Hello, all! I have been away from this forum and mixing in particular for various reasons. one of them was moving my music related files, programs and plugins to a new PC. While most of this was easier than I thought, some quirks popped up. 1: Downloading installation files. Should all these files be in a specific folder. If yes, where: on OS, E (SSD) or D (regular drive)? 2: Extracting files: same as above? 3: Product Portals: s.a.? 4: VST3: should those files be in the same folder as the DAW (Studio One)? 5: DAW: on OS, E or D? I should say that right now everything works, but the files seem to be all over the place and I don't really favour that, but does it really matter? Next, and this is really bothering me: I have a few unfinished pieces and I use NEUTRON ELEMENTS with these songs. As it is, I am unable to install this EQ on the new PC. It does not even show up in the IZOTOPE Product Portal. I spent weeks with them to have this fixed. (I downloaded this plugin from Presonus a long time ago, when it was part of a Studio one offer) You may say: just use a different EQ, and I probably will. But it is the principle of not being able to retrieve the plugins that are mine, plus the headaches of communicating with IZOTOPE, who don't offer a real solution at this time. Now that they combined with NATIVE INSTRUMENTS , logging in has also become a major issue. I had to redo passwords for no apparent reason. I purchased OZON 10 from NI. While it is visible in their Product Portal, it does not show on IZOTOPE'S. It seems like a problem right now since they are busy transitioning. So I am wondering if you encountered similar issues and what do you suggest I should do in terms of file storing? Thanks for reading this lengthy array of words....🥴

Watched the mastering video. Noticed the MAAT meter. Is there an alternative you can think of? It seems a bit complicated..?🤓

Hey everyone, I'd seriously appreciate if any of you could give me some advice on matching loudness for different songs on the same album. I've been mixing and mastering an album for the first time for a close friend/collaborator and while the songs all sound solid individually, we've found that they have different perceived loudness. Here is a folder with the single version masters, but I'm about to do a remaster for the album that's dropping in a couple of weeks. Wanting to get everything nice and consistent without compromising quality at all. Any advice? Here are the LUF readings for the different tracks. I know they don't all have to be exactly the same, but I'd like to get them closer. Lovely Lies -10.3 Breakaway -9.7 Blessings -8.7 Steppin On Love -6 Lovely -7.6 Pressure -10.3 Trippin Alright -6.4 Wave Chasin -9 Outta Sight -8.1 https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/10Cxzt1yFKUwBUOW9BCvRpJfCR_huU0Qb

Hey there! Still not sure if this was a thing, if they decided to do a mixing challenge instead, or both but didn't have prices for both... still confused. The download link on the EVENTS site clearly said: "Download the guitar and vocal tracks for the production challenge". Whatever, started to make my own track with Lucy's enchanting "Moonchild" vocals. Don't think it's finished yet: still some things to do production wise (some weird notes on the bass f.e., cause I was puzzled by one of the guitar chords, snare sound is not the best one, etc.), still many things to do mixing wise, I guess. Not sure what genre it is, has some synthpop vibes in the second half. Having realized that there was no "production challenge" (or was there?) I finished the song without aiming for "perfect" or "masterpiece" but for a decent (sounding) track, cause I really liked what I had so far. Had some technical issues, didn't find the exact sounds I was looking for, whatever... let's call it a "demo version". Mostly used the provided "demo tracks" (vocals and guitar/organ), only added some of the additional vocals at the end (without much processing). ------ LONG STORY SHORT: If anybody wants to take a listen the song (it's quite different from Dane's version, but as I said: I really like it) HERE'S THE LINK TO MY MOONCHILD VERSION: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UzP4j_9qpjSkEc_BdOqW3GRxfIkY_mpG/view?usp=sharing ====== If somebody else made this "mistake" and produced their own version OR feels inspired to make his own song version now, after the show - feel free to add a link here in the comments! ;) =======

Hello family. I just got done building my new monster machine. It's an AMD Ryzen9 5950X CPU, Asus X570-E gaming WiFi motherboard, 64 GB Corsair Vengeance 3200 MHz RAM, 2 1TB NVME Samsung 990 Evo SSD's, XFX RX 580 8GB GPU and Thermalright 750 watt power supply. It's running Windows 11 Pro, DaVinci Resolve and Reaper DAW. It's all mounted in a 4U rack mount chassis. So far I have about $1000 in this system in all. What are your thoughts on this system. What would you do differently and why?