Soundcloud's digital mastering option--how can I do that on my own?
Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2022 10:53 am
To be honest, many times the "mastered" sample Soundcloud offers does in fact sound a lot better than what my .wav sounds like as uploaded.
Is it realistic for me to try to learn how to do that on my own? Is soundcloud just doing some simple equalizer tricks for example?
Or is it doing something more sophisticated that I shouldn't expect to be able to figure out how to do without years of experience?
Or something in between?
If it's learnable by a beginner, can you describe some specific things you'd say soundcloud is doing when it "masters" a track?
(What I often like better about the mastered sound they offer is, it's got that ineffable quality of sounding "really there" whereas my original--even though I thought it was fine before hearing the remaster!--tends to sound a tiny bit "behind a wall" or "underwater".)
Appreciate any insights. It may look like I'm asking for a crash course in the entire field of sound engineering, but if that's what it honestly requires to do what souncloud is doing, I'm happy to learn that and shrug my shoulders and move on. I'm just hoping, though, that it turns out they're doing some cheap easy tricks a new person can realistically learn. Or something in that direction.
Is it realistic for me to try to learn how to do that on my own? Is soundcloud just doing some simple equalizer tricks for example?
Or is it doing something more sophisticated that I shouldn't expect to be able to figure out how to do without years of experience?
Or something in between?
If it's learnable by a beginner, can you describe some specific things you'd say soundcloud is doing when it "masters" a track?
(What I often like better about the mastered sound they offer is, it's got that ineffable quality of sounding "really there" whereas my original--even though I thought it was fine before hearing the remaster!--tends to sound a tiny bit "behind a wall" or "underwater".)
Appreciate any insights. It may look like I'm asking for a crash course in the entire field of sound engineering, but if that's what it honestly requires to do what souncloud is doing, I'm happy to learn that and shrug my shoulders and move on. I'm just hoping, though, that it turns out they're doing some cheap easy tricks a new person can realistically learn. Or something in that direction.