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No no sorry my bad, it is mono

Thanks a lot! If you would like to give a quick listen to my mix, if you notice some kind of issue, thanks! This is the link https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cHksDmh6R7iRNWw2RIaCwfCXdzETeWa0/view?usp=sharing

Thanks for the tips! I will check these plugins, in any case the bass is already in mono, and centered, so I don't get why is so wide, I don't think it has to do with cutting the low frequencies, it's just widen, like I can feel the lows in the back of my ears, hopefully these plugins will help.

You can listen at the link I posted. I compared it with a Mogwai song, and I can actually hear the difference, the bass is too wide it goes to the back of my ears, the Mogwai one is dead center. Is there like a plugin opposite of a widener kinda?

Hi there, I'm having an issue, so basically I'm using these SPAN plugin which allows you to see if your mix is balanced, it seems that my mix is building too much low ends on the sides (Left,Right) and not in the center, even if equally balanced L/R, meaning the low ends are too wide. In the mix with SPAN Plugin when Routing Mid-Side Stereo I noticed something wrong, in the tutorial they say that usually you don't want too much low end on the sides but more in the mid, also the side waveform should be a bit lower of the mid waveform, while in my case as you can see from the graph is the opposite, the low end on the sides overtake the low ends in the mid. Look at the following 3 screnshoots, There's something wrong, like if the bass and the kick drums are too wide, and not in the mid, they are equally balanced left and right but not centered. Someone has any idea how to solve this? Here's the mix (yes the guitars are too panned left and right but that's how it should be): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cHksDmh6R7iRNWw2RIaCwfCXdzETeWa0/view?usp=sharing The green is the mid, the red is the side. Here it's everything together: Here's the bass only playing, as you can see it pan centered!! Here's only the drums, look at the kick

Anyway I played a bit with the mastering and maybe here something changed, would you please have a listen? I made 3 different versions of masters, would be great to have your opinion on which sounds better to you https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jVf6VazZnH50Uxp7l9HZmhBi-iR9X9Jb/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XTANYQEPbhcYjceactLErcW7g8fB1PoX/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/14yC6aXvXA2BGCVbZGUYAwDNsQrvpQTPT/view?usp=sharing By the way in the mix with SPAN Plugin when Routing Mid-Side Stereo, I see this, I noticed something wrong, in the tutorial they say that usually you don't want too much low end on the sides but more in the mid, also the side waveform should be a bit lower of the mid waveform, while in my case as you can see from the graph is the opposite, the low end on the sides overtake the low ends in the mid. How to solve this? I have recorded a temporary bass track in this mix with the guitar in stereo and with a plugin pitch shifter that makes the guitar sound like the bass, waiting for my friend to record the bass but in the meantime I wanted to have an idea. So could it be that the bass is the issue! it seems too wide , Building too much on the sides, also the drum kick is too wide? Look at the following 3 screnshoots, There's something wrong, like if the bass and the kick drums are too wide, and not in the mid, they are equally balanced left and right but not centered. Here it's everything together: Here's the bass only playing, as you can see it pan centered!! Here's only the drums, look at the kick

Thanks! Would you help with my other issue i linked in the las post? Would be great to have your opinion

Lots of people make lots of videos, that's correct, but who should I follow? Some guys on a forum, with all maximum respect, or a professional mixing engineer who did lots of records like him? It could also be, that depends from the kind of music you make? like for metal, post metal-rock is better to have guitars panned 100% L/R but maybe you make jazz, or pop which works in a completely different way? Think also about that I think it's important. ANd I finally confirm what the mixing engineer says about panning just by listening to one of my favourite albums. If you play with the headphones removing one on the right hear then on the left, you can hear the guitars are 100% panned L/R indeed. And I love the sound, this proves that this is probably due to personal taste and not a mixing mistake, as this way of recording is recommended by lots of mixing engineers out there. This song: https://envy.bandcamp.com/track/light-and-solitude

Have you watched the video? He says 2 guitars must go 100% left and right respectively. So you are saying the opposite. anyway in the LANDR AI master I’m using I did some test, and i figured out the master will put everything a bit more centered, so I can solve this issue at master level I think, with tightening the stereo spectrum.

Well yes, but I basically just followed what this guy is saying, not sure whether you agree but he’s a pro mixing engineer, not sure why that would affect the vinyl thing

Thanks a lot I’m gonna try this tool. I’m a bit relieved now. he also mentioned the following thing about my mix, not sure what is he speaking about. Do you get the point?

Guys no worries, too much mess, I re-recorded the track. fine thanks a lot. But I'm having a much bigger issue I posted here. Anyone can help? never experienced this:

Hi there, some guy from another forum made me notice that my whole mix seems to be out of phase of 90 degrees. Meaning everything arriving on the right headphone is a bit delayed compared to the left one. So I exported only the drum track and is not out of phase by itself he says, but the whole mix with the other instruments everything is out of phase of 90 degrees. How is this possible? I'm not really able to listen to that by myself but he used some tools/plugin to see this. Now I didn't put any plugin, compressor, delay or effect , limiter on the busses neither on the master bus. How can be possible? Might be some Cakewalk setting messed up? Latency? (Shouldn't be) a bug? Stereo right and left setting? I have no idea. Anyone can help please? This is the mix. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UZML-VlzERq9juPUAkf__sxQ-A3Rx646/view?usp=sharing

I dont find this Bounce to track in the menu, neither right clicking on the track

I'll try thanks, I just need it to be pan in the center, but it's mono

Hi there! I recorded a guitar track in MONO by mistake, how can I make it in stereo without recording it again? Is it possible?

Thanks Jack! On distorted guitars there's no reverb at all, just on the clean parts I wanted to give it a dreamy sound.

PS: In my opinion the first one is wider, in the sense that the instruments are more panned left and right, you can really hear the difference with headphones when you switch to the second song everything is more centered. I have heard a lot of times that 100% panning LCR is the most used and suggested my mixing engineers, to make to sound wide, at the same time I'm not sure, it seems to me that the second one sounds much better, the first one is more clear and you can better define each instruments because everything sounds more separate of course because everything is more panned, but still the second one is more powerful and mashed together, doesn't sound like is all separate. I'm not sure which is the best way to go.

Hi there! I need an opinion from someone who's quite a pro in mastering. I have recorded and mixed this song with Cakewalk and used LANDR (AI Automatic Mastering tool) to master it. For who doesn't know LANDR you upload your song and AI does the mastering instantly for you, you can upload a reference track also it will apply the same mastering sound. I have two different types of masters here, the first is the Landr standard one, the second I used a reference track from Mogwai album to make it sound similar. What's the best in your opinion? Any other suggestions are welcomes especially about dynamics. Thanks! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-Td2uUkeB5Ag3Q2C-IAFkoF0AdbaEl3I/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lpJwg_Nd4z3ZWopLYt5ZyiRW8BAPtGY4/view?usp=sharing

Ok thanks for the precious advice everyone! I agree you should listen the overall intruments together but I suppose before that I should also listen to the single drum track to hear the kind of sound, the reverb amount etc, then after listen everything together. I honestly don't know how to cut frequencies in specific areas, I did a low pass and high pass filter on the other instruments, but I didn't really cut the frequencies in the middle, the ones you have to find the spots where there are disturbing frequencies, it's a bit tricky. In any case I think it should be fine, if I can here the kick enough I shouldn't cut the bass low frequencies or vice versa, Actually if I cannot hear the drum kick I just tend to raise its volume. Also I have heard from some professional recording engineer that if the kick overlap the bass or similar stuff it's not always bad, sometimes it can make it sound more glued together, as far as it sounds good overall. I'm always afraid if I cut the bass low frequencies it could be too much, not sure how much I should cut, so better not to risk I like having big bass.

Hi there, I have recorded my drums track with a midi plugin. I'm not a drummer and I'm missing a reference track so that I can compare my drums sound with drums samples from some great records. Do you know where I can find only drums tracks from some artist's/ band's record? To compare the sound and make the EQ similar to those? Is it possible to find something like that online? I cannot really compare it all together with bass, guitars and voice. Thanks

I have specified the intent and kind of song, I was just wondering whether there could be some limit, if this is purely subjective fine. I'm new to recording so I just reported what I have read. I'm afraid there could be too much dynamic in a song? I was also wondering what do you do to increase dynamics, if it's just the way it's played in terms of strong/delicate hence " velocity" or a matter of "increasing volume faders where the song should sound louder", because that's what I have done, increase the faders volume of electric punchy guitar parts.

Hi there! I need some tips about the overall song dynamic. I have read that dynamic is important, and that the wave image of the entire song should not be flat but change in volume to increase dynamics. In the song I'm recording I have some clean chilled guitar parts and then some boomy electric guitar parts with powerful drums where the song should explode let's say. So I have kept the clean guitars bus at -8 volume and set the electric guitars bus at -2 volume. Now an interesting point of view of a listener that doesn't know anything about recording, my wife in this case, is that the song pass from a low volume to a higher volume too much, her opinion is that the listener should not have to low down the volume because at a certain point the song gets all of a sudden louder, but should maintain the same volume pretty much. And when playing live for instance you play stronger but is not that you increase the guitar volume from amp, that make sense. So is there a way to understand what would be the right dynamic balance? Like for instance the wave image should increase maximum double or a quarter compared to the clean parts? or something like that?

I guess you also went through first phase of learning before becoming a pro.

Ok well until now I used mono-Right option, with that I can still pan left and right, if I use stereo same thing, if I set it on mono-Left option when I play I don't hear anything, is this correct? is it fine if I set all my guitars in mono-right but then I pan them? I thought that with mono you could not pan the guitars.