Yeah this is interesting to consider. I definitely don't want it to sound like the exampleKind of leaning this way here too. It's a 'very 2024' master to my ears, for better or worse. Dance music seems to be having an incredibly toasty phase right now. Maybe as all the OTT-wielding Youtube tutorial kids are coming of age?The mastering is fine. Others are over exaggerating.
So yeah, it'll sound awful in most clubs, but it seems to be the nature of the beast at the moment. It doesn't sound a million miles away from, say, this track released on Warp Records this year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxH-nDWlrio
edit: Obviously, though I do think what you've got is within (albeit stretching) the bounds of normal, that doesn't really matter if you aren't happy with the result. You'll be a better judge of what your specific genre should sound like in 2024 than I am.
As someone said above, I want it to sound funky. Sure there's an element of loudness and 'bigness' to it, but I don't want it to be squashed and overcompressed haha. This is all good feedback I can give him, so thanks again!I'll see how I go with working with him to improve it, but otherwise I may have to take up one of the responses and get it mastered for free.
Statistics: Posted by camheine — Thu Aug 29, 2024 12:52 am