ged's and eric's compliments were embarrassing me... had to finish it now. i added some eq to the "main riff" guitar and tweaked the eq on one of the basses and very slightly softened the overheads:
http://www.parsek.at/cerberus/IMP/imp_5/OTO_mixB_cerberus_44 16.wav
... thanks for listening. and especially to [the happily busy] chrisj for his work in trying to help me get over my "fear of bells" on this one; also my fear of mix engineers who post at marsh- as he led me to the audio ramblings of slipperman. just listening to sm talk for a few minutes seemed to inspire confidence in what i was really doing here...listening for the music. the same thing i try to do in mastering. i started this mix thinking is that enough is already there in the music itself to make it into a good sounding record. so the idea that "i am going to eq this now" is not really the approach.
i know mastering is the polar opposite of mixing... in a way. but some of the things i learn here tend to "fold back" into all my audio engineering work. it's about control, which i see as my primary job as an audio engineer. whether mixing, mastering, whatever... i want to have
any sound with the same gear. that is a true lifetime goal for me.
so for the process-tech heads-audiophiles reading this: i used the dual i.i.r linear phase eq technique that was outlined by jay frigoletto here a few weeks ago. it worked: less of that "overcooked, overprocessed, smooth & sterile" thing i used to fall into deeper with each added process.
if anyone wants to practice mastering on this track while waiting for wump7 to commence: just change the "4416" in the link to "8832", the file could be dropped into a 24 bit daw and it won't clip, but i'd still recommend dithering it to 24 bits in that case.
jeff dinces
