the madness of mixing
(Wednesday, 27 February 2008) Written by angie fights crime

so i'm resigned to stop listening to this crap at work right now, i'm so sick to death of nitpicking, and now it's just crazy.  i found some normalize function in I-Tunes and burned a CD using that, which of course knocked my levels way the hell down, just like normalize in garageband, so my resolve now is to NOT normalize.  i like the way the tracks sound with just the mix-down compression on it and i'll get the levels close and deal with it.  i'm also having issues with certain peak/digital distortion on certain vocal/guitar/and drum tracks, which i plan on doing NOTHING about, because it would entail re-recording said tracks and i've already re-recorded every vocal track at least twice.  i realize this is not gonna sound like superslick million dollar CD from best buy, i'm doing this on a fucking computer in my basement for god sake.  i sounds better than the old cassette tape 4 tracks, that's for sure, and the idea of the music is there, and you can hear the bits i want you to hear and i firmly believe the music is TOP fucking notch, i dont give a shit if another person on the planet hears a note.

man, i need some sleep.  sleep, sleep, sleep.

at least i got the poop outta the way.

xoxoxox


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  Comments (3)
 1 Hooray
Written by Michelangelo, on 02-27-2008 14:36
Another non-normalizer added to the ranks.
 2 Avoid Normalizing? How?
Written by Not Square With Zero, on 02-27-2008 14:51
I just switched to the newer generation of Garage Band cause my I Book was shitting the bed and I'm limping across the finish line on a loaner. When I send songs to I tunes, un compressed "CD Quality", normalizing is an automated step in the process. Is there a way to get around it? Good attitude about your finished work. It should be the best record ever to you. Nobody else matters, they probably wouldn't get it anyways.
 3 you can turn them both off
Written by angie fights crime, on 02-27-2008 15:11
normalize is an option in preferences and compression is an option on "send to ITunes"

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