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20th March 2007
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| Gear interested Joined: Feb 2007 Location: Boston
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Thread Starter | newbie to mastering???
hi i'm a newbie to gear slutz and is wondering where should i start if i want to start mastering. equipment?, gears?, etc..... thanks in advance
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20th March 2007
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| Lives for gear  Joined: Dec 2004 Location: Eugene Oregon
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1. Read Bob Katz book. 2. Read lots here and at PSW 3. Dont focus so much on tools thinking that is the ticket because it isn't. 4. Try to get an internship. 5. Realize that hard facts that mastering takes many many years of experience. |
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20th March 2007
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| Lives for gear  Joined: Jan 2007 Location: Terra Firma
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Read everything you can right here......some of these cats really know.
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20th March 2007
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| Mastering Moderator  Joined: Apr 2003 Location: Always on the Run
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All the hings mentioned above plus do ask questions after you have read and digested or when in doubt 
__________________ Velvet Room Mastering "Can you imagine how great the Beatles or Pink Floyd could have sounded if they had used better cables? I expect a Nobel prize to someday be awarded to an audiophile cable designer, as they clearly are way ahead of the rest of us. " - DC - |
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20th March 2007
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| Gear Guru  Joined: Dec 2002 Location: Columbus, Ohio
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Hire an engineer to help you to either build a room or to treat the room your in .. to make it as good as possible before you do any of the above.
__________________ Brian Lucey Magic Garden Mastering Dr. John, The Shins, The Black Keys, OAR, David Lynch, Sami Yusuf, moe., Sigur Ros Spiral Groove Studio One - mixing monitors |
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21st March 2007
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| Lives for gear  Joined: Mar 2004 Location: Chicago (Schaumburg / Hoffman Est.) IL
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 Take that one to the bank and cash it in.
__________________ John Scrip - Massive Mastering, LLC - www.massivemastering.com Spoon-feed a newb some answer and he'll mix for a day - Get him to *think* about it and figure it out for himself and he'll mix for a lifetime --- JS | |
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22nd March 2007
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| Gear interested Joined: Feb 2007 Location: Boston
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sounds like a whole lot of shit to get into. maybe i should just stick to making beats. lol
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22nd March 2007
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| Gear Guru Joined: Dec 2002 Location: Columbus, Ohio
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22nd March 2007
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| Lives for gear Joined: Jan 2007 Location: Terra Firma
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Hell no, man. This is FUN. And......you'll learn a whole lot about the front end of production (making tunes and capturing them) by learning a bit about massaging and polishing them at the end. Just don't expect miracles. It takes years and ears, not to mention a more than slight investment in your listening environment. You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.....and you probably can't get a platinum release out of Unclenny's Mastering Bedroom.
__________________ "The main thing is to have a gutsy approach....but use your head." Julia Child "Stop talking about it, get your hands dirty" guitarboy94 "Sometimes invisible are these glistening threads........" Janni Littlepage "Special thanks to STEVE GLEASON......for making me who I am today" Leonard Scaper Leonard Scaper | |
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25th March 2007
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| Gear addict  Joined: Dec 2006 Location: Ayr, Scotland
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Compare your mastering to commmercial mixes that you like. Even use a frequency analyser if you dont 100% trust your ears. Good luck! Eck |
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25th March 2007
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| Gear maniac Joined: Nov 2006 Location: Melbourne, Australia.
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advice regarding mastering includes the phrase "use a frequency analyzer?" I hope you mean the analyzers found stuck to both sides of your head. | |
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25th March 2007
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| Mastering Engineer  Joined: Jan 2007 Location: Melbourne - Australia's music capital.
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26th March 2007
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| Gear Guru Joined: Dec 2002 Location: Columbus, Ohio
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5th June 2009
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| Gear addict Joined: Jan 2009 Location: NYC
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Focus on what you do best and do that. If you want to truly get into mastering, you might find yourself making less beats....not that it is a bad thing....just dont expect to be great at everything. If you don't know your room and its limitations and treat it with that in mind...dont master in it. Read up on acoustics, and get an internship if you can...you"ll learn more there in a month that you will figuring things out for yourself. |
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5th June 2009
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| Lives for gear  Joined: Nov 2008 Location: Netherlands
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people seem to start to see "reference recordings" as a footprint which curve must be matched in order to have a good master. guys you don't need to use an analyzer for that, there are numerous tools which do it automatically on the fly for you. For all the others: DO trust your ears and your analytical and musical senses |
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