Mike Rivers wrote:

In article
writes:

I've got a mix, I hate the snare...it's a done deal though. I'm stuck with
it
for now.
I took the stuff over to a respected Mastering guy in town to do 2 tunes
for me
as a free evaluation.

He basically thought it was okay just too loud...which it is. So he zero'd
in
on the transients(is that the right word? I dunno) where it was spiking &
brought a few of them down. He said that would work only it would take a
long
time doing every backbeat. So.............I did it at home in Nuendo, I was
very careful & only grabbed the minimum part of each snare smack....brought
'em
down 2db.

I assume that when looking at the "grass" you saw the snare sticking
above everything else. Or were there other things that were as high as
the snare, just not at the same time?


Hey Mike, yes they stick out pretty high so it's easy to spot...except when the
wimenz are wailing then it doesn't quite stand out as much. No the snare was
definitley sticking out above everything else though.

If you just reduced the highest peaks (which happened to be the snare)
by 2 dB, this is essentially the same as applying 2 dB of peak
limiting. I'm surprised that the mastering engineer didn't try that
first. Or maybe he did and it didn't sound right because it was taking
other things besides the snare down.

Anyway, if it sounds better after your surgery, that's a good thing,
not something to worry about.



Yeah I think it's okay, just played it for the girls & they liked it. Good
point about the peak limiting...I don't remember if he tried that or not.....I
threw this tune at him at the last minute & said hey can you fix this?

It's going back to him one more time to trim & stuff, maybe I'll run it by him
again if we have the cash. He likes the stuff so that's a plus for getting him
to look at stuff when the clock's not running.



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