enhance this

[dobro]

I got an email advertisement from a CD maker. It offered to master my stuff for $190 if I got my CDs pressed with them. Here's what they offered by way of mastering:

"What post production can do for you:
* Raise your CD's overall level.
* Even out song levels and EQ individual tracks for cohesion.
* Correct minor mix deficiencies with equalization.
* Enhance flow by changing the space between tracks.
* Eliminate noises between tracks."

I've never done any of this yet, but I know I could do it with a bit of software costing about the price they're charging. Plus I don't have to get 1000 CDs made, either, which is just as well because I know a grand total of about two dozen people who would be interested to hear what I'm up to musically these days.

"Enhance the flow by changing the space between tracks."

Gimme a break.

Enhance this...

[SalJustSal]

For about that price you could get a useful mastering plugin called Ozone, which has many more mastering capabilities than they list. In fact you can do everything they list in about any wave editor.

-Sal

[knownuttin]

My all-time favorite comedian Bill Hicks (may he RIP) used to ask the audience if there were any marketing people in the crowd. When a few responded that they were, he would say, "Do me a favor. Kill yourself. For the good of humanity."

After they laughed at this he would say, "No seriously. I am not kidding. I know what you're thinking. You're thinking 'Oh Bill's smart. He's going for the anti-marketing demographic'. Man, that is not what I'm doing! Please kill yourself!"
-kent

[dobro]

Sal, it was Ozone I had in mind.