HoztileManikyn wrote: I do use Sausage fattener with my mastering.
wh...why? you shouldnt do that, you know?
why on the master? you have no control with it, it saturates the sound, and takes away from it. Like I get using it on a channel, but whywhywhy the master?
You dont need two maximuses either, there is no way you need to compress an already compressed signal. Just do a proper job of it in the first one to begin with.
You should put these things on your sounds, to saturate and colour them, in order to make a more intresting soundimage. You want your sounds to be like people Sounds , Give them different characters, and let them tell you about themselves. I.e. use the same sound for different tasks.
Listening to it, your composition isnt too bad, its a bit repetive, and it never lets up for a break which I feel it sorely needs. But its not a bad song, as the song itself seems to go.
But the main problem lies in that sounds are so compressed and destroyed (in a bad way) that I lose enjoyment in it. You're lacking like your entire midrange frequency space!
Theres no shame in not doing mastering when you're starting up, you know?
Your basses seem to be a bit everywhere, and they dont seem to be in key with the rest of the song either.
My biggest complaint is with the drums, which are complettely drowned out, and the kick seems to have some reverb effect, althought it wouldnt surprise me if you didnt put any on, and the master channel did this to it.
I would normally suggest to learn sidechaining for the kick, and use it on a few on the elements, to let the mix breathe a little, but theres no way to know if you did this or not, since the track is compressed to death, so any sidechaining would have come undone anyways.
I'm really not trying to put you down here, since as I mentioned, I think I like the baseidea for the song, but the mix and the master needs to be complettely redone, I would think.