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maxiemixer · 10th March 2010

In MHO there is really no strict need for mastering for the CD format BUT, A really good mastering engineer will be a fresh pair of good ears and will help to make your work shine. Of course you can master yourself but then if you plan to do it, just do it during the mixdown... Anyway if I have adequate budget for mastering I tend to use a ME that I trust. And almost every time I get something I like AND a more reassuring feeling that I did my job well since I get usually a lot of compliments from ME. Almost all the times they say that did "nothing" and the balance was "perfect" but still I hear some subtle changes in definition, level and 3rd dimesion that I've been not able to fully recreate in my studio... And I love to have a great ME tweak with my work.
But I've been doing gret "damage" with MS processing especially with BX-DIGITAL eq.... But I hope two things:
1. The level war (and every war) to stop!
2. The DVD music format get in use so we can move to a more refined standard for music (but I'm sad seing that the market goes the other way 'round: the de facto standard for music delivery at the moment is Mp3 ;-( )

10th March 2010	#161
maxiemixer Gear interested Joined: Dec 2007 Posts: 12	My idea abour mastering... In MHO there is really no strict need for mastering for the CD format BUT, A really good mastering engineer will be a fresh pair of good ears and will help to make your work shine. Of course you can master yourself but then if you plan to do it, just do it during the mixdown... Anyway if I have adequate budget for mastering I tend to use a ME that I trust. And almost every time I get something I like AND a more reassuring feeling that I did my job well since I get usually a lot of compliments from ME. Almost all the times they say that did "nothing" and the balance was "perfect" but still I hear some subtle changes in definition, level and 3rd dimesion that I've been not able to fully recreate in my studio... And I love to have a great ME tweak with my work. But I've been doing gret "damage" with MS processing especially with BX-DIGITAL eq.... But I hope two things: 1. The level war (and every war) to stop! 2. The DVD music format get in use so we can move to a more refined standard for music (but I'm sad seing that the market goes the other way 'round: the de facto standard for music delivery at the moment is Mp3 ;-( )