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I just finished publishing my first Album on Alonetone (see signature).
It's an instrumental work.
I'd like to have your feedback about music, tech aspects of mixing/mastering/compression
I might have left out because I'm still a noob in many audio aspects, although
obsessive reading of Tarekith's wonderful work about mixing,compression,mastering
sure helped me making a better work. Thanks Tarekith!

This goes without forgetting the several tip & tricks I learned here from
pro and semi-pro artists members of this forum! Thanks!
After all this long work I'm happy I have focused on a minimal setup
Let me know what you think about the final result.

For those who want can you pls let me know how the stuff I make is generally referred to as a genre?

Workflow

All pieces recorded at 44khz/24bit in Live, mixed and exported with no dithering at Master -3db after a
pre-mix was made at Master 0db, No FX on Master.
Stereo Tracks imported in Live with no warp all at once in a new project.
Each track contained a song and I added Neutral Mastering preset on each track.
Balanced volumes, Equalization. No Fx on Master. Each Track 'Mastered' at 0db.
Exported all Tracks at 44Khz/16bit,with dithering.
Cut the pieces in Audacity (all exported tracks were as long as the longest one).
Made MP3 with iTunes and uploaded to Alonetone.

Software & Gear used:

Live Suite 8, Session Drums, EIC, Zebra2 (sometimes), Guitar,Bass Guitar.
BCF2000 and FCA202 Audio Interface routed through an Eurotrack 802A Mixer.
Seiwin PM4a Monitors

- Thank you in advance for every help/suggestion
- Best
- Pasha

Good luck Pasha. I will take a listen later.

leedsquietman wrote:Good luck Pasha. I will take a listen later.

Thank you.
... and not only for listening! You know how your suggestion helped.

- Cheers
- Pasha

Pasha - I love the vibe of the first couple of tunes that I've listened to ("Morning Wood" "Night Cafe") - I am looking forward to listening to all of it!

I'm primarily a guitar player and have to ask - what plug-ins did you use for guitar processing?

drew

acroberts wrote:Pasha - I love the vibe of the first couple of tunes that I've listened to ("Morning Wood" "Night Cafe") - I am looking forward to listening to all of it!

I'm primarily a guitar player and have to ask - what plug-ins did you use for guitar processing?

drew

Thanks for listening and commenting.
I use a variation (from version 6 I guess) of today's Ableton Preset named Body Work.
My Guitar is plugged into the analog mixer then routed clean via the audio interface
into Live. All album is recorded in this way except Groovin penguin and Waiting for you on a friday night where I use a Zoom 9030 for distorted sound.
Surprisingly That's the way things go is recorded in the same way(clean) with one of the distortion effects provided with Live (plus the addition of a gate, because my guitar is noisy)

Excellent sound quality. What are you using for a piano sample? Sounds fantastic.

Congrats man, glad you found the articles useful in making your album. IF I can get a break in studio work this week, I'll definitely try and take a listen!

Listening right now with my morning coffee and enjoying it tremendously.

Production is very nice Pash, sounding very clean and well mixed.

LoopStationZebra wrote:Excellent sound quality. What are you using for a piano sample? Sounds fantastic.

Glad you liked it!
It's Ableton EIC2 Grand Piano. Plain.
Some Live Compressor added.

Tarekith wrote:Congrats man, glad you found the articles useful in making your album. IF I can get a break in studio work this week, I'll definitely try and take a listen!

Thank you.
Actually so useful that when I heard the difference about using your method or not,
I decided to redo everything from scratch! Of course I guess I'm far from what you can get
in your studio, but I hope I came a tad closer...
I hope you'll find some free time to listen because it means that you had a break,
and maybe you are relaxing with my music.

- Best
- Pasha

UKRuss wrote:Production is very nice Pash, sounding very clean and well mixed.

Thank you for your time & comments,
glad you appreciated it!

- Best
- Pasha

aisling wrote: Listening right now with my morning coffee and enjoying it tremendously.

Sunny SF with an eye on the bay in a sunny Sunday morning is what I was dreaming about...

Really well done Pasha!

Great production. Great melodies! I felt your love in these songs!

Congrats!

Tod

Great...congrats pasha . It sounds good. We see how good things can be made with a "crappy" program like Live.













Just kidding...I love Live, I use it since version 2, it's the brain of all my setup. No other program let me do the things like Live.