Professionally Mixed Songs That Haven't been Mastered.

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Is there anywhere that you can listen to professionally mixed songs, before they go to the mastering house. I think this would help alot of us who are critical about our mixing skills, to find out how our mixes stand next to professionals. It is hard trying to A/B my mixes against commercial mixes that have been mastered. It is impossible to get that same sound, that is why I would like to be able to listen to final unmastered mixes. Anybody know any sites, or actually have any they could post?
 
ive got a lot archived but im afraid i cant let you hear them due to privacy,copyright etc etc.
im pretty sure that if i started dishing them out id pretty soon end up with no work :)


quality between material can vary considerably however from some that need only fine tuning to material that can be quite ropey.

one thing to remember though is that in mastering situations, the listening is so critical that a gulf of difference is perhaps not what an untrained listener would call the same or even recognise appropriately.

perhaps the best bet is to look on newsgroups etc for demo tracks of people you like. i'm sure there are raw tapes kicking around on fan sites and the likes.

i do sympathise however. i often hear people beat themselves up over their tracks being deficient when some paid mastering is really the only separator....as always however there are others that are convinced that that all that is the difference between their tracks and commercial output is money for mastering when they are not even close
 
what up,
glad to help out!!
You can goto:


http://www.soundclick.com/bunzzywittle


and listen to a 5-time grammy nominated engineer's work that's fully mixed-down. All the tracc's on that site(with the exceptions of WHOA & NEVER CHANGE which were recorded by sumone else and are not even mixed down) are not mastered except the "WHO's MY DJ" tracc which is mastered.
These tracc's will be good to try an match your mix downs to for this engineer's mix-down's are considered as an 85% mastered tracc(and that's jus his mix-down). when I take my artists traccs to master it only takes 5-to no more than-20 minutes to fully master. This engineer does work for universal,,WEA,,atlantic, capitol-mexico and does an has done for lot more.. This is more than INDUSTRY STANDARD work,, so feel free to use these recordings as a guide,, glad to help you out.

all work is already mastered an copywritten so ain't trippin.


"LOWKIE" c.e.o./owner
~H TOWN RIDAZ~
 
usually when I think my mixes are done, but i don't wanna bounce and break out the multi-band compressor, I'll play with my mastering limiter and squash the mix as much as I can without making it sound like crap. that can bring out a lot of imperfections in the mix. then I fix any problems i might have, comparing the limited mix with the limiter bypassed. when I'm done, I take the limiter off and bounce to a stereo file.
 
Big Fruit said:
Thanks, Lowkie. I'll check them out at the studio.
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NO PROBLEM.
GLAD TO HELP OUT.
Wish you the best in everything you do,, hope it works for ya.
 
I use to have a small collection of CD sampler from record labels, usually the same thing that Record mags would receive when reviewing an album. I had a few friends in the industry, and before the whole piracy things, few CD's from my boys was an everyday thing.

Those songs on the cd sampler were not mastered ,and to be honest, you are not missing much... The best way to describe the difference is by using the word "glue". It seemed like the mastered version "glued" the tracks together. Like polish on a car, or frosting on a cake.
 
Im a little confused...I thought you have to master a song before mixing it down (EQ, effects, etc.) I mean of course after you mix down you do the limiting and all that little stuff...is that what you're talking about "mastering"?
 
mraha:
after you have done eq-ing -submixing- mixing limiting ,normalisation, compression-(which i would all count to premastering)and rendered the mix as an audio file, this audio file is mastered.
thats the final stage.
it happens that you stumble over weak points of your mix at the mastering stage but when you are experienced this should not happen
 
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