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9th October 2006, 02:07 PM
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5th January 2007, 11:55 PM
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3)THANKS BRUCE. Crap. We did A LOT of records together BigBassBrian | |
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6th January 2007, 12:18 AM
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6th January 2007, 12:43 AM
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| I had the honour years ago to be present....... when Bernie Grundman mastered my band's first (and only) album. He was the first "real deal" mastering engineer I had experienced. I'll never forget it! it was unbelievable how quickly he "got it' and then took it to a "higher place". Sorry for romanticising the experience but it realy was great! So now I'm about ready to master my record (I'm in L.A.) It's a self financed album, so money IS the object and after checking out the others in town who I think are great (Eddie Schreyer, Doug Sax, etc.) I have settled on Mike Laser at Paramount, NOT just because of price but because he mastered "Crazy" by Gnarls Barkley and i love the production and performance on that record! Paramount is also like "coming home" to me being I used to do alot of sessions there "back in the day". So, IMHO, all the guys I have mentioned are great at their craft. As far as best? That's like asking "who is the world's greatest drummer" or what is the "best ice cream flavour"-----it depends on........you fill in the blanks....peace?
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6th April 2007, 06:06 AM
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6th April 2007, 06:48 AM
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   | The best mastering Engineer is the one that really cares about your music! Many times "the Best" mastering engineers don't try so hard to do all what they can...even if they are capable.!
__________________ Peace. Reuven Amiel. "Get your Focal Monitors!" Send me a PM. "There are no rules, just knowledge, good taste and experimentation" "Music was designed to escape from reality for a moment, not to magnify our fears and problems" |
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7th April 2007, 06:07 AM
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Has this happened to you in the past? Any names you care to mention? Curious.  | |
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7th April 2007, 05:27 PM
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| No thanks God this never happened to me! I try to choose good the Mastering guys I work with. But I heard from some good friends , Top producers and Engineers that they went to do the mastering with some A+ big boys having big expectations and they felt that the sound could be much better...just because they did what they wanted and not what the producer suggested...and they are not talking about balance they are talking about vibe and character. One of them wasn't convinced at all about the sound. So he came back to his studio and he remastered the tracks. Called then band and in a blind test all the band preferred his mastering that the Big Mastering guy and i am talking one of the top 5 big boys!! The impresion was that if you are not a Billboard top artist 20 they don't take the project with the same responsability and they don't make the same effort.....they have hundreds of top 100 billboard projects anyway!! I was happy with Tom Coyne at Sterling sound! nice guy!!
__________________ Peace. Reuven Amiel. "Get your Focal Monitors!" Send me a PM. "There are no rules, just knowledge, good taste and experimentation" "Music was designed to escape from reality for a moment, not to magnify our fears and problems" |
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7th April 2007, 06:39 PM
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| There's a lot of greats out there. I'd like to put in another +1 Greg Calbi's name, just because he's pretty great, but doesn't get mentioned as much as a lot of other heavyweights.
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7th April 2007, 07:54 PM
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| Chris Athens. I haven't acutally used him, but everything I've heard that he's mastered has sounded great. Maybe it started that way and he just left it alone, but if you talk to him at all, it's clear that he's musical. He does some mixing and production work too, so he's not coming from a narow perspective. |
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7th April 2007, 08:03 PM
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Now, one of the things that will happen with all mastereing engineers, and maybe even more with the top 5 is people will as for unrealistic things "Make it sound louder than this album, but with the tone of this other one". I can do a blind test with a band and get them to choose the poorer sonics every time. If I were you, I woulnd't believe a story like that unless you'd heard both sides, what the producer says he asked for and what the mastering engineer says he asked for, and then also hear both versions for yourself. Short of that it's all hearsay, and the story you heard may be as accurate as one that was made up. Althgouh no one tells stories that are inaccurate in the music business, right? Especaily when it comes to work they've done, like redoing someone's mastering job. Have you ever heard someone say "I had to re-do the job myself, but my job was worse"? | |
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9th April 2007, 09:50 AM
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| It's a bit like these Tennis Or Golf pro's.. All are really good!! But, the real question then would be....... who's gonna perform well on a particular given day.. Any given mix, could be taken like the weather conditions of the day... What really counts is, ones mental state of mind, and prior events, which in turn, inevitably govern where the persons at... on a particular move to be made in tennis or in mastering... A chess game..really!!  |
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2nd April 2008, 02:20 PM
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2nd April 2008, 02:22 PM
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2nd April 2008, 08:24 PM
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29th May 2008, 07:38 PM
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