..not necessarily proud of myself, but...my god it worked like a charm.
Today, I came across mastering my new track.
It needs to be LOUD without being (in headroom-sense), LOUD.
What I did was I downloaded this VST that many masters use: the Voxengo Elephant. It's job is to compress just about everything up to a loudness quality that's only matched up using it's tool (or some super expensive virtual studio mashugana). The demo version of this leaves gaps of silence every-so-often- across the track. What I realized was this was at total RANDOM.
So I exported TWO versions of the track, both at different times. Sure enough, the awesome VST left voids of sounds in different parts of the track. The glory of it? They were in different spots in the tracks. So I took both tracks and pasted over where the clips of silence were with the OTHER track.
Man, I feel dirty. Now, though, I know I can use the VST at my discretion and for free! There's no way I'm paying 200-so-odd bucks if I already got away with a free copy of Live 8.
...even if it only lasts for a while more. I'm cheap, yes.
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