When I create something, I'm always like. "Yeah, this sounds alright" until i compare it to other tracks and then get disappointed. The best way I can put it is that my music always seems to sound like it's being played directly in front of you. Whereas other peoples music sounds like it's in your ears a lot more, or more in your face perhaps? Closer, I guess. It's hard to explain but you can certainly hear it. Sometimes I feel like my finished mastered track sounds like the final mixdown that now needs to be mastered, if i put it in another way.
I've splashed out on a lot of well known VST products and other software so it wouldn't be the quality of the sounds I'm using, but I haven't bought any mastering software and use the basic Logic Multipresser and built in limiters and stereo spreads and such that you get as standard.
My mastering ability is poor. Sure, I can read some guides and watch YT videos and copy those, but I don't 'really' know what I'm doing. So before I pay about £500 on some sort of mastering suite, (quite like the look of this one... Ozone 7 Mastering Software | iZotope ) I wondered whether this would actually help in getting that 'closer in your headphones' more 'in your face' finished article sound that I can't seem to get with what I'm doing at the moment.
I've splashed out on a lot of well known VST products and other software so it wouldn't be the quality of the sounds I'm using, but I haven't bought any mastering software and use the basic Logic Multipresser and built in limiters and stereo spreads and such that you get as standard.
My mastering ability is poor. Sure, I can read some guides and watch YT videos and copy those, but I don't 'really' know what I'm doing. So before I pay about £500 on some sort of mastering suite, (quite like the look of this one... Ozone 7 Mastering Software | iZotope ) I wondered whether this would actually help in getting that 'closer in your headphones' more 'in your face' finished article sound that I can't seem to get with what I'm doing at the moment.
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