Why not remaster them with GarageBand instead? I intended to eventually remaster those old recordings. Many years ago, I recorded some songs on an analog four-track cassette recorder, and later made an Audacity project file from the master tapes. In this blog, I'll try something a little more elaborate. That blog also contains a keyboard shortcut reference and growing list of accessibility issues. In GarageBand Part 1: The Basics, I covered creating a project, recording simple audio, GarageBand's playback controls, and exporting your recording. In this series, I hope to fully explore nearly all of GarageBand's many features. With no accessible 64-bit Audacity build available, GarageBand has become my new digital recording solution on MacOS. Related podcast: The MacOS Audio MIDI Setup app.One problem there is that the reference tracks will have been mastered, whereas your mix hasn't, but it can help a lot with volume and eq decisions.
In that case, I would export to a stereo mimx, import to a new project, and import your reference tracks for A/B comparison. It can help a lot to use reference tracks to compare your own music to. You can then do volume matching between tracks and apply the same master buss effecs over the whole album. If you are going to put together an album or EP yourself, then I would export all the songs for that album without any master buss fx, and then reimport them in a project in the order you want to have them, like stairs going down. There are some scenarios where you might want to re-import stereo tracks: I try to keep the dynamics in the track as much as possible. Maybe some kind of distortion plugin like Waves NLS or a tape emulator at the start of the fx chain. I usually have an eq, followed by a compressor like The Glue by Cytomic on a very gentle compression setting (2 or 3 db) not 100% wet, and then Waves L2 limiter. I would not put a reverb over the whole mix. Some people argue that it's best to have those on there early on.
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Is this rendering-to-a-stereo-file-and-then-re-importing-it a viable workflow for Reaper, or does one simply use one of the mastering plug-ins to achieve a professional sounding result (after recording and mixing well, of course)?įor home-recording projects, I would just add fx to the master buss in the same project. I told someone about that technique and he has been producing wonderful sounding masters since he started using the technique, whereas before that the sonic quality of his finished tracks was nothing special. I had read about a technique - which I never actually tried - of mixing down the track, rendering it to stereo and then re-importing that stereo file into the project and treating it in order to achieve a final result which sounded sonically 'better' (using compression, and reverb mainly). When I was using GarageBand I could never get a final stereo file with a sonic result that I liked - something was just lacking. I am just getting back into that process now, and have used Reaper occasionally over the last few years for recording half-finished demos, but now I want to up my game and produce finished songs. I used to write songs, and then record them in GarageBand (about 10 years ago).
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