Mastering Hardcore/Metal - Discmakers or local of South Florida?

[skindogdms]

I just finished a project for a Hardcore/Metal band and they are thinking of getting their EP mastered at Discmakers. Is there a specific engineer at Discmakers that does Hardcore/Metal better than others? Or should they scratch Discmakers altogether and get someone local in South Florida? I would love for them to do something local so that I could sit in and perhaps get some advice.

Can anyone recommend a great mastering house in South Florida anyways?

[masteringhouse]

Originally Posted by skindogdms

I just finished a project for a Hardcore/Metal band and they are thinking of getting their EP mastered at Discmakers. Is there a specific engineer at Discmakers that does Hardcore/Metal better than others? Or should they scratch Discmakers altogether and get someone local in South Florida? I would love for them to do something local so that I could sit in and perhaps get some advice.

Can anyone recommend a great mastering house in South Florida anyways?

If you're considering Discmakers then I'm assuming that you would be fine with an unattended session? While Discmakers is one solution, there are several here on the forum that can help you via Internet.

Attended sessions are better in that you can directly communicate with the engineer and hear results immediately. Also final editing and assembly of the CD is much quicker if you have complex requirements for fades and timing between songs. If turnaround time isn't a major concern, a mastering house that can work with you remotely (and providing work in progress) opens up more possibilities for choosing the engineer that's right for your project.

[blip01]

skin, Tom is on the money regarding attended versus unattended sessions. An attended session allows you immediate creative input into the mastering process, which as Tom mentions is especially helpful for the final assembly/edits. I do sometimes find that when clients are coming to a new room and making decisions regarding EQ that it can, in certain cases, hinder rather than help the process. I'd recommend that if you do find a local mastering house that you take a few of your favorite discs along with you to the session and spend as much time as they'll allow listening to those references with their room/speaker combo so you at least get slightly acclimated to the new listening environment before making those EQ cut/boost decisions on your project.

Probably 99% of the projects we work on here are unattended, and that process seems to work well for us and many other mastering houses. We are pretty liberal with our revision policies in keeping with Disc Makers customer service oriented approach. If spacing, crossfades, EQ, etc. needs to be tweaked it's a very easy process to get those corrections made, and as always we offer a 100% guarantee on our mastering services.

As far as the engineers at the SoundLAB(currently 6 full time mastering engineers) none of us "specialize" in any particular genre of music. I think in general most mastering engineers are comfortable working with a wide range of musical styles and you usually don't find them working solely in one genre like say a mix engineer may.

Feel free to check out our website and if you have any specific questions shoot me an e-mail or give me a call.

Good luck with your project.

[skindogdms]

Thank you all for your responses. I guess I will just have to try some places out and see how the results are.

[adrianex]

Well the are more central, but a band I mixed their album mastered at Morris' Morrisound Recording Studios - Home and they were happy with it...I felt it was Ok.The album was Progressive Fusion Metal, hope it helps...

Also Fuller in Miami has done some hardcore bands too.

And thats all that come to mind down here.

If you go with discmakers, hope you give us you experience...I've always been curious abou it.

Cheers

[_barnee]

Hey,

What's up?
Any news about this record done at Disc Makers?

Are the products good?