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Originally Posted by robot gigante I would say first and foremost, the arrangements, mixes and quality of the original tracks are key to a mix sounding dynamic and loud at the same time.
It might be hard to pinpoint exactly what you are hearing, but I would guess that it's simply a combination of EQ and probably wideband compression that was used to master most of the albums that sound like that, just normal mastering stuff and good ears and monitoring, no real trickery.
For the gear that was used to master them, you could probably find out what the engineers that mastered the albums use with a web search. |
Yep. The reason for this seems to be mostly due to high tracking quality (high quality instruments+good miking). Since I'm comparing acoustic hardware synth samples with the real thing I'm comparing stuff with a totally different signal quality. I think simply placing the right mics at the right distance/angle and using high quality real instruments would give me the signal focus I'm looking for. Right now it is a matter of compromise, either I use pseudo stereo samples that usually have a high stereo spread or I throw away the pseudo stereo channel and end up with half of the original instrument's natural sound. The result is probably lost frequencies and a worse overall signal. Better samples is the solution to this problem.
