What´s your mastering setup?

[Calx]

I use Waves Mercury Bundle, Adobe Audition 3 and T-Racks 3 Deluxe..

[Cellotron]

TSM Mastering Equipment

Best regards,
Steve Berson

[DominicWyeth]

I just use a helper monkey. He listens for me and gets paid in banannas. dfegad

[MASSIVE Master]

Originally Posted by Calx

I use Waves Mercury Bundle, Adobe Audition 3 and T-Racks 3 Deluxe..

A) That's not a mastering setup - That's a list of plugins. What's your mastering setup?

B) The last time I posted my "mastering setup" on one of these threads, I was paying my lawyer to make the guy pull it from his website after he 'hijacked' it.

[ORC]

How much did the Mercury bundle cost you????

[macc]

I just so happen to use exactly the same setup as the chap at Massive Mastering, in a room that looks really very similar indeed.

Pure coincidence though, despite what his lawyer would say.

Cheers,

Bob.

www.Maccsive_Mastering.thief

[PureArtist]

Ears, Famputer & Speakers

[Adam Dempsey]

We have two monoliths in the room. They "tell" us what to do.

[Peakly]

Originally Posted by macc

www.Maccsive_Mastering.thief

lol! I clicked on it - nice website

[dcollins]

Originally Posted by Peakly

lol! I clicked on it - nice website

An awesome gear list. Very transparent processing, too.


DC

[Jerry Tubb]

Originally Posted by Adam Dempsey

We have two monoliths in the room. They "tell" us what to do.

Mono rules!

JT

[djanthonyw]

[mosrite]

I run everything off my Mac book pro (which sounds MUCH better than my PC), I have at least a thousand plug-ins that I got from my mate Dave and I listen back on my hi-fi speakers (because that's what the public would be listening on right?).

Oh, and by the way, I charge 25 GBP per track and can book you in anytime as long as it doesn't clash with any of my exams this term.

[Virtalahde]

100Hz HPF and +20dB of digital gain.

[misjah]

lol we're doing advertising here now?

Originally Posted by mosrite

I run everything off my Mac book pro (which sounds MUCH better than my PC), I have at least a thousand plug-ins that I got from my mate Dave and I listen back on my hi-fi speakers (because that's what the public would be listening on right?).

Oh, and by the way, I charge 25 GBP per track and can book you in anytime as long as it doesn't clash with any of my exams this term.

[Ben F]

Originally Posted by mosrite

I run everything off my Mac book pro (which sounds MUCH better than my PC), I have at least a thousand plug-ins that I got from my mate Dave and I listen back on my hi-fi speakers (because that's what the public would be listening on right?).

Oh, and by the way, I charge 25 GBP per track and can book you in anytime as long as it doesn't clash with any of my exams this term.

Sounds expensive! My mate does them for 10

[jackthebear]

Originally Posted by Ben F

Sounds expensive! My mate does them for 10

Not Alfie Noakes????

[William Bowden]

Walk in about half an hour before the session, turn on the power, power up the gear (I leave it all wired in to save time), have a cup of tea, a couple of ciggies, check my emails if I haven't already.

Setup is easy, mastering is hard.

The King

[mosrite]

lol we're doing advertising here now?

I made a funny....

[da goose]

I'm running windows7 now, sounds so much better then windows XP! I can hear frequencies going up to about 40khz!

[Cellotron]

Originally Posted by Virtalahde

100Hz HPF and +20dB of digital gain.

Interesting. My default instead is an LPF set at around 1Hz so that the audio becomes truly "transparent."

Best regards,
Steve Berson

[Cellotron]

Originally Posted by DominicWyeth

I just use a helper monkey. He listens for me and gets paid in banannas. dfegad

Helper monkeys are so 90's. I use a slow loris instead:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9f-6jygRJk

Best regards,
Steve Berson

[William Bowden]

I use these two for heavy lifting, they're simian hybrids:



The King

[johnnynash]

I mastered karate and 15 other chinese words, everything through my iPhone, sound is spectacular

[John Moran]

all vintage equipment here:

Sound Tools
NuBus DSP card, very powerful and warm sounding
DAT I/O and AD in, sounds like no other thing made today
Sound Designer II software, much better than the original Sound Designer, provides EQ and Gain Change processing, it does everything
Atari computer, much better sounding than the lame Intel Macs and PCs
both SCSI -and- Parallel drives, anyone else here offer that? didn't think so...
Larger Advent Speaker monitors with original drivers/foam surrounds,
RS Optimus amplifier, all Monster Cable interconnects
all Aluminum wiring in the walls for power

shweeeet !

[greggybud]

My set-up is Steinbergs Free Filter. (I wish I could afford HarBal) I just sample DC Collins masters into Free Filter....and then always...+1@50, -1@250, +1@2k, and +1@15k. (don't worry about Q, it's not real important)

(and a limiter. You're going to need a limiter.)

You're welcome.

[Waltz Mastering]

Originally Posted by John Moran

all vintage equipment here:

Sound Tools
NuBus DSP card, very powerful and warm sounding
DAT I/O and AD in, sounds like no other thing made today
Sound Designer II software, much better than the original Sound Designer, provides EQ and Gain Change processing, it does everything
Atari computer, much better sounding than the lame Intel Macs and PCs
both SCSI -and- Parallel drives, anyone else here offer that? didn't think so...
Larger Advent Speaker monitors with original drivers/foam surrounds,
RS Optimus amplifier, all Monster Cable interconnects
all Aluminum wiring in the walls for power

shweeeet !

Are you using Masterlist 1.5 for assembly? I've heard it sounds better than the vintage sonic solutions on the quadra 650.

[John Moran]

Originally Posted by Waltz Mastering

Are you using Masterlist 1.5 for assembly? I've heard it sounds better than the vintage sonic solutions on the quadra 650.

sorry man, i can't disclose all my secrets in a public forum

but i'm telllin' ya, that aluminum wiring thing really does warm things up a lot more than copper... seriously hot tracks.

i will let you in on an old trick phil ramone taught me in th early '80s
use the EQ pots on the tape machine instead of the console/processor
muuuuch better results, it's the shorter signal path that makes the difference instead of all that interconnect wiring before it gets EQ'd externally

crap, i'm giving too much away now...

[aleatoric]

Old Motorola Razor cellphone for playback recorded live to a Casio SK1 samplers built-in microphone. Adds a nice amount of air and warmth. If I need more warmth I turn the heat on/up in my apartment, if I need more air I turn on an overhead fan.

[Ben F]

Originally Posted by William Bowden

I use these two for heavy lifting, they're simian hybrids:

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The King

That guy on the right is so wrong! Orange people.