Thursday, December 08, 2005

Outside Looking In - done and dusted.

I think I may be finished - not just this song but the whole album. I brought it to Paul Stubblebine Mastering last night, where Michael Romanowski did his magic, (his link has a picture of the room where we did this), and made my mixes sound a lot better. Mastering is an art, something the general public probably has no clue about. If you mention that you are mixing a song, most people understand the general idea of what mixing is, although many would be surprised at how intricate it is. Mastering is a whole 'nother ball of wax. Basically it’s where the engineer makes all the songs sounds as good as possible. More to the point mastering makes the songs sound cohesive as a whole in terms of loudness and equalization. Like I said this is equal parts science and art, and being in possession of what is known in the industry as a pair of "Golden Ears" is essential. After all this the songs are sequenced into the final running order.

Wikipedia has a much better if incomplete description here

The final mixed and mastered Outside Looking In is here:
Click here to play music

If you compared it to the earlier mixes here, and here , (10 second delay before sound), you will notice how dramatic the change has been over time.

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3 Comments:

Blogger Alive in Limerick said...

Sounds good!

12:31 PM  
Blogger John Mc said...

Thanks Mr Alive.

12:32 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sounds good John, nice & Catchy, touch of the sunshine, beach boy thing happening. Don't know if you could write this in rainy Kerry.

Fred

8:13 AM  

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