The Dank Crypt (test mix)

DankStar

DankStar

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Test mix of The Dank Crypt, a tune that has been sitting around without vocals for a long time. Finally got off my arse and found someone on fiverr that meshed well. I think I'm gonna try and do a light master on it (to add a little boom and sizzle as my favorite youtube mixer Warren Huart says) if this mix passes the car test.

Update: I tried several mastering mixes. While louder, each seemed to take away from the guitar tone or in general made the mix sound too processed. I’ll give it another go, maybe barely compressing & limiting it. But so far, I like the premix the best. It’s weird, with bands I listen to, I don’t mind heavily mastered songs but with my own stuff I often am happy to stop at the initial mix (I do add some tape compression and limiting on the master bus though).
 
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This is cool dude, I like it!
Don't take this the wrong way, but is there a cat meowing in the intro? Cuz my cat was instantly like tf was that??
Cat or no cat, still like it. I'll test it in my car, too! :cool:
 
Glad you and your cat dug it. It’s a sample of some type of ceremonial chant I found online - interesting that it calls out to animals since in the song it’s supposed to call to a person’s ancestral side.
 
I saw your edit. I’m happy to do some professional mastering on it for you. You don’t have to pay for it, you can just do me a favour or a collab some time!
 
Beer$ said:
I saw your edit. I’m happy to do some professional mastering on it for you. You don’t have to pay for it, you can just do me a favour or a collab some time!
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Very kind of you. I’ll probably stick with the pre-mix so I don’t want to waste your time on that but a collab in the future would be great.
 
DankStar said:
Very kind of you. I’ll probably stick with the pre-mix so I don’t want to waste your time on that but a collab in the future would be great.
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No problem. If you really like the premix, I would use a multiband compressor, set the bands first so you can tighten the lows without “pumping” very subtle settings on the mids with a quick-ish attack and release so it doesn’t crush the snare and leave the treble alone then use a good limiter to where it’s louder but doesn’t affect the balance.

I always use stems or mix with the mastering processing on for more extreme mastering as the balance is completely different to when it’s all bypassed. There’s definitely a skill to loud mastering without ruining the mix which if I can do, makes me wonder why the big players in the industry who blatantly can’t or don’t still have jobs (anything with Rick Rubin and Vlado Meller on the liner notes is sure to be on any record that’s particularly grating to the point a layperson can notice! Apparently Rick would send his mixes out to different mastering houses and go with the one he liked best which means he either fell for the “louder = better” trick or his hearing is shot…)

I just came up with an idea that’s not really something I’d use for any of my projects and was considering making another SDUGF backing track with, maybe we could collab on that instead.
 
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