audio mastering
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- quamb
was wondering if any of you guys has released a cd- and if you got it mastered?
have no money and *think* we'll be able to master okay...
though things such as airplay and cheap stereos could throw it all outa wak..?
- combustion0
Yo man, mastering takes a lot of time to do
It's the most bitchin' thing.
You have to spend a lot of time on each layer and sound to make it perfect. U don't need to make that if u are doing fast things. But there is a lot of equipments and softwares to do that.See if this can help u:
http://www.propellerheads.se/hom…It's a simple way to mastering
- JazX0
If I were you I would read up on what Computer Music UK has to say about it. I've studied this many hours and each track for each song can have different settings. It's a very tricky thing to perfect. Audio Mastering is a bitch. You will really want to start reading about 'levels' and 'compression'. http://www.computermusic.co.uk that was sorta' my point about how most professional artists make something and then it goes to a bigtime studio to get mastered. ;)
- autonoma0
Mastering is honestly the last step of the recording process that you should skimp on. It's so important to the sound of a record. It's a total exact science.
I would never suggest doing it yourself. Spend the money and get it done right.
- quamb0
cheers guys.
have been producing for years now- though never had to spend the money to master myself.
hence thought- perhaps i could pull it off here and save money.
though on the other hand its wat autonoma said that makes me so hesitant- its an exact science that people have specific careers based around on.
oh well... 80% sure will spend the cash. hmm.
- bedenken0
I recently built a mastering studio with my friend J in Halifax, Canada. The equipment is valued at $50K CDN.
Early Pics: (site to come later)
http://www.thearchive.ca/archive…
- combustion0
Very nice studio bro!
- loudubs0
best way to master the audio is to master the audio
- surfito0
theres a very good program for mastering called t-racks, try that.
- bedenken0
More info...
- TResudek0
Personally, I have used T-Racks and after messing around for a while I found it to be really helpful. By no means is any step of recording (including playing the parts) easy or shoudl it be done by someone incompetent but if you have to choose between mastering it yourself or not mastering it at all, go with T-Racks and just use trial-and-error to get a good output. Be careful not to overcompress or overdrive it!
- quamb0
think am going to have to fork out the money- been listening to around on various stereos and man can some songs sound muddy.
- chimchim0
got my CD mastered on a sonic solutions system....didn't make much of a difference..we had so much crap from somewhere in the pipeline..did analog transfer from 16 track 1/2 inch to DAT..into Sonic...
at the time I offered to "trade" scsi hard drives for mastering time.
- quamb0
hoping to find some place decent to do this- as also have heard 'mastered' cd's that only may be slightly louder.
- JazX0
surfito is right, for low budget t-racks is a good tool, at least I have read.
- monkeyshine0
No serious musician or producer I know would consider skipping the mastering process...if you even have to ask if its relevant then that in itself answers your question. YES.
Mastering is both a science and an art. I know some kick ass sound engineers and, though they are great at what they do, even they value the necessity of mastering.
If you are doing a low budget project, then you can get away without it if you have a great engineer but if you are doing a professional project, you wouldn't consider not mastering.
- quamb0
was asking if any one had done it before.... hoping for some 'i did and x happened' so i can psyche myself up for spending the cash.
in no way was considering skipping the process.
thats all.
- monkeyshine0
I've been involved in the process 2x and the first was a project that was mastered by this great guy at Sony in NYC but the engineer on the project didn't really do a great job so it was a a little futile and ultimately expensive to fix stuff in mastering. The second project was done at a place called Northeastern Digital and it was seamless...if the engineer is good, it will make mastering easy.