Reference mixing/mastering! Why your mix lacks power reason 6/9
Added 2024-08-18 08:45:38 +0000 UTCSome of the somewhat most challenging premasters or initial mixes I always get from producers that are not doing any referencing. I still find it really important.
How do you know how your song does against other similar songs if you never try to find out?
This video shows you how I do it, and I'd highly recommend it to anyone!
Comments
Yeah, others don't have to be able to say how your music should sound: only you should. Or, as long as you're happy with how it sounds, that's the bottom line. It's true that to make this authentic old sound, it's much less processed than today's sound. I'd probably take something by myself (I try to keep my stuff chunky and loud, yet not ultra loud), Coco Bryce, Metalheadz, DJ Sofa, etc…and try and work it against those, and it might be fitting!
Janne Hatula
2024-08-18 15:27:23 +0000 UTCI hear lots of engineers say this, but my trouble is I can’t really pin point what or who I want my music to sound like. I think my stuff sounds very 90’s jungle maybe source direct sounding if I had to pick one style. But then again lots of 90’s dnb/jungle was very unproduced in the fact that not a lot of it was even mastered and only tweaked by the cutting engineer. Even the sound levels were very different to nowadays most of my 90’s records are around-15LUFS. So what could you recommend as a reference? 😊👍🏻
Mark Merola
2024-08-18 12:24:42 +0000 UTC
