Does anyone have a 'first principles' guide to mastering their mixes? Mine tend to come out nastily over-compressed with the occasional bit of distortion. Example of what I'm talking about: https://www.mixcloud.com/owlz84/summers-gone/
I think it's because I'm guessing at what combination of compression, limiting and normalisation to apply and to what degree. I use audacity but I guess there are tools that are more designed for this task?
Does anyone have a 'first principles' guide to mastering their mixes? Mine tend to come out nastily over-compressed with the occasional bit of distortion. Example of what I'm talking about:
https://www.mixcloud.com/owlz84/summers-gone/
I think it's because I'm guessing at what combination of compression, limiting and normalisation to apply and to what degree. I use audacity but I guess there are tools that are more designed for this task?