quoted 27 lines On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 10:24:15PM -0400, Andrew Duke Cognition
>On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 10:24:15PM -0400, Andrew Duke Cognition
>Audioworks wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>Agreed that in an ideal world, you'd have someone else who is not the
>producer of a release.. master the release.
>
>However, I usually deal with small labels who are themselves on a tight
>budget. I can't tell you how many times I've been burnt buy letting
>someone else master tracks. I spend days mixing a track and am told by a
>label that is it will be "professionally mastered" before release.
>
>Then I get the final cd and it sounds like shit and I feel like all that
>time i spent tweaking, mixing, eqing tracks was just completely wasted.
>
>I also feel that there is a new reality where no matter how much
>production and mastering you do, 90% of people will end up hearing your
>music via 128k mp3's they get off P2P on their computer speakers anyway.
>
>So at this point, I master everything myself rather than hear my stuff
>on a comp again and it sounds like shit. We all may be savy enough to