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Tonal balance control for mixing or mastering how to#

Since using it, I've gotten so much better, so much faster at recognizing problems with my balance and how to fix it. I would use an EQ to correct the tonal balance and learn what the balance should sound like. I learned that I have a tendency to make things overly bright and lacking in the low mids. I used tonal balance control and immediately learned why some mixes were translating better than others and why others weren't at all. Even when I got to know my speakers.Īnd that is because my ears weren't strong enough yet. I referenced other songs constantly and worked really hard on my mixes for a long time and it seemed every single time the mixes wouldn't translate when they went into other places. In fact the plugin helps quite a bit with training your ears. But perhaps this method will help someone else.

Tonal balance control for mixing or mastering trial#

So before the trial ended, I figured out this alternative. I downloaded a trial of Tonal Balance Control a while back and built a reliance on it. Here's a picture of what this looks like compared to TBC. You can also play with the other settings to make the curves smoother or change the speed of the response. You can move the fader on the white noise track, but the easier thing to do is go to Span's settings and change Offset to "Center." It should align the curves. You should see your mix and the noise curve overlayed. To do this, change the Underlay to G-2 and then go to routing and change E and F under "Group Assignments" to G-2. and configure it to display channels 3/4 as an overlay.

Change the master send on the Noise track to go to channels 3/4 on the master track (or whatever channels you aren't using so that it is by itself).

Then put a JS Spectrum Analyzer on that track and another on your master.

Turn off the Master Send on the noise track so you don't have to listen to it.

Step 4: Put it to use and analyze your mix against it. I did this and then I used Tonal Balance Control to create a reference curve based on the reference file and it resulted in a near-identical curve. The white noise should be shaped into the frequency response of the sampled reference.

Hold Control and drag up the curve to bring the volume up.

Drag over the same ReaFir plugin from your reference track.

Tonal balance control for mixing or mastering generator#

Create a new, empty track and place the JS White Noise Generator Plugin on it.

Step 3: Use ReaFir to carve white noise into that curve.

After just a couple seconds, turn it off.

Play a key part of the song that represents the tonal balance you'd like to reference and check the "Automatically Build Noise Profile" box for ReaFir to draw a curve based on the peaks of the audio.

Place ReaFir on the channel with your reference.

Step 2: Use ReaFir to analyze the tonal balance of that reference track. You can also setup a loopback input to run spotify through your daw, however Spotify's curve will be severely misleading unless you have it on the paid high-quality setting.

You can use JS Spectrum analyzer, or preferabley Voxengo Span, which is free.

Izotope's tonal balance control allows you to check the tonal balance of your mix to the tonal balance curve or a reference or a few built in target curves created by Izotope based on thousands of references.