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Terry Wetzel
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Rami,I think Rami means that he wants you to bend over in the shower
(j/k Rami, I had to swing at that pumpkin)
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profanity is the ignorant mind expressing its self!
Rami,I think Rami means that he wants you to bend over in the shower
(j/k Rami, I had to swing at that pumpkin)
G.
Rami,
profanity is the ignorant mind expressing its self!
You *are* new to the Internet BBS world, aren't you? Half the posts on this BBS are the ignorant mind expressing itself...no profanity required.profanity is the ignorant mind expressing its self!
Fucking right it is!
Hello gentlemen!
For me "foul language" is just a form of punctuation really, it can be done well or poorly like any other word usage. But then I'm not generally know for my genteel sensibilities.
I record at home, but if I'm considering releasing something commercially I'm hiring a pro to do it. Even if commercially means I only sell a few dozen to friends and acquaintances. Mastering isn't that expensive, especially compared to the amount money I've spent on this damn equipment already.Well, this is the Home Recording forum, after all, so I'm very curious: what do all you "home recording" people do when you are ready to master your mixes? Is it worth learning to do it yourself, or is it better to send it out to a professional mastering shop and pay for it to be done?
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I record at home, but if I'm considering releasing something commercially I'm hiring a pro to do it. Even if commercially means I only sell a few dozen to friends and acquaintances. Mastering isn't that expensive, especially compared to the amount money I've spent on this damn equipment already.
The way I figure, my ears are just too deep into the project by the time I'm finished. I'd want a fresh set of ears, somebody who can see (rather, hear) the big picture.
I started learning about mastering years ago when I started recording at home, I started out A/B'ing my mixes with albums I wanted my mixes to sound like, EQ'd them to match, added a small amount of reverb overall to the songs and used a little compression to make the mix louder and it didn't sound bad and translated well to all kinds of speakers
Then mastering software came around and I learned more about doing it on a PC. I found that alot of mastering software has a ton of useless settings and pre-sets in my opinion and I just stuck with the EQ, compression, reverb and a small amount of stereo widening in the higher frequencies.
Then I figured I would send one of my songs off to get mastered by a good mastering service, I paid $75, got my song mastered at universal mastering, got it back and compared it to my mastering, I preferred my mastering as 1) it wasn't brickwalled and had dynamics, and 2) it wasn't WAY too bright. It may seem that I wasted the money but then again I didn't because I got to hear the difference between my song mastered my a "Pro" and my own mastering
Something else I believe is driving DIY's to master themselves is the "loudness war" that's going on right now in the music industry. Music is really suffering from this, just as mine did, brick wall mastered, no dynamics, overly loud etc.... Maybe if I would have paid for an entire CD they would have paid more attention to it I don't know......
Well I am the Master 'aint I?
I dont really lay eggs though