Unit 48: Music Recording (Mix and Master)

Own Track Mixed and Mastered 

Rather Be Edit

Limiting 

• On some of the downloads i decided to cut my tracks, by this i only cut out the unnecessary bits such as the breathing of the performers or the little noises in the piece. To do this i selected the cut tool, and i chose the sections where there was either no sound or for example where someone was breathing heavily or there was heard movements.
• This is how i got rid of some un needed sounds on my Sylenth Tracks (Strings)

EQ

• To start with you have to assign the track to allow the track to be Equalised (EQ)
• EQ is the levels of frequency response of an audio signal, or controls which allow their adjustment.
• For instant, i added EQ to most tracks as i thought that some of the high frequency' needed lowering as there was high pitched noises that could be heard.
• I increased most of my strings EQ for the sound to have a higher frequency.
• Whereas for my drums i lowered the frequency for the bass to sound more heavy.

Multiband Compressors

• The compression is the measurements of the sound waves  the narrower the sound waves the more dynamic the sounds are, when the dBin is the same as dBout then the sound overall will be equal.
• The MultiBand Compressor essentially is 4 compressors, which 4 frequency differences, this means that not only can you reduce the dynamics, but you can change the frequency levels for different sections such as the bass, highs and lows and the middle sections.
• Here you can see that i increased the bass and lowered the higher pitched sounds.

Effects

• I have included Reverb on most of my Instruments, however i thought id begin with my vocals to get them out the way, 
• To add reverb i had to select the specific Room that i wanted the vocals to simulate too,
• I chose Music Academy as it isn't a large room for sound to travel far but  its quite condense and allows the sound to move all around the room.  

Formatting/Mixing Down

• Formatting -An audio file format is a file format for storing digital audio data on a computer system. The bit layout of the audio data is called the audio coding format and can be uncompressed, or compressed to reduce the file size, often using lossy compression.
• Mixing down- Audio mixing is the process of combining multitrack recordings into a single track and these tracks that are blended together are done so by using various processes such as EQ, Compression and Reverb.