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Originally Posted by AMIEL  No thanks God this never happened to me! I try to choose good the Mastering guys I work with.
But I heard from some good friends , Top producers and Engineers that they went to do the mastering with some A+ big boys having big expectations and they felt that the sound could be much better...just because they did what they wanted and not what the producer suggested...and they are not talking about balance they are talking about vibe and character.
One of them wasn't convinced at all about the sound.
So he came back to his studio and he remastered the tracks.
Called then band and in a blind test all the band preferred his mastering that the Big Mastering guy and i am talking one of the top 5 big boys!!
The impresion was that if you are not a Billboard top artist 20 they don't take the project with the same responsability and they don't make the same effort.....they have hundreds of top 100 billboard projects anyway!!
I was happy with Tom Coyne at Sterling sound! nice guy!! |
That's completely untrue. No one would ever return to someone who worked that way, nor refer them business. There's no way they could get the volume of work to be one of the top 5.
Now, one of the things that will happen with all mastereing engineers, and maybe even more with the top 5 is people will as for unrealistic things "Make it sound louder than this album, but with the tone of this other one".
I can do a blind test with a band and get them to choose the poorer sonics every time.
If I were you, I woulnd't believe a story like that unless you'd heard both sides, what the producer says he asked for and what the mastering engineer says he asked for, and then also hear both versions for yourself.
Short of that it's all hearsay, and the story you heard may be as accurate as one that was made up.
Althgouh no one tells stories that are inaccurate in the music business, right? Especaily when it comes to work they've done, like redoing someone's mastering job.
Have you ever heard someone say "I had to re-do the job myself, but my job was worse"?