Mastering (1 Viewer)

[brianoak]

If I have two tracks recorded and roughly mixed in pro tools who do I go to to get it mastered?

Also approximate cost etc would be great

 

[clonan attack]

i could put you in touch with a bunch of people in final year of audio college degree courses who'd prob do it for free!
and don't say "pfff students" well do if ya want, but consider the gesture unoffered if ya do

 

[egg_]

If you have something only roughly mixed, why would you want to get it mastered?

 

[snakybus]

I mastered our last release, a Christmas single. It wasn't that hard. I dunno how good it sounds but I played it beside some other songs and it seemed to sound okay.

 

[Pantone247]

I mastered our last release, a Christmas single. It wasn't that hard. I dunno how good it sounds but I played it beside some other songs and it seemed to sound okay.

I 'master' stuff at home too, which is obviously a not really mastering in the strictist possible sense, but I can get a good level, clean it up a little here and there and slap it on out there

student thing sounds good, in so far as the worst that can happen is you get someone else to master it... best is you get a free mastering job

 

[hugh]

Ask Dano Barry to do it

 

[Charlie Bucket]

I dunno how good it sounds but I played it beside some other songs and it seemed to sound okay.

long live lo-fi "shure it'll be grand!"

 

[Dude no.7]

the basics of mastering should see a good tune through....

hiss reduction, normalisation and compression (but not too much, rms is evil if overused)

i tend to take out some hiss, then normalise, then compress (using a soft compression, gently reducing high volumes) and then re-normalise.... often there are a couple of rogue peaks that can be soften by zooming in and reducing them in a subtle fashion.... soundforge or wavlab do these jobs efficiently...

 

[Pantone247]

I use a stereo enhancer do-hicky to widen things out a little, it does amazing things with panned reverby elemets, really pulls them out of the mix...

"oh no, it won't sound good in mono!"

dude, it don't sound good anyway...

also a multiband compressor to try and get the bass and high end working across a few different headphones, speakers, different things like that and then..eh.. I think it's the ruby sound limiter set to soft overdrive too make up the level to around -6 on the peaks... eeeeehhhhh....

 

[snakybus]

long live lo-fi "shure it'll be grand!"

well ask egg how it sounds then

I think I did a pretty good job

egg, how does it sound?

 

[Pantone247]

egg sent me this pm around them

egg
...and you should hear the botch job Mike did of the mastering... ...it's totally ruined it, has that man got empty crisp packets for ears... ...we should've got you to do it cause you are the best at everything... ...I don't care what you say Pantone, or how clever and handsome you are, this time I going to kick that guys ass...

 

[Wilbert]

well ask egg how it sounds then

I think I did a pretty good job

egg, how does it sound?

Mike sets himself up for a fall!

 

[snakybus]

ha ha screw both you guys

I'm great at the mastering I am

 

[Wilbert]

ha ha screw both you guys

I'm great at the mastering I am

You the mastering-master.

 

[Pantone247]

I'm great at the masterbating I am

jesus Mike... talk about taking the DIY ethic a bit too far...

*canned laughter*

 

[snakybus]

Sound forge, is there anything it can't do?

 

[egg_]

egg, how does it sound?

I think it sounds deadly

 

[Wilbert]

ha ha screw both you guys

I'm great at the mastering I am

When I think of the money we spent mastering the first Settler album I get
then i lie down for a while and I feel
There's no escape!

 

[egg_]

We spent a grand getting the Stoat album mastered and I'd spend that again in a flash cos the guy did a great job. For a quickie single I wouldn't bother though

 

[snakybus]

I only charge about half that