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apyssjw Congratulation on the album. šŸ˜€
Really enjoyed that. I imagine Mr Lieb enjoyed mastering it as well.

      Henry

      mono-stereo

      Cheers both. Definitely think its my best / most interesting. Am laying the groundwork for the next one - no doubt coming 2025 at the earliest šŸ™‚

            apyssjw I hope youā€™re proud of the album, itā€™s really well done. I enjoyed the breaks, the leads are cool, itā€™s all put together very nicely.

                apyssjw That seems like good value. What are the main differences you notice after mastering?

                    apyssjw ā€¦congrats man, no mean feat getting an albumā€™s worth of material together.

                    Liking the intricate perc on ā€˜Dimensions..ā€™ and ā€˜High Hyper Sonicā€™ā€¦ good work!

                        Unbroken1 Thanks. Really enjoy working with breakbeats and feel Iā€™ve made a lot of progress in the last few years. ā€˜Dimensionsā€¦ā€™ beats are predominantly cut up audio samples, whereas ā€˜High Hyper Sonicā€™ is midi based (albeit with the patterns pulled from samples). šŸ™‚

                          mono-stereo I ask the mastering engineer to tell me whats he thinks needs correcting before they do their job. You hope you are getting better when there are less and less requested amends.

                          The your confident you can ask for a specific character for the master. Thereā€™s a little blurb on it here

                          https://begin.lhaudio.com/mastering

                          You do sometimes hear elements which you didnā€™t actively hear post master which you then want to either remove or drop in the mix.

                          Probably the most positive difference, for my ear, is a widening of the stereo spread.

                            14 days later

                            All my factory pack files are missing in Ableton - theyā€™re listed in the collection element on the left hand side, but says ā€œThe file could not be read. It may be corrupt or not licensedā€. Iā€™ve re-authorised at Ableton.com, but that didnā€™t work. Everything worked fine a little while ago, Iā€™m currently working on a project with files from the factory pack like 909 Core Kit (and they all work fine), but it wonā€™t let me start a new track with the 909 Core Kit, or anything else. Iā€™ve sent a ticket to Ableton, but if anyone has any ideas, Iā€™d appreciate it. Really annoyed.

                              5 days later
                              2 months later

                              Evening all, I did a little remix of Bonny by Prefab Sprout recently, itā€™s a private link on SC, but Iā€™ve enabled the D/L
                              link for those that are into it šŸ™‚

                              Gav.

                              https://on.soundcloud.com/Ae98k

                              apyssjw

                              Snag the Focusrite FAST Reveal/Bundle instead. Itā€™s more expensive than TrackSpacer, but itā€™s easier to use and does a better job. You can rent to own them over a year.

                              Focusrite Balancer has taken up all of my sidechain processing duties for me and allows things to breathe properly in the mix because it only ducks the offending frequencies of what youā€™re sidechaining it from.

                                  loopdokter Iā€™ve had trackspacer since the turn of the year. Does exactly what it says on the tin, only criticism is that itā€™s a bit resource heavy. Can believe other bits do just as good if not better job.

                                  What, if anything, have people got their eye on for black Friday etc?

                                      Iā€™ll watch for the ableton sale, may upgrade to 11 finally. Looking at morph 2 maybe, but I canā€™t say thereā€™s too much I need for plugins. Synplant 2 looks really interesting, I just canā€™t justify spending that much for something I donā€™t really need.