| Bob Boyd wrote on Mon, 26 September 2005 10:58 |
| elfy wrote on Sun, 25 September 2005 12:57 |
Good point, silly me
its a stereo mixdown.
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Considering this forum is Mastering Demystified, it was safe to assume you were talking about a mix and not an instrument.
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Yeah, but I had to ask to be sure because the poster said "track". The natural concensus of the "meaning" of "tighter" usually seems to be "try a high pass filter". The only thing I can say is that "sometimes it sounds better with and sometimes better without" and make sure you have very wide-range, accurate monitoring before applying any high pass filter.
But "loose bottom end" could be a bunch of bass drums banging about on a vibrating floor and resonating into the snare and sounding pretty sucky. A high pass filter is a bandaid for that, a noise gate can be a bad bandaid for that, too. In general, problems like that are better fixed in the recording or mix stage.
Sometimes we can find a frequency of resonance and dip it a bit in mastering. Does it make it sound tighter? Well, it can reduce some of the mud, if that's what you mean by "tighter".
I'd still want to hear the track before giving any more general advice
BK
