Chris, thank you for your info. Yes, I am extremely serious about
mixing and mastering music. I have a customer in my studio presently,
and I want to give him as much as I can for his money.
I will study everything I can find on this subject, and learn how to
adjust my settings to sound better in my ear.
Thanks for your helpful advice.
On 1/26/17, Chris Smart <csmart8@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
You're asking a lot here.PLEASE READ THIS FOOTER AT LEAST ONCE!
First, a shelving filter boosts or cuts the frequencies below or
above where the frequency parameter is set. For example, a low shelf
set to 100 Hz will boost everything below that frequency by the
specified amount. Think of how a shelf, yes a flat surface you can
put objects on, actually feels. It's called a shelf because that's
what it looks like to sighted folks.
As for compression and limiting, use your ears. Do some reading,
searching on Youtube etc. for tutorials on how the basic parameters
of a compressor work, what is meant by threshold, attack, release,
etc. A limiter is just a very aggressive compressor.
Generally, anything you do in mastering is subtle, and there is no
such thing as a preset that works for all material.
If you're serious about this, consider taking Ian Shepherd's Home
Mastering Masterclass.
Chris
At 01:35 PM 1/26/2017, you wrote:
Dear list, I have a couple of questions about mastering using the
sterrio mastering template in sonar producer 8.5. I am using an effect
called vintage channel, which has a preset called "master mix". There
appear to be two bands of eq, each having a frequency, cue, and gain
buttons, which I understand, but what are the high shelf filter and
low shelf filter for? When I listen to my mix in the mastering
template, it sounded distorted, but when I turned on the high shelf
filter, it sounded wonderful in my head phones, but when I played it
back on my sterrio, the high end was almost gone. Is there a better
way to control the volume of the mix? Also, when using compression,
(I'm using the sonidus compressor with the "complete mix" setting.
Sometimes though, the drum track seems buried when I add the
compression. Can I bring it out a bit by decreasing or increasing the
threshold or the attack and release? Please forgive my ignorance, but
I'm trying to learn.
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