OK folks the time has come for me to drop a track so I can be raked over the coals. This is my solo project Ashes In the Delta's 2nd upcoming single I played all instruments and mixed and mastered and My best friend and heterolife mate is the vocalist. Let me know if you think it's launch ready. Also let me know if it's absolute garbage. I love this community and trust you.

Hello everyone. I'm in the middle of a project that is ultimately an audiobook with songs dropped in. It is a recording of a musical my wife and I wrote. It is complete with dialogue, narration and songs. My question is how to approach the final product. I'm guessing that if I put all the spoken word and songs in my mastering suite and set all the mastering chains and decisions to make the songs sound great, it may mess up the audio dialogue and vice versa. The show has a dozen songs and 36 minutes of dialogue. How would you approach mastering this and putting it together as one file?

I've been exploring how to reduce breath noise when recording wind instruments (alto, tenor and bass recorders) and I reckon this would work pretty well for vocals too. It uses a combination of Waves DeBreath and phase inversion. Basically the process is to: - Run 2 Waves DeBreaths in series to capture the majority of noise - Use the Breath switches on DeBreath to only let the residual breath noise through - Use Utility to invert the phase and record the residual noise onto a new track - Export the residual noise track as a normalised mono track (matching the original recording) then import it back again - Cancel phase change on Utility so the original recording plays in normal phase - Play the original recording and the inverted residual noise track in together - Adjust the gain on the residual noise track down until you reach an optimal noise reduction point I've annotated a screenshot of Ableton to help. I'm no singer so let me know if this process works well for vocals. Any other tips on how you deal with breath noise (apart from not breathing!) would be much appreciated. Thanks Rob

I posted this on the Reverse Engineer community site but thought the Fix-the-Mix community might also enjoy that I have a couple of new releases. The first, Between Us, is an EP of 6 pop songs that I wrote, performed, produced, mixed and mastered. The second, Moonlit Dreams, is a collaboration with Ken Matsuda, under the name Soniq Mirage, of 4 pop songs that together we wrote, performed, produced, mixed and mastered. The Spotify links are here: https://open.spotify.com/album/0cY8FmzWf9MmJP4ThGtU6A?si=c91e62b9ae384b15 https://open.spotify.com/album/26y1SDKDklCDG7nSEc0eVH?si=kdXjLMw6RtaKJKb2grCPHA I hope you enjoy them. I'd also like to thank the Mastering.com team for all the training and mentoring that went into being able to create these works! They would not have been possible (or at least not as good) without all your help.

Hey fam! What’s the one thing you do to make sure your music hits that professional level? Whether it's mixing, mastering, or production tricks, I’d love to hear what works for you! Let’s share some knowledge! 🔥🎶