(Pseudo) Mastering for the first time!

[Mea_Culpa89]

Hello, i was asked to master a Full-Length CD, and even though i have pseudo-mastered several times stuff from my band, it is the first time i decided to do some more drastic changes during the mastering process. I do not consider myself a Mastering Engineer, and i do it for free, but hopefully i can do something good.

Here is the unmastered stuff:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8685282/UnmastSample.mp3

Tried to bring up the guitars a bit, tighten the low end and excite the treble a bit. Unfortunately, as you may notice, the unmastered is already HOT, so there was little headroom for me to work on.

And here is the mastered stuff:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8685282/MastSample.mp3

Haven't tried to have a listen to other speakers, so what do you think? Would you approach something in a different way? (i hope the 15 sec samples is enough for most of you)

 

[Mea_Culpa89]

Bump!

 

[RaNk]

The mastering you did worked for me. The mix (which didn't need any 'crazy fixing anyways') got clearer and punchier with a nice amount of loudness added. I like it, also seems to be a nice song you have there. Nice job.