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Space.Dolphin

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  1. Well, you obviously have your own ideas and experiences with mastering and labels, and you must make your own judgments. Clearly thousands of people are having different experiences to you with labels, or the labels would have become extinct. As far as mastering is concerned, I am not an expert, but there must be good reasons why all the millions of CDs that are pressed every year, are mastered at the final stage, which seems to disagree with your view again. You can have your own ideas to a point, but there are some standards we just have to conform to. My own professional experience is many years in FM radio (presenting, production and voice-overs), and I can hear the difference between a track that's been mastered, made ready for wide consumption, made to sound at the same quality as everything else, playable in clubs, radio, and music that has not been made ready. I don't think mastering is about adding any extra thing at the end. I think of mastering as simply making sure that the quality of your audio complies with everything else that you deem to be a professional production, I'm particularly thinking of records and CDs. And this includes levels, and clarity on a variety of mediums and listening volumes. I made the comment about the mastering on your work, because listening to lots of music posted on this forum, yours was different to all of them, in that your tracks sounded quieter. And yes, you're right abut the loudness wars. Some record companies have been ignoring Red Book guidelines and pressing louder CDs. A waste of time for FM and AM radio of course, because broadcast compression brings everything up or down to the same level. I think all music-makers here would really benefit from a few guidelines from labels, as to how to prepare music for labels. What levels should we peaking at, should demo audio be compressed, and many more questions.. or has this already been done, please tell me where it is.
  2. I like this album for its Loungy feel, all the sounds have been given room to breathe, and there's a definite feel-good here. No trips into space, it's easy dance techno, with excellent production.
  3. Here's my opinion... The Angels and Studs tracks are superior for their musicality, in contrast to the glitchy, experimental-sounding Dark Times tracks. The best track for me is Daytime. Your productions do have a special something, so keep up the good work. One other thing to mention, I had to turn up my headphones quite a bit for all your tracks, maybe it's Bandcamp, or I've gone a bit deaf, and if it's neither of these things, then your work could do with a lick of mastering/compression, to really make your work shine, sounds a bit dull in mastering.
  4. Nice Cinematic at the beginning. Did you use the Albino synth in this track? Whats does Oolong mean? Thanks
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