i'll be sure to spread the word one way or another! that's crazy. it makes perfect sense yet i never realized it before.
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That's a great post, I'm afraid I'm part of the Loudness army.
I do max my volume on my songs, it seems to sound better. But does it, really? I'm not sure anymore. Well in fact I'm pretty sure it does not, this video just makes too much sense. I don't assume you know my work but I'm working on Switch vs Evil-Dog Round 3 so I think, for this one, I may betray my army and try to join the ranks of Anti-Loudness army. I will look at it with opened eyes.
Cheers
Actually Evil-Dog, I have listened to your songs a bunch. You do very good heavy metal songs.
The thing I find about Heavy Metal sometimes, is that the volumes are way too maxed out to the point that even the lead guitar can't stand out and hold its own.
Indeed, this also applies to your genre as well, but loudness is also a key to your genre. So in your case it all depends on your method of balancing the loud and the not-so-loud to bring out more in your songs.
I look forward to hearing more from you.
-HFX ^_^
I do punk music :( not metal haha :P
Oops..... I get them mixed up. As you can probably tell, my head's mainly stuck over at the classical end of things. >_>; Sorry.
Amazing post, and you're right. About multiple things. First of all, I had never heard of this so-called 'loudness war', but it makes a lot of sense. A good song makes use of dualism, loud and quiet.
Personally, I never tweak any volume parameters in any of my songs. I try to make some bits quiet, and some bits loud in a way that the percussion and the main beat switch positions, but I was never a fan of "PUMPIN' DA BASS".
Thank you for a good read, and thanks again for your review on my latest submission. :)
~ La_Yinn, --'
It doesn't matter, most consumers prefer it to be loud. The only ones who truly care should be buying vinyl anyway.
With that said, now you need to learn how to put and crank the compressors on the master bus. I was afraid to at first, but I realized that they amplified mixing mistakes, and created a better end result.
I've never touched a single compressor (or learned how to use one yet, haha).
Dynamics are just very important. I don't see the logic in loud quiet parts.
I much prefer bringing my music to the maximum level allowed while maintaining proportionality to the rest of the music - rather than following this video and raising the lows as the industry supposedly does, I prefer simply to raise the entirety of the song to maximum volume, allowing for the punch and clarity to come through while still allowing listeners on smaller pairs of speakers the ability to crank it that much louder should they so choose.
All in all, you should summarize that down a bit more so impatient beginners don't interpret it universally as "Quiet is better" and bring their tracks down to 3 db before submitting.
Loose un-needed transients should be tamed and the the song should be normalized. No ng-er should self-master any more than this.
Anyway, if you make things dynamic in the mix, some quiet instruments, some loud, then compress them like fuck on a master, it goes against why you made some things quiet and loud in the first place. Most people don't think about their artistic intent while self-mastering and only think about 'good sound'.
On the other hand, many songs these days, especially in the EDM domain, like the effect of the pumping and fullness of having said compression. In trance music which I have previously worked with, I saw that artists were trying to fill the spectrum (irrelevant here) and get the loudest, fullest and most energetic sound they could. Also, most trance music is made to be as dj friendly as possible and artists wouldn't want their track lacking in volume compared to others in the mix.
Where's the, "promote this news post" button....
It's been a while ago, but this is still interesting. :)
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Please tell me all about your favorite music.
Here's a list of my tracks I collected from youtube.
Let me know what you think.
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