im sorry dude but i dont believe that.....i strongly believe if someone can grasp the concept and the knowledge if mastering and can practice enough they can get one the same level as any pro ME....not everyone but to me thats liek saying dont even try cause you will never achieve it.....it aint about your plugins and the price of them or what gear you have...its about what you do with them....just because you went to school to learn how to paint dont mean you paint better then a 12 year kid who has the grasp of it without schooling
I never said any of that. I never said that you can't be a mastering engineer. I said it takes time to learn. What you think you can pick up a book, read it and suddenly be able to do the job a pro can?
Simple fact, sending a record to mastering engineer to get it mastered, will take a few days. Learning to master as well as that guy will take a few years. What part of that do you 'not believe'?
Yeah, anyone can do it with the right amount of dedication, that's pretty much what I said. If someone has shitty ears and poor judgement, they aren't going to be able to master good record. But they can train their ears and their judgementand get better.
I'm sorry, I really just don't understand in what part of my post I said "dont even try cause you will never achieve it". Or where I said that it was about the plugins or the gear you have. Christ, I'm running a cheap as fuck setup myself, with 1 preamp, 1 mic, a computer, a whole bunch of (legal) freeware plugins, and some busted monitors, and I haven't had the urge to spend any money on improving it beyond getting my monitors fixed. And I'm a fucking amateur...I've been fucking around with this stuff for around 6 years. I've improved massively in that time, but I'm no pro. I don't have the experience with anything but my own music and my own vision for starters.
You will improve massively too in time if you keep at it. It is a craft, like anything else. If you keep at it, and stay dedicated, then "you can do it", as they say. Just don't expect overnight results.
Fact is though, it still takes time to learn and train your ears and gain
experience to do it at a pro level. Sending a record to a pro doesn't. It all depends on your agenda. If your working on a fun project for home, then do it yourself, might aswell. If you have to get a record out because of some kind of deadline, or whatever, if you have the budget, send it out to an ME.
Aside from that, the bonus of sending it out to an ME, is that you get a second set of ears.