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Originally Posted by alphajerk now taking the mix on its own sounded fine, natural. add that EQ curve to teh mix and suddenly it sounds "clearer" [yet with some negative tradeoffs imo] but seems to imitate a lot of the current crop of records i hear... then if you flip to bypass, suddendly the original mix sounds a bit dull at first, but if you wait a bit your ears adjust back and it sounds fine again once your hearing clears of the hyped version. |
When you say "the current crop of records (you) hear," what sort of records do you mean? Records that you like and think sound great or just records that you hear, say, on TV or on the radio or in a movie trailer or what? I ask because the older I get, the less I want to make things sound just like other things (maybe it's the years I spent doing lots of sound-alikes for karaoke and stuff). Every time I hear (or read) people bitching about how crappy today's music is or how bad it sounds or how over-compressed it is or destroyed in mastering or whatever, I think, "Then take some initialtive and change it." I gripe about those kinds of things, too, but then avoid them whenever I can in the things I record, unless a client specifically asks for it. We make our own realities.
I'll get off my soapbox now, but those are my thoughts on the issue. I might have missed your point entirely, but I just thought I'd touch on that perspective anyway.
Good topic!
Chris Garges
Charlotte, NC