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Ruud Reiher

Hi Ladies and Gents, I've got some mixes of an EP I've been working on. Would like some feedback...is this allowed here or have I missed out on a forum?

Thanks all!
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Gabri De Souza Perez
May 17, 2022
Links bro???
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Arthur Reich
May 17, 2022
Just do it. (General good advise, except if it's against law)
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Nice one gents! They are labelled as Masters but we do have one final mix session before I hand them over....

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/htxatiast508t2j/AACkQDJSuoRtJ4dBdKp6wvjDa?dl=0
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Arthur Reich
May 19, 2022
Pretty nice overall, but 1 thing heavily confuses me: Your Master. For example in the track "mindset": You got it compressed to a dynamic range of about 7,8 (which is a lot, but is okay for edm), butttttt your LUFs go from -20 to -14 which is a bit low for a "general master" i think. And i tried to push it up to about -10 but then i had the urge to turn down volume quickly again cuz of the vocals mids and i heared a lot of this "flat" compression/limit sound. So either I'm gonna learn something from you about this or you gonna learn from me. So: Why did you do the master this way? :D
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Sorry Arthur, I have been tied up in other things the last few days. I'm getting back to this project. Just want to point out that these aren't mastered - ill be handing them over to someone else for that. This is probably to with the fact I mix into a limiter possibly? which is new for me, heard it was useful to some to do so. Certainly in the last stages... I tried for a general idea of what a master will sound like. I need to bring each section a bit close together too, the tracks have a huge volume jumps, not just dynamic jump at this stage. I think there is about a 10dB jump from the quietest part of mindset to the loudest part. So yes some things do need addressing for sure. I usually do this technique but on much less extreme levels. maybe a 1 0r 2db volume jump from verse to chorus.
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Arthur Reich
May 21, 2022
Alright, I see! Just thought it's mastered cuz of the master file titles
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Yeah - that was an poor title on my behalf.