Am thinking of doing a mix after many years. Outside of normalising in Audacity or similar, what do you guys do to get the best sound out of your mixes? Remember a guy giving me a mix of his and the bottom end sounded really chunky compared to other mixes handed round at the time (early noughties). He said he re-recorded his sets with the bass on full 😂.

Never normalize, I do a custom master using Izotope Ozone.

    Just used to use traktor software.

    About an hour, I usually do three or four versions.

    Yeah Traktor normally makes a perfect WAV, then I’d convert to 320 in Audacity. Naus around the mixer during the making of the mix determined the quality of the levels.

    Do them on the decks/controller using Traktor then run them back through the AH for better quality.

    All files are converted in iTunes.

      Dan Yeah, iTunes produces a far better mp3 then LAME. It preserves all the high frequencies over 20khz if you’re using lossless source files and the low frequencies aren’t muddy too.

          Record with a Tascam DR 2, 16 bit wav, then normalize in Soundforge, and convert to 320 mp3 on it if it’s longer than 3 hours. If not I’ll save and upload it as 16 but wav.

          sbando Apple’s proprietary version of Fraunhofer. It will say FHG as the ‘encoder’ in the tags of an mp3.

            Haha. As the old saying goes “you can’t polish a turd”

            If possible, spend time practicing your mixes and transitions as much as you can, spend time listening to the tracks, see where they need eqing and trimming, getting it bang on in the mix will do more for it as a whole than any post processing.