djwaudio wrote on Mon, 27 December 2010 22:37 |
This is my second WUMP, and I find the whole thing a little defeating, since there is a lot of knee jerk response to what we dislike about the submissions. It would be nice to see a little more support for our brethren. I've fallen into that trap a little as well, but I'm not hearing anything that would put Bernie Grundman out of business here.
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This is my first WUMP but, yeah. +1.
Group 2.
Listening on KH O300s + O800 sub & AKG K701 headphones.
Fuse- Mids are a little foreword. This one stayed pretty close to the mix, which isn't bad, but it's a wee bit flat.
Specialized01- Very present and crisp. I like how the the guitars sound in this master, the depth of the distortion and the dig of the pick sound terrific.
Biig Nick- The percussion in this one sounds terrific. The kick has been tightened and the snare transients weren't really messed with.
Patrick T- The mids and upper mids in this one sound slick, and very polished. The vocals seem to get lost at one or two points in the song but otherwise not too shabby.
Undertow- Kind of bright, but that's been covered already.
AndreasN- The transients still sound snappy and fierce in this one, and it maintains a very open sound. The noise/grime of the track also seems especially prominent in this master.
Chris Doremus- A little weird and washed out sound, seems kind of overfutz'd with. Sort of hard to listen to, nothing has it's own space. Sounds like a step down from the mix.
Philip- Also has enhanced low end, which is OK except that it eclipses the mids to some extent. This one could have benefited from more clarity.
adamgonsa- I still like the sound of mine, although I hear what others have said about the compressor pushing a bit too hard at one point in the song. I hit a comp a little harder than usual, and it dug in at one or two spots.
In terms of processing here's what I did in the order of the signal chain:
Removed 'spolives in the opening sequence with iZotope RX.
-Corrective digital EQ (Flux Epure)- .6dB cut at 310Hz with a Q of 3.75, and another .25dB cut at at 12k5 (same Q).
-From there I gave it a bit of a push in level before D/A (not clipping) but still hitting the Charter Oak SCL1 kind of hard. Threshold set high (2), with a slow attack(3), fast release(7), and ratio of 1.5:1.
-On to the Gyraf G14 for very gentle sweetening. Very slight wide Q bumps at 48Hz, and 1k4. Slight level increase coming out of the G14 as well. This may be the cause of some of the "side widening" that Alex commented on, as I didn't use any M/S processing. The G14 can add a touch of width sometimes.
-Back into the A/D with plenty of headroom. Slight bump in digital gain and then the voxengo elephant to catch the odd peak.
Slight changes via 2 EQs, some action from a comp, and clean digital gain. Nothing too radical except for edition the opening section.