what do you do after recording your set ?

i am preparing some demos for some radio stations and some club owners . What do you after record your sets ? do you use any compressor or anything else to your sets?
thanks

 

As most of teh tunes are already heavily "mastered" using a compressor is not really a good idea if you want to keep a bit of dynamics in your recording (to me double/triple/multiple compression sounds auwful). what you can do is a bit of Eqing job. You can try to do a "hum removal" Equalization (at 50 or 60 hz depending on the type of power supplied in your country and only if you're recording externally ). And after, just a simple normalization to maximize your volume. I would definitely any kind of compressor/limiter.

 

You could open the file in Audacity (for instance) and apply normalisation if you recorded it a bit quiet, just to give you a nice loud CD.

 

just wondering the same thing - except more specifically - what do people use to break their mix into seperate tracks so that when burned to a cd - a person can skip thru track by track or listen to the whole mix without breaks. know what i mean? just nero or some cheap burning program? wish audacity had taht feature.

 

I use SoundForge for that. In Sound Forge you create Marker (at begining of each track), then you convert marker to region... and then use the Auto-Extract Region.

You can also use whatever editor you have on hand. You just need to split your recording in many different file. Use WAV format, as MP3 encoding may add some mSec of delay at the edge of each file you'll save.

From what I remember of Nero, and ANY CD burning software, you need to use Burn Disc At Once and make sure that it doesn't insert a "standard" 2 secondes delay between tracks.

EDIT: just found that link for Audacity... hth


http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=Splitting_recordings_into_separate_tracks

 

after recording a set, i open myself a beer.

SCNR

in fact, i bring my recording to friends with knowledge, who do a lil bit of mastering... push the "make phat" button etc. to me it's magic, i didnt dive into that things so far.

 

do a smal al amount of EQ'ing, light compression, some adaptive limiting (for levels) - no more than 1-2 dB at each stage, bounce out as wav+mp3 (for online

import wav into Waveburner, cut track markers, burn

Audacity should allow you to drop in markers, then create regions from those markers, then export said regions as separate audio files (forgive me if my terminology within Audacity is off, this is from my Sound Forge days)

 

hey guys thanks for helping with the audacity tip - never knew i could've been doing that all along! psyched to get some indexed mixes done.
all you have to do is:
click where you want to mark a track
go to Project - add label at selection
label it whatever you want to call it - the track name would make most sense
then when you're done all your labels, go to File - export multiple and you can export them all at once

they'll be saved as what you've labelled them and you can add artist name, genre, etc.

thanks guys. sorry if i kinda jacked this thread

 

:lol: I was going to say the exact same thing, but in my case it would be pour a rum.

Anyhow, this is one of the benefits of having my own studio. I record my set in the studio, put mi drops in, in the appropriate places and master it.

 

Two fingers of Macallan, smoke a bit of something good, then back up the WAV file to an external drive. I then take the original copy, hit it with a teensy bit of compression, lop off any dead air on either end, and save that as yet another copy in WAV, and if I feel like putting it in my carputer, I also save a copy as a 320kbps variable MP3.

 

I've discovered that Traktor's internal recording mode gives me the best sounding recordings ever. Even better than using my R-09 with any mixer. My two-set demo, Love & Sex, were recorded with two methods. The Love mix was taken from the output of a DJM mixer and captured from an internet broadcast server. The Sex mix, however, was recorded internally with Traktor, and I used an X-session Pro as my "mixer". I used timecode CD for the control. The resulting effect was two mixes that sounded professionally recorded. Listen to both of them at http://soundcloud.com/romanseoul and compare for yourself!