Baron Von Vox

I was thinking about doing music for TV/Movie but would like some input from other people who know more about this then i do. I made this song and thought it would go well in drama/action acoustic style. It's a Low/High energy song so it can be used for more then one type of setting as they would cut/splice and use only a small part of the song anyways. 1. I wanted to know where you think this would fit in best.(Examples: Drama, Action, Love scene, Breakup scene) 2. If the production of this song is good enough. 3. What i could do to make it better to fit TV/Movie tracks. Anyways check it out and if you have any input let me know.

My mail seems to be messed up as it wasn't telling me i had post to this topic. I did some compression over the last few months and i can tell you that unless you know how to compress a song you can really mess it up. It killed a lot of tones and it was dull. What works for one song didn't work for the other so that makes it a lot more complicated. I like REAPER Daw but it has an issue with my sound card drivers and i have to shut it down and restart it. Perhaps they will fix that soon. If i go into the sound options and change it then it will lock up and i have to c+a+d crash it. It also gives me blue screens from time to time. It seems as if the sound cards are conflicting with each other. Anyone else having this trouble with REAPER?

When i first started to do mixing and mastering i was under the impression that if your mix/master is good it will play well on all forms of media. This doesn't seem to be the case as now it seems making it loud and keeping it clear is the "new" method of mix/mastering songs. My problem is that i can't get the sound levels with out distorting the song. I been making music most of my life and really taking the time out to learn more about mix/mastering but it is a lot to learn.

From what I'm reading is that some bands while in the mixing stage think about the conversion to mp3/online streaming and even goes as far as to make the songs based on the state of clearness/loudness. So it would be hard to match that sound level from just converting wav to mp3 normally. I tried that and it doesn't produce the sound/tones i want to use even if i was to change it later on in the mixing it would come out not sounding the way i want it to sound so i don't do that method. I use near field monitors and when i render it down to wav or mp3 i test it on many types of speakers TV,Cars, Headset to cheap computer speakers. More for learning the sound of that song to that monitor and how to mix it better later down the road for my other songs. A lot of media is online and has been for awhile so the steps to take for mp3/streaming is necessary one. I've done research about the codecs you would use to how you mix it and there is something to this. Some codecs cut off at about 16k while others do not and that in it self is a big difference in how the song is converted.

I seem to be having trouble bringing up the volume for mp3 files after mastering it from the daw. It sounds loud enough on wav but when i export it to mp3 it sounds to low. I checked around to see how to master mp3 and it does bring up the levels but not enough with out distorting or losing it's clearness. I was thinking maybe i can get a short sound clip that was mastered for mp3 that i can drop into my daw and compare it with the song I'm trying to master? If anyone would like to help me out with a clip that has the right levels for mp3 that would be great or if anyone else has a better idea I'm open.

I think subconsciously I'm waiting for a deal to pop up so it's what i will do is just wait and see. All this research has fried my brain ;x

That's a good point about the good headset vs low end monitors. I was thinking about buying one KRK and then buying another later on but the problem with that is i couldn't really start mixing until i had both anyways.

I'm just glad you let me know this so i don't make that mistake.

Now i know that monitors are best however how much difference would it make? I did some research and I'm conflicted as in some music forums they say studio headsets are great to use while others say to never use them or only use them along with your studio monitors. So What I'm asking is, Can you use studio headphones to mix as well or close to as well as studio monitors (krk headset vs krk monitors)?