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84K · 28th November 2005

Let me start by saying, I am no dance or hip hop ninja or protégé.

Recently, I mastered a rap album for a friend as a favour. Apparently, it has been getting rave reviews in some indie hip hop mags and props from others in that field. I attribute that more to the performances and the mixes then my work, but I did make it way louder and added nice compression. I used the Thermionic Culture Phoenix for the compression on the 2 buss, then Pultec EQP-1s for the EQ followed by the Waves MaxxBCL for that extra

. It worked out very nice. I was told that DJ's comment on how it is the loudest track going right now. Makes me laugh

... but really, 99.99999% was already there when I got it. But long story short, I liked the Thermionic Culture Phoenix for gluing that gig together.

28th November 2005	#24
84K Lives for gear Joined: Oct 2004 Location: right coast Posts: 3,857	Let me start by saying, I am no dance or hip hop ninja or protégé. Recently, I mastered a rap album for a friend as a favour. Apparently, it has been getting rave reviews in some indie hip hop mags and props from others in that field. I attribute that more to the performances and the mixes then my work, but I did make it way louder and added nice compression. I used the Thermionic Culture Phoenix for the compression on the 2 buss, then Pultec EQP-1s for the EQ followed by the Waves MaxxBCL for that extra . It worked out very nice. I was told that DJ's comment on how it is the loudest track going right now. Makes me laugh ... but really, 99.99999% was already there when I got it. But long story short, I liked the Thermionic Culture Phoenix for gluing that gig together.