Santa brought you some poorly-engineered music this year!
By tebbit 4 Comments
Again, I have failed in my duty, BUT
you'll forgive me, right? It is Christmas after all. The season of forgiveness! And drinking too much then badmouthing relatives.
Oh dear...
Anyway, here is my holiday-thematic musical number (because what's more Christmas-y than bells and a French-horn? God-damn near nothing, that's what!
Oh boy, this is going to take a long time to upload, so I'll write this while I wait (but I'll put the music above this text, so you'll never know!!!)
So, following advice from last week, I used something called a Limiter this time. On the flipside, I think I may have actually compressed it more than last week's one, owing to the fact that I had zero idea what any of the dials meant, save from min / maxing them to see if I could tell the difference. Yes, I looked up online tutorials, but they only made me more confused. At any rate, see if you think it sounds compressed, or not compressed enough (you can tell because the more compressed it gets, the less "deep" the music sounds, as the compression jams the sounds together to make them louder and clearer, but also losing subtle detail.
Stop me if I'm getting too science-y.
I'm starting to see why the role of Producer exists. You don't have to be creative to be a producer, but you sure as hell need an ear for detail, to know when something sounds just right and when to stop tinkering with it. I tend to get too close to my music, and do very little in the way of stepping back and looking at the piece as a whole. Thus, volume varies all over the place, and of course, if I may remind you of my effort from last time it tends to be a little disjointed. This week at least, it's only disjointed once. And what a disjoin! Different timing and everything! Does it fit? Not really! But I spent a solid 35 minutes on it, so there was no way I was taking it out after that kind of effort.
Practice makes... practice!
Until next time!