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I have sophisticated and costly plug-ins. I've treated my room to handle early reflections, and have bass traps in the rear corners. I helped construct a million dollar studio (that immediately went bankrupt), and have been recording more years than I would care to admit. The compression across the 8 bands was a gentle 2:1 with 1 to 3 db compress which is what you might expect from mastering. So I listened closely to the 2 versions, and I had to admit that the AAMS version had a cleaner sounding low end, and that the kick stood out tighter and more clear. However, it did choose a 3.7 boost at 56 Hz and a 4 db cut at 103. For example on my self-mastered song "Always Me", all of the EQ bands consisted of tweaks in the 1 - 2 db +/- range which seemed to indicate that I had generally done a fairly good job, and that AAMS was not going EQ-batsh*t. So I'm kinda blown away I've had this and never gave it a try. Bottom line is that I agreed with what AAMS was showing me as deficiencies in my technique, and that the result sounded better than it did before processing. Once I looked at what it had done to the EQ, I saw that I did have a bit too much low end in some of my tunes, etc. Choosing to use the 50 band EQ and 8 band compression, I fed it a few of my already "mastered" mixes and was very pleased. Listening to what it does against the various "references" it seemed that the "modern.aam" reference worked best for my stuff.
REVIEWS FOR AAMS MASTERING MANUAL
So, anyway, being bored, I read the manual couple times and watched the videos.
REVIEWS FOR AAMS MASTERING HOW TO
I have had AAMS for a number of years but never used it because I didn't understand how to use it. I have gone to great lengths to self-master my various CDs out there in the void. If it was a little cheaper (say 29 US dollars) I might purchase it. I don't remember the 5 minute song length limit so maybe the dev added that. It had some features removed such as batch processing. It was freeware with an honor system of paying if you like it. Curiously, the website explicitly states that "AAMS is windows freeware", perhaps an unintentional leftover from when it was.
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The full version might be more useful, but you'll have to fork over some money to find out. So once again, AAMS, though it looks intriguing, gets uninstalled. You cannot, for example, analyse a single file. There are also more restrictions than I noticed at first. Given that much of my stuff averages around 5 minutes in duration, that makes it unusable.
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It's not a bug, but a limitation of the free version. If you attempt to load a song that's 5 minutes long, the program aborts. The full version is $71.50 and you can demo it.īitflipper After more experimentation, I have to retract my statement that the free version is usable. The free version lacks a few controls (e.g.
REVIEWS FOR AAMS MASTERING SOFTWARE
What's nice about this software is that you don't have to use it to actually do your mastering, but rather to perform an analysis, let it report what it thinks you need to do, and then do it yourself. All in all, perfectly acceptable results, using only default options. The overall song dynamics were preserved and the bass wasn't hyped. The auto-mastered version was a little louder (-14.5 ave. A/Bing the original and AAMS versions, there wasn't a huge difference between them. Like LANDR, you can't specify a LUFS target. The good news is that AAMS chose very subtle changes, which is what you'd hope for on an already-mastered file. Then I was given a report that compared my master against a generic "progressive rock" reference (one of 700 references provided) and multiple reports showing what it had done. When I looked in the folder, it had left me 3 versions of the file: MP3 (192 kb/s), 16-bit and 32-bit. This took awhile, but I now see why. It included a "conversion" step, saying it was converting it to a 32-bit file (from what? I thought.the source file was already 32 bits). I meant to just let it analyzing an existing (gently mastered) file, but inadvertently let AAMS auto-master it instead. A file analysis on a 104 MB 32-bit wave file took about 5 minutes. One downside is that it's still agonizingly slow. There have been many UI improvements since I last looked at it, but it still does not score highly in terms of user-friendliness. Spurred by Mike's post, I've re-downloaded the free version, which is now at version 3. I'd tried this out (version 1) a few years ago, and although I wasn't exactly blown away, I have to say that it gets results at least comparable to LANDR, but with GOBS more helpful information provided. Just wanted to give this thread a bump, since it's apparently been greeted by yawns.
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