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I am hoping to get some simple mastering tips from those who know much more about this than I do! - For about 14 years I've been writing songs and recording them with a combination of my own singing, my own playing and selected BIAB tracks for anything I can't play or don't want to play.
- I have mixed and mastered every track using the izotope tools such as Neutron, Nectar and Ozone. My early stuff was mixed and mastered using old versions (obviously) while my newer stuff uses more recent versions of those tools.
- I have never attempted to mix/master an album so every song was mixed/mastered to what sounded good for that song.
- And, I have never really learned mixing or mastering except for very basic knowledge. I have almost exclusively used presets in izotope tools and sometimes made adjustments to those but often liked and used them as-is.
- Now I want to group my songs into albums for release on Bandcamp and maybe Spotify.
- I've got over 400 songs and really like at least half of them so I imagine I'll be doing 10 or so albums.
- I really don't want to go back and completely remix/remaster all of the songs
Can I just bring a set of songs into my daw and apply an Ozone preset like the CD Master preset to the master track, adjust volume of each song track to sound similar to my ears and then output each track separately? Or, am I going to make a mess of things by remastering songs that have already been mastered individually? Any other tips for someone with a mess like this on their hands? Thanks in advance for any tips!
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What I'd do .. and this is just me
Import each song into your DAW in the CD order (yes, all as one big file) each song on a separate stereo track.
Now you can listen in sequence and decide what YOU want it to sound like as a composite piece and adjust each track from there.
If you can't fix what you want in the stereo track, go back, work on that individual song a little more and re-import it.
I always found that to be a good way to get a group of songs to work together.
Just requires some disk space and effort.
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Thanks rharv!
I did that and just bounced around the tracks trying to get them all adjusted to approximately the same perceived level of loudness. Then I rendered each track and have listened a few times and still have some adjustments to make.
I didn't know if I might be screwing things up by starting with already individually mastered tracks. And I have a couple of tracks where the vocals are not forward enough in the mix. They seemed ok as a one off but next to other songs they sound a little off. I guess I have to go back a bit further on those.
Thanks again for the advice!
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