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tonyespinoza · 14th July 2008

you guys are killing me!!! :-)

first of all, peeder: how the hell did you recognize my name from 15 years ago at the Newton launch -- or did you read something that made you put 2 and 2 together... PM me with some details. man, i was just a spring chicken software nerd when i worked on that thing. what a mess.

dr. WBM (Weapons of Bad Mastering?). i'm entirely familiar with the elitist golden-eared mastering engineer bullshit. but to be honest having mastered with brian, emily, dave, bernie, etc. i never run into it. it's not until the next tier down (yes, the $50 an hour tier that you live in) that i run into it. which is my problem. i like to work with poor indie bands that make great art. the small labels will pay just about as much as you charge to master a record and frankly most of you guys just don't get the target practice you need with pop to get it to sound like what we're looking for. it takes huge resources to get a room and rig to sound better than what some of us have to mix with these days. sorry -- you asked for it.

yeah - i've been hitting the lavrys pretty hard to get "listen" mixes for approval. i tried a shoot out using inflator and L2 and found i liked the clipped mixes better (sad). when i posted, i was just hoping someone would say, "oh yeah, just throw this in front" -- but i realize now there is no easy answer. or rather, the answer was even easier than that... (just get over the guilt and print...)

thanks mastering folk.

14th July 2008	#17
tonyespinoza Gear maniac Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: san francisco Posts: 268 Thread Starter	you guys are killing me!!! :-) first of all, peeder: how the hell did you recognize my name from 15 years ago at the Newton launch -- or did you read something that made you put 2 and 2 together... PM me with some details. man, i was just a spring chicken software nerd when i worked on that thing. what a mess. dr. WBM (Weapons of Bad Mastering?). i'm entirely familiar with the elitist golden-eared mastering engineer bullshit. but to be honest having mastered with brian, emily, dave, bernie, etc. i never run into it. it's not until the next tier down (yes, the $50 an hour tier that you live in) that i run into it. which is my problem. i like to work with poor indie bands that make great art. the small labels will pay just about as much as you charge to master a record and frankly most of you guys just don't get the target practice you need with pop to get it to sound like what we're looking for. it takes huge resources to get a room and rig to sound better than what some of us have to mix with these days. sorry -- you asked for it. yeah - i've been hitting the lavrys pretty hard to get "listen" mixes for approval. i tried a shoot out using inflator and L2 and found i liked the clipped mixes better (sad). when i posted, i was just hoping someone would say, "oh yeah, just throw this in front" -- but i realize now there is no easy answer. or rather, the answer was even easier than that... (just get over the guilt and print...) thanks mastering folk. __________________ * Tony Espinoza SF SOUNDWORKS [Shhh...]