So Bad  -  Post 4

FINISH

I adopted basically the exact same process I used for “I’m A Blind Man”. Using the Ozone Dynamic EQ to hold the low end a little tighter: A 2:1 ratio in the 20Hz-200Hz with the threshold so that the hard hits during the last chorus don’t pulsate my limiter in the later stages of mastering. 

I also added an additional 2dB EQ boost at 1.2kHz and a steep LPF in the 19kHz area. I found that 1.2kHz frequency wasn’t casing a resonance and a little extra of it added a shine to the mix. I used the LPF to clear some of the incomprehensible information that isn’t really necessary in this mix. 

Next on my master chain was an Ozone exciter. The side channels had a high-mid frequency band with a tape algorithm inserted. The tape adds a warmer distortion to that of digital harmonic distortion. And in the mid channel I used the same tape distortion but in the low-mids, which created a warm and toasty cocktail of bass, guitar and vocals. 

I set my true peak limiter ceiling to -1 to help prevent inter-sample peaks distorting the track when/if its subject to data compression. Then I started to up my threshold to start closing boosting my LUFS and set a comfortable dynamic range. 

Final bounce is a -12LUFS 24bit/44.1WAV file.