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Yeah, my brother decided to play these drums with no cymbols. This allowed me to get a pretty crunchy overhead tone. I really like the way all the instruments turned out. Asking my sister to go head to head with Diana Ross as her first recording experience was probably a bit much, but I think...

Earlier this week, my brother and I decided to take the day off work and head west to Detroit and to find the Motown house. We had no map or address and just figured we could find it and we did. Being in Studio A refreshed all my feelings about why I got involved in music in the first place...

The standard here in Canada is 8.5 cents per song per copy, assuming you're covering the song and not using their actual recording.

I know we've all heard mastering jobs that were *definitely* "worth it".

Check out two bands: The Advantage and The Minibosses Both do Nintendo covers as their entire set. So good.

Again, not to piss you off but it's possible that you just can't hear the difference between what you're doing and what the ME is doing. When I started doing mastering, I thought the same way you're thinking right now. And... given that it's your mix, you're probably too close to it to hear...

Thank you. I agree. It's only about a year old and we're all definitely excited about it.

Voxengo makes some really nice stuff in a similar price range to the UAD-1 card. I also back up the UAD-1, especially the LA2a and the 1176. The Pultec and Fairchild are great too.

Great albums have been done with shit gear and shit albums have been done with great ear. If you have a great band and a great producer, anything is possible.

I wouldn't say these things are "the most important", but they're right up there, no?

Everything really depends on the source. Spend some time teaching yourself to identify the sound of any octave in the frequency spectrum. 200k, 300k, 400k, 500k, 600k... they're all very different sounds. Sometimes you need more, sometimes you need less... it depends on the source. Be careful...

I've read a lot about Spector's sessions. He sometimes had 10-12 people in the studio, then would overdub another session with those same people playing the same thing again... like double-tracking an entire band. I think for the time, the sound was killer. Really pushing the limits. For today...

That "fine wine" attitude can get to be pretty annoying when all you've got is a coke and a demo tape. I've been there - trying to open doors as a mastering engineer before I'd ever tried "wine", so to speak. Even to this day, I tend to work in two very different worlds between the home...

Mmmm. Maybe I could use it this weekend then. I've got a project lined up that was recorded to stereo cassette tape with two mics in the room. The band is heavy, distorted, and definitely a pain in the ass. To save the unsaveable, I say.

Hahah. I wish it was "my" place. I've somehow ended up working at a place where I can't even believe I'm allowed in the front door. It's the most beautiful room and one of my favourite rooms in the world. I'm definitely on your side here.

If I were you, I'd erase that dirty little thought from your brain. If the mixes are perfect and you're really excited about the release, bite the bullet and get someone to master the album. Other quick/self mastering jobs might sound decent today, but if you want to be able to listen to the...

A poorly framed photograph still has a frame on it. An album that has been mixed poorly is still mixing the sounds together. A stereo mix that has went through some kind of processing by someone who believed they were mastering the album "has been mastered", but it doesn't mean that the album is...

Mastering is a skill like just about anything else. Think of how crazy you might sound if you said: "I'd like to design a house. I've got a pen. Now what?" Sure play around. Figure out what all the knobs do. You might get lucky and not totally ruin your album right away. I certainly wasn't so...

I thank God for not letting me credit myself as a mastering engineer on the first disc I tried to "master". Trust me, it's horrible. The mixes were much better. The worst part is, it took me about a year to hear how horrible it was. I was so blinded by the fact that I did it, that I couldn't...