Guest nick Posted September 4, 2002 Share Posted September 4, 2002 hi peeops, has anyone on this forum taken their tunes to be be mastered. i dont mean whacking it through a waves bundle but 'professionally mastered'. i ask the question because i would like to know how much difference mastering makes to the quality of sound, billy cosmosis once told me that it does make a good difference - but as i've never heard a pre mastered track to one that i've bought commercially i'm none the wiser. im just looking for my tracks to sound fat and wide, as loud as possible and sounding good on every system. how much should i be prepared to pay? obviousl;y this does depend on how well produced it is in the first place - but roughly....£? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bodhisattva Posted September 4, 2002 Share Posted September 4, 2002 Well yes i did... @ my colleagues studio there is an entire mastering kit: Some behringer stuff (Hardware) and SPARK software on mac... The difference is HUGHE, really....... In the near future i will post some links to some tracks i made... If you like i can put on the mastered one and the unmastered one.... Then you can hear the difference! I hope to heve them on the net starting next week.... Check the forum again then ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nick Posted September 4, 2002 Share Posted September 4, 2002 i've used spark and although i haven't used any behringer stuff i whack alot of mixes through a focusrite compounder and spl enhancer - but has anyone mastered their stuff at a 'professional' mastering studio using for eg. - manley, avalon or weiss gear? the toppest of the notchiest. Bod - look forward to hearing your tracks! thx. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lifeform Posted September 4, 2002 Share Posted September 4, 2002 I took my really old cd i released to a mastering studio in chicago a few years ago. THey did an excellent job, but i can achieve the same results using wavelab and Waves 3.5 now. I got a pretty good deal... got 15 tracks mastered for 300 bucks. I was only 16, haha... I think they figured i wasn't in anyway professional, so they could give a kid a hand. If you notice in the liner notes of most psytrance... The guys do their own mastering, with maybe alittle additional help. You could do it all inside your PC if you know what your doing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin OOOD Posted September 4, 2002 Share Posted September 4, 2002 We've had quite a few tracks professtionally mastered, mostly at the Townhouse in London. The tracks were loaded into a Mac directly off DAT and then processed through a bunch of relatively esotedic kit (the only one I can remember offhand is a Massenburg 5-band parametric eq). The Unconscious Collective stuff definitely came out sounding fatter, tighter and more impressive but I agree, you can do a pretty good job yourself with plugins. However, you'll still benefit from taking it to a mastering house because: 1) They have SHIT HOT speakers and amps in an acoustically designed environment - unlike most psy artists! 2) The engineers train for a long time (years, I think in some cases) to do this specific job 3) Access to ultra-high quality hardware and software 4) Objectivity - you might be in love with your kick drum but is it really just a little too big? I know mine are sometimes. There's more to mastering than EQ and compression; a good mastering engineer can turn a good track into a great one (but don't expect him to rescue that turd you've been trying to polish yourself for the last two months!) Hope this helps. Colin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bodhisattva Posted September 5, 2002 Share Posted September 5, 2002 Forgot to mention Al the mastering we do is on QUESTED Active speakers , expensive stuff that is but a MUST have to master professionally .... Also the room is DESIGNED for studio puposes , not like my studio in my living room :) Bodhi... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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