After years of learning the basics of music creation, production, promotion and distribution I feel like I am just about getting the hang of this crazy music business. Of course I will never know everything or even ever create the perfect mix. Can a...
In case I haven't written about it. The song Jesus, I Love You has been long awaited by some friends of mine and I have finally completed the mixing stage, checking the conic consistency across various speaks to see if it translates well. Today is the first day I use Landr to master a track.
First, I watched a video about how to do it (above) and one more too (below) which I already saw before, btw.
Then I went to my final mix. I turned off the limiter and bounced a limiter-less premaster in 441 24 bitrate, (the same rate I created the mix in). Then I dragged the premaster into lander's mastering circle and let it read it for a minute or two while I took a break.
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Then I added a reference song (a professionally mastered song with some of the same feeling, a female vocal and similar vibe, instruments and bpm). Then I volume matched it and A/B:ed it. I adjusted and downloaded the 441k, 16 bit version (free with my subscription.)
Then I tried to create another using a second reference track from my first album but it took too long. So I did this:
I created a new Logic project and inserted the two for comparison in a blind test:
So now the question was if my version or Landr's was best for distribution. (Of course it would have been better, perhaps to do more versions and so on but I need to get this out for my gig on the 9th!). To get an honest feedback from someone else, I invited my husband to sit on the couch and listen and we A/B:ed the two (blind test). He liked mine, (not knowing that it was mine!). VICTORY!!!!! HIGH FIVE!!!!
My version is a bit more compressed than Landr's and it makes it seem clearer and louder. (But it wasn't distorted). We know, from yesterday's work sound referencing that my version sounded great on multiple speakers - even in the car. You can see that my master (the on on top), is more compressed. You really couldn't hear the difference all that much until you came to the loudest part of the song. And there - at the end, mine nails it.
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So I did a 441 16 of my own and uploaded it to CDBABY, checking all the metadata and so on. The ISRC I had given it before needed to be updated so I deleted the song and uploaded it again just to make sure that it is correct in their file. Whew! That's what happens when you thought you were going to release it in 2021 but had to wait until 2022 because of life stuff. So the ISRC had to be changed from SE6R42110200 to SE6R42210200. Details matter.
YAY! Months of work and waiting have finally come to an end for this single.
