Mastering
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hey , check this http://www.izotope.com/products/audio/ozone/guides.html look for the ozone mastering guide , very helpfull if your new into mastering
Fix things that weren't good in the mix if the mix can't be changed. Otherwise, eq compress and limit are the things I do pretty much all the time. Just try to make the songs on the record to fit together as good as possible.
kryckan said:
In its simplest form, that's it, but I think a lot of people minimize the effect, or impact a pro mastering job can have on a mix. I'm releasing an instrumental Metal/Hard Rock/Other weird stuff disc this year and am hoping to have Eddy Schreyer (if I can afford it) or somebody in that league master it, just because I believe pro mastering can kick the album up a notch, so to speak.
By the way, if anybody has a lead to somebody in Eddy's league who would do a package deal for a self produced disc (11 tunes, 45 minutes), preferrably in the L.A. area, I would appreciate it, just in case I can't afford Eddy.
unsilpauly
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if you are willing to send it to someone outside california, i would check out peerless mastering in boston. jeff lipton is super cool and has an "indy" rate. also west westside mastering is top notch. alan and his crew there are super good and not super expensive. just tell them your budget and im sure they will try to work something out. anyway west westside has done stuff for alot of bands (shadows fall, etc.) check them out.Bob Savage said:
unsilpauly said:
If I could have complete confidence in the quality of the job, I actually don't have a problem sending it off. I would like myself and the mixing engineer to attend the mastering session, but I'm already over budget, and $300 an hour for 4-6 hours as well as other fee's is a lot of dough for me at this point (that's another L.A. engineer's rate, I haven't heard back from Eddy yet).
Do you have links to websites for Peerless and Westside?
Thanks bud...
unsilpauly
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they really are super good and very reasonable. i had an album mastered by them a few years back, 9 songs and it was around 400 bucks give or take. super good for the money. i also have a friend from my town who works there. they are cool people there.Bob Savage said:
unsilpauly said:
I'll definitely keep them on the list, particularly West Westside. The dummy that I am, I had forgotten that the mixing engineer has worked closely with Sterling Sound for years, and can most likely get a good package deal there (hopefully with George Marino). Doh!
Glenn Fricker
Very Metal &Very Bad News
It really depends on the band's budget. If they don't have much to spend, I'll take a crack at it, usually with the SS levelizer, which IMHO, is the cleanest limiting plug I've come across.... Namely because it doesn't flat-top a signal, but intelligently turns the peaks down.
Here's a cool video on it: http://www.sawstudio-media.com/video/levelizer.wmv
If the band can afford it, I'll go out-of-house to Lacquer Channel mastering in Toronto. This place has a great history and some truly legendary records have had the finishing touches put on there.... most notably, Rush's 2112! That, and Phil Demetro is a great guy to work with, and an old-school headbanger as well. He definitley 'gets' the heavy stuff.
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Here's a cool video on it: http://www.sawstudio-media.com/video/levelizer.wmv
If the band can afford it, I'll go out-of-house to Lacquer Channel mastering in Toronto. This place has a great history and some truly legendary records have had the finishing touches put on there.... most notably, Rush's 2112! That, and Phil Demetro is a great guy to work with, and an old-school headbanger as well. He definitley 'gets' the heavy stuff.
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If sitting in the session isn't a necessity, I'd recommend Brian Lucey at Magic Garden Mastering , Brad Blackwood at Euphonic Masters , The Cutting Room , Massive Mastering , or Finnvox Mastering .
Email these guys with your specific questions and budget, and see what they can do for you. They're all excellent.
Email these guys with your specific questions and budget, and see what they can do for you. They're all excellent.
sorceron
ken
I need to find someone to master an ep i am working on as well. time to start looking inside some cd's i like the mastering on.
So Andy, do you have any mastering houses that you would recommend for a lower budget project? I figure I should weigh all my options, because even at a "friend" deal, Sterling just might be too much for me.
Exsangius, thanks for the additional leads. I haven't looked at them all, but I like what I see at the Magic Garden site.
Exsangius, thanks for the additional leads. I haven't looked at them all, but I like what I see at the Magic Garden site.
Kenny Lee
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