and by that i mean adding a brickwall to it to make it authentic to the 2006 hard trance experience x3
I don't usually like brickwalling my stuff for a number of reasons, one of them me being a strong opponent against the loudness war, other me having some sort of autistic audio processing stuff going on (mostly when for example modern "breakcore" producers highpass-eq their breakbeats too much).
But I felt like since this song is pretty much my attempt at making mid to late 2000s hardtrance, that this kind of mastering and mixing was necessary lol.
I didn't just brickwall it tho, i also carefully changed stuff in this song like some eq filtering, some changes in the overall mixing, and even a few instrument changes at the last part. so it's less of just a remaster and more of an actual new mix of the song i guess
I'm trying to learn a lot of this mastering and mixing stuff. A lot of it is still kinda new to me, and a lot of it can be quite subjective as hell I feel. Like some people like music to be brickwalled, others want it to be clean and dynamic.
I hope I can eventually decide how I want my music to sound and feel like in a definitive way.