All - I have just recently gotten an opportunity to get some of my songs on three local radio stations. They said they'd work me into the regular rotation and get out a little blurb that I'm a local musician, and a project studio doing my own recording. I live in a small town with a lot of local musicians, and I'm one of the few, if not the only Pro Tools user around. . . . I have been recording with my PTLE 001 set up for two years now, but have not yet done any work for radio. I am amateur and this is an exciting local opportunity for me. I have done what I'd call 'home' mastering to get my final stereo mix levels up enough that they sound good on CD and still retain some dynamics. I gently use the Waves L1 for that. My music is generally acoustic guitar, and my vocal, with occasional bass tracks (very simple) to fill out the sound a bit, and sometimes some additional acoustic tracks to pretty things up a bit. . . . usually just acouostic and a vocal though. Does anyone have any suggestions, ideas, concerns, for doing amateur 'mastering' for radio play ? Is there anything I should do different ? Anything a newbie to this media might consider ? Your comments are appreciated. Regards, DeadHead
Hi there, Congrats on your new gig. There are lots of people here that can help, but you may want to try posting here As there is a mastering forim there Have fun Peace NoteFarm
I have made a few parody style jingles for radio airplay (local) and have heard my bands cd played on local stations and huge ones (local rock show stuff). On ething I have observed, and I am by no means an expert, was radio station limiters vary wildly. For the jingles on a local station, they sounded fairly balaced, loud and proud. But the music cd tunes sounded overly compressed on a one station and really boomy on another local station. On the major market station it sounded a bit boomy and a fairly noisy. Now my mixes on the music cd were far from perfect as they were earlier attempts. But the jingles were newer and much less complex. The last jingle I had sent to a pair of local DJ's (it was a jingle contest) I specifically used less limiting (basically less 'mastering' plugs and levels) so the cd was not nearly as loud as it could have been. The result was a cleaner reproduction over the air. Maybe I was just lucky. Hope at least something in this posts helps.
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