2- And do you have a specific favorite plugin on your mastering chain? 3- Which plugin or tool would you wanna try next on your mastering chain? Any responds appreciated. I'm diving into mastering this week which I have never done yet besides throwing an Ozone Preset.

I work mostly in hip hop. I’m making new beats to make complete songs with and work toward releasing. I’ve very proud of this composition and I’m content with my mixing skills so far (volume, automation, lite eq) but I feel as though part of my problem might be lowering the instruments to match drums and then feeling drums are too low. And just flip flopping that process. Until my ears are fatigued and I’m just lost sonically. I’m thinking it could also be my eq and balance hearing isn’t all that. But I’m not sure. As for low end and mids, being in hiphop beat making and using 808s HEAVY. I have trouble getting them to come through to hear when I listen on different applications, mostly iPhone speaker and headphones (testing my mix on different applications) I’ll find my 808 is not present and my snares are very. Or I’ll have too much bass and it’s muddy. Trying to achieve that clean balance and not go back and just turn the 808 up and now have just bass. Let me know the good the bad and the ugly. Thanks ✌🏻

So, today I wanted to make a pass at creating a John Bonham inspired digital drum stem that had a semi analog yet dynamic clean harmonics. It's a basic, simple 8 bar 120BPM. I can use some ears on it~ I created with MIDI snippets run through RF-Drum Pads VST - Preset: Rock1. The name of the file is what it is. FileName:MIDI-DRUM-MIX-(-0.7-Db-MAX)-PanR&L-High-Wide-Stereo-ShortReverb-TrebLimited._v1.0.1_2.3.24. Track was mixed with the TRE Philosophy in mind. I produced the MIDI track from blank DAW. Midi track was duplicated. Set in 2 separate tracks. Panned hard R @ L. Gain Staged both tracks @ -13.7. Drum Bus R&L Set to -9.5. Master set to -0.3. Bounced Stereo track per file name : @(-0.7-Db-MAX) confirmed with FreeMeter. Plugins stacked Top to Bottom: kHs Stereo, RichDrums, Raum, Khs Compression, kHs Transient, Free Meter. Adjustments and settings too long to list. I grew up engineering big live shows. So, all this mastering in the box is a huge paradigm shift for me to learn, absorb and apply. Did this work? I have about 60% work and 30% WTF? about 2hrs in to this endeavor. All feedback and input is very much obliged! Does my description fit the narrative? What you experience on your end? Phones, speakers, both? Is my goal accomplished? Need work? Advice? TIA! Baker~ 🏴‍☠️ Love ya'll! 🎼

I love this community I learn so much here and there's so much support for people like me that have a huge passion to do this and have absolutely no idea what I'm doing! I was close to tossing my project out the window and being done with this mixing and mastering journey, I was so frustrated with my Mixes I was about to give up but I sent one to Jake and he loved it (of course he said it needs work. When doesnt it?)! So Im here to stay and hopefully soon Ill release the project Ive been working on for 2 years then my solo work! What I learned is you cant do it all by yourself some times you have to ask for help and community matters! Thanks FTM community truly and maybe one day Ill get into TRE. Thanks to @Berlin RedluX for help with vocals one day ill be a melodyne master too!

Hi, just finishing up a cover version of the blues classic Hoochie Coochie Man - a little different than standard blues but I'm having fun with it. Been a while since I've recorded anything. Would love to hear any feedback on the mix/master. Just added V2 for your kind consideration.