ive used
http://www.audibleoddities.com/ (AKA twerk) with great results.
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From: "nat hawks"
To: andrewduke@cognitionaudioworks.com, idm@hyperreal.org
Subject: RE: [idm] on mastering Re: [idm] do you master?
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 11:34:17 -0500
alright,
so, what's a good mastering price? obviously, like anything, they
run the spectrum, but can you get a decent job for $100 or so?
the only time i really notice-notice good mixing is when an album
sounds similar on a shitty boom-box with one speaker working, a
nice car stereo, and average headphones.
i've only ever 'mastered' my own stuff on headhpones. the $20 sony
ones. seems to work alright, for what it is. would love to get
something mastered someday though.
any recommendations on open-minded budget master-mastereres?
nat
http://www.littlefurythings.net
> From: Andrew Duke Cognition Audioworks
> To: idm@hyperreal.org
> Subject: [idm] on mastering Re: [idm] do you master?
> Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 22:24:15 -0400
>
> emulsion wrote:
>
>> I firmly believe that thinking you're capable of mastering just
>> because you're a good producer is a BIG mistake. There's a
>> reason those guys get the big bucks and it's not just their
>> crazy gear.
>
> I agree 100%.
> I get asked quite often to master for people and I always turn
every
> request down because I know someone else who specializes in that
> can do a much better job than producer-me. Plainly put, I'm not a
masterer.
> The importance of a well-done mastering job cannot be overstated.
> I can only speak from personal experience because only I can know
> what my material sounds like when sent off to be mastered in
comparison
> to hearing what the mastered version sounds like. Ditto for other
> artists. As consumers, we can't listen to a mastered version of
something
> we've bought and know what kind of magic happened between what
> we hear and what was sent to be mastered because we don't get to
> hear the unmastered version and do an a/b comparison. I was
recently wowed:
> when I got the Mark "Vapourspace" Gage-mastered master of my
> forthcoming album on Phthalo (pressed in the next couple of weeks),
> I was so in awe at what he did with it, I wrote him an effusive
> thank you email. He brought things out in the tracks that took
> things to another level. They're my songs, so I should know them
> pretty darn intimately, and yet he's
> made me listen to them in a whole different light with his
> mastering job. The only
> album of mine that has impressed me this much at hearing the
> difference between
> what I submitted for mastering and the mastered version was hearing
my
> Tim Spurway-mastered Highest Common Denominator album on Piehead.
> Greg can correct me if I'm wrong, but Tim mastered most if not
> all of the Piehead
> stuff. For me, Tim, like Mark, took what I thought was my best
> work at the time
> and took things to another level.
>
> If you can, I would always recommend mastering by someone else
rather
> than yourself. Sure, make what you submit for mastering sound as
good
> as you possibly can, but don't think that someone else's fresh ears
can't
> make your work sound even better. Your job as a producer is to
produce
> the best music you can. A masterer's job is to objectively take
what you've
> produced and make it sound as good as it possibly can.
>
> My CDN $0.02.
> Have a good weekend, everybody.
> Andrew
>
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>
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>
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> [Andrew Duke, Foal, Clinker, Granny'Ark]
>
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>
>
>
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