Where is the best place to get mastering done (1 Viewer)

[stephenoblunt]

Trend are offering E100 for three hours of mastering for an album.

Other places like proper studios seem to be offering around E600 for a day for an album.

Our band is quite heavy and we've found that people who aren't used to recording or mixing heavy music make a balls of it even though they're amazing at straight forward rock or whatever. Is it the same with Mastering. If somone is used to mastering singer/songwriters will they be unable to give heavy stuff a good sound, or is that irrelevant in mastering?

We obviously want it to sound great, but is there any point in spending more on something that somebody isn't going to able to make sound much better??

 

[steveamanakick]

how many songs are there, or how long is the album even?

 

[egg_]

I recommend Svante Forsback in chartmakers in Finland. Did a great job for us, not particularly cheap (album for €800 plus vat, charges by the job rather than the hour) but very good value for how good he is
http://www.chartmakers.fi/

Wouldn't bother with Trend, 3 hours to master an album is very scanty and I don't know who's working there, if it's just some employee of theirs rather than a specialist you're wasting your money

What the person is used to isn't really that relevant with mastering, also a mastering enginer is likely to have worked on a much wider range of stuff than a regular audio engineer (their job takes less time, so they get through more stuff)

 

[stephenoblunt]

Cheers.

It's a ten track album, about 40 minutes long.

 

[windings]

Cheers.

It's a ten track album, about 40 minutes long.

pm'd you there

 

[#10-7]

just got four tracks mastered with Fergal Davies in Suite studios.

really good price, really good job.
i can pass on the number if ye like.
he's based near baggot street in dublin...

 

[stephenoblunt]

Thanks for all the help guys.

 

[MeMyselfI]

Trend are offering E100 for three hours of mastering for an album.

maybe its too late but...

Want to press up 1000 cds including inlays and quality is extremely important.

Trend will master a couple of trax FREE before you commit. no strings. they make CDs so they know excatly what's needed. they use SADIE, latest version, abbey road, Bob Clearmountian, yeah, yeh, yeah - they all use SADIE
Engineers are Ger and Gar, Ger has been there for years does work for emi, rubyworks, sony, so on, so on - Gar is young, in a band knows what aband needs.
They have a free CD on mastering, give thma a call. they send it out.
They'll tell you what worx, what doesn't work. Big thing is they manufacture CD,s ask them to show you how its done, guided tour and all! they're not a one-man home operation who cant afford a remake if there's a problem, but they're not a huge mutlinational who doesn't give a toss. the boss is there every day if you really have a problem. COLGATE RING OF CONFIDENCE - that's what I call 'em, they made a FEW CDs for me!

 

[Eddie Gorilla]

Could you possibly be any more employed by Trend?
Jesus Christ.