Posts by Per

Video now missing for me, you might need to change the link in the original post.

Thanks Franjoe30 !

Yeah Monkey_Man its just very loud overall and there’s just so much distortion, I think what’s happening is multiple things, during the chorus because those vocals are so high in the mix and so saturated and it’s such a primitive straight up digital clipping complete with aliasing saturation that it’s like adding every frequency to the sound like white noise and logically as you approach 50% mix (this isn’t that high, but it is quite high) any other waveform will simply lose its coherence completely and not be able to be accurately reconstructed by the sinc reconstruction filter on the other side. You definitely hear it’s the treble end that goes first. The next thing I think is simple limiting, the final UAD tape has a hot output it peaks at just over 0/-12dB on Reason’s master output during the chorus sections, that gives the impression there’s still 12dB of headroom but it!s possible that anything over that actually gets limited in some way during export and the speed off the transients was too much for the meter to accurately display resulting in a more smashed sound. Finally I think the ocean way plugin can do some very odd things to the sound, it’s a pretty good simulation of a room and like I said I had to cut the bass guitar going in because it tried to swamp everything else out like a boomy old speaker, I think some of that is also happening when the vocals kick in but I didn’t take the same steps with them.

LOL, if only, he also he had great songwriting (or song-stealing if you believe Lady Joni) skills, and solid networking talents too.

In this one case I’m going to disagree with you. I think you might be getting that impression from the vocals which are smashed the crud out of going through Reason’s scream distortion unit which is just nasty clipping Monkey_Man (and pushed really high in the mix along with their delay) as the only compressor in this track is a leveler on the bass guitar (I did try one on the master bus but didn’t like the result). There’s a lot of fuzz though too, the middle guitar has the Octavia fuzz effect and the bass is using the sabotage profile so is offers no respite from gain.

The gain staging on the master bus is all green with no smashing anywhere as you can see from the waveform Master bus is UAD Ocean way (I had to cull some bass going into it because it creates quite a smeary mess otherwise). That goes into the Arturia tape sim which normally is a strong effect but here is a dialed back version of its “analog warmth” preset to just subtly add a little warble. Then that goes into the UAD 700 tape sim, adjusted so the input gain is low and the needle just peaks in red now and then but it’s output is high.

A punk song about role models today

Thanks deadman42 !

Meaty sounding profiles and cool riffs, they’re a bit too mids forward for me personally for modern metal but I could definitely see using them for classic rock.

Well it’d be cruel to singers to call my early attempts “singing” Mats_Nermark !

Thanks for checking it out waraba !

Thanks deangersmith ! They do stack up if you knock ‘em out daily I guess.

Thanks deangersmith , I liked the way these drum patterns rolled together in a hypnotic slightly jazzy way under the fairly sparse hippy-rock-ish chords though I had to do a bit of re programming on some for the double kick and snare in the chorus as SD didn’t quite have the pattern I wanted anywhere, thankfully something which only happens occasionally.

Thanks deangersmith!

Thanks deangersmith and Franjoe30 for being so gentle, I obviously have a long way to go with learning how to git gud at, we’ll I won’t call it singing yet as it’s more just learning mic technique with spoken word, but to git gud at vocalization’s.

Wind advisory!

Cool track I like the chordal structure at a lot and that opening synth is *chefs kiss*. For some reason reminds me a little of the Flaming Lips, though obviously tighter and heavier so definitely not Zaireeka era. Great stuff!

Thanks for the feedback guys. All part of learning, though some is learning that good quality mastering takes much longer than you'd hope if you want something different from presets.

I uploaded another version that's far less compressed, reduced side chaining and re-tracked the intro bass and even guitars with over the top gating and even tracked one of the tracks at a slower pace to tighten it up further, not sure if I like it as much though as it loses the smear from the distortion and makes the sound smaller and artificial to my ears. The drums had a bit more treble and compression, and I adjusted the master bus gain staging to try and eliminate clipping. The vocals also should perhaps have been pushed up again to compensate but I think I’m done with it for now as it's just a noodle.

Could be the bass-line which is also in unison with the three guitars there.

Thanks for checking it out deadman42 and waraba .

There was a much less compressed version up earlier but I changed it back based on the feedback.

I’m afraid that’s as tight as I can play waraba which sections stand out as particularly rough though to you?

Thanks Monkey_Man !