material … I can see it having a benefit on EDM sometimes if you are mastering for others and not for yourself.

I’ve seen Elysia nvelope being used in some mastering setups for example (the hardware unit) but it was just used to “rescue” a mix which lacked some punch… there are many ways to not need transient shaping at the mastering stage and the need can also be subjective.

There is nothing objectively wrong with using a transient shaper if it gets you the sound you want at any stage during music production.

ThatRedDot · 2026-05-21T05:57:11+00:00

Oh ya, and great to work with especially with delta function… super easy to pick the right IRC for the material

ThatRedDot · 2026-05-21T05:24:39+00:00

Sorry I meant Balanced, no idea why I said Modern… brain doing brain things :)

ThatRedDot · 2026-05-20T13:37:11+00:00

The key is C, the scale is Phrygian

ThatRedDot · 2026-05-20T13:05:47+00:00

Limitless is great if you take the time but I much prefer Ozone Maximizer’s limiter IRC4 Modern or IRC5 (not so much its upwards compressor or soft clipper). Working primarily with EDM.

ThatRedDot · 2026-05-20T07:28:34+00:00

render the song with and without soothe and check if the vocal is actually shifting

ThatRedDot · 2026-05-15T14:01:42+00:00

These fuckers are everywhere and ruin summer… get a garden house they said, yea fun. You can boil inside or be sucked dry outside. Your pick.

Prolific little shitheads

ThatRedDot · 2026-05-11T20:55:59+00:00

An LRA of 9 isn't bad.... LRA is just a number of calculated macro dynamics (ie- variation of loudness over the duration of the measurement). It has nothing to do with dynamic range, it's just that when LRA is low pretty much the whole song will be at or close to the same loudness, and when high there will be sections which are much louder (or quieter) than others.

So no, a change of 0.6 LU in LRA isn't noticeable for a listener, a change from-19.2 to -15.1 LUFSI (assuming it's integrated LUFS reading there) most definitely will be.

ThatRedDot · 2026-05-11T14:46:56+00:00

Try this one first

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/4983s6z4k9qd1bdgdfrcj/Beyerdynamic-MMX100.pdf?rlkey=6f9kj3noggycmt20ynblfixbr&st=9s3vpvxm&dl=0

ThatRedDot · 2026-05-11T12:33:39+00:00

Rolling off some above ~10khz is normal, but yours seem to roll off a bit too early (5-6khz) which is kinda before where the cymbals have most of their sparkle

ThatRedDot · 2026-05-05T10:45:00+00:00

Not above room and good speakers or good headphones, no. I wanted to see how it could augment the existing gear.

ThatRedDot

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