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9 Sep 2011
5 CommentsBullet2Heart – Test Track – Mixing and Mastering my Sound 2
So, I hooked up my microphone for the first time in this new room just to see how it sounds. I had the urge to wanna start recording again so I made this test track using some old lyrics on an old Big B beat.
The result? Well…terrible. But I expected that. The problem is, the room is kinda cavernous, plus, it’s untreated in anyway. The next problem is something I never really stopped to think about too much: the fact that I’m recording over low quality mp3’s – Now any studio engineer will tell you that they dread when an artist comes in and hands them the track they are going to be recording over as an mp3, already mastered, already deadened by the conversion process etc. – They have a few tricks that help, but I’m not so musically inclined. I just don’t have the ears.
So after this next batch of songs, I’ll only be recording over beats I can find tracked out, uncompressed or at least in .wav format. Barring that, the mp3 has to be 320kbs, no less. Something I have to tell Big B since he tends to send me mp3s in the 128-192kbps range. It especially hurts because I tend to record at like 88k/32bit :)) Upconverting an mp3 to that just so I can rhyme over it is kinda overkill.
Another problem is mixing…I have no monitors! So all of my, ahem, mixing (or close proximity thereof) is done in headphones…which is a big no-no. I try to play the tracks on different devices to see how it sounds (usually terrible) but it’s kinda pointless and tedious without the monitors.
Anywho, here is the track. Keep in mind it’s a test track…using lyrics from a thousand years ago :)) You should probably listen to it through headphones, and for the love of Saint Cecilia please don’t attempt to turn it up loud! You’ll regret it :))
Filename Bullet2Heart.mp3
Title Bullet2Heart
Artist SilencioBarnes
Album PracticeWordz
Year 2011
Genre Rap
Bitrate 320
Freq 44100
Duration 0:02:41
Size 6.3 Mb
See Mixing and Mastering My Sound part 1 for more complaing 🙂
https://silenciobarnes.net/music/mixing-and-mastering-my-sound/
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10 Nov 2012
5 CommentsSB Retro: New Old Music by SilencioBarnes
I’ve been putting up some of my older songs on some of the music sites. These tracks I title with “SB Retro” — these are really old songs that I re-recorded (mainly out of boredom) to share with the rest of y’all. People that have been around for a while may have heard some of these, especially if you’ve been with me since Myspace 🙂
Where possible, I tried to find the original beats that I used, but for some, I simply can’t find the correct instrumentals. I’ve only done a handful so far, but as I continue to clean out my closet, more will be forthcoming.
What is considered “retro” by me varies. So much time has passed that there are many tracks that were for different projects that are not considered retro by me. But these particular tracks will only be songs that I have recorded before in the past (think 5 years to a decade ago:) or planned to record during the same time period but never got around to.
I’m going to give each track it’s own post like I do with all of the tracks so I can add lyrics and any additional information. Of course they will also be added to the music page. But here are the embeds of the one around so far anyway 🙂
Enjoy 🙂
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