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I'm not in an arguing mode. You guys are the ones making a big deal about it. I've been called every name in the book because I tried out some new software. LOL !!

I don't gotta do anything. Some people were talking about automated mastering software on the Sonar forum. Some people were raving about it. I wanted to see what it was all about. I tried it and on some songs got excellent results. It's just that simple.

To give a really fair analysis of the software, I have to report that three of the songs I ran thru the software sounded really bad to me. I wouldn't release them. So I am getting mixed result with the two programs.

A) I wanted to try the new software out, so I ripped some old songs I had off an old cd. Some of the songs came out really nice sounding to my ears. So nice I decided to put them up on iTunes and maybe make a few pennies. iTunes was an after thought. Before hearing these songs, I had no...

Alrighty then, do whatever works for you. I'm fine with that.

Actually I'm not the one arguing, the other posters are. I'm in agreement with the original poster of this thread. I want to encourage him to keep experimenting with the mastering software. It's the other guys that are trying to discourage him.

I have a bunch of midi equipment and one day I let it play itself. I called the song "Artificial Intelligence." It was a weird song, totally played by my computer. I'll have to hunt around to see if I can find a copy of it...this was about 25 years ago.

I keep it real by playing out twice a week with about 12 other musicians. I volunteer to play my acoustic guitar and sing at two senior centers. I usually play for crowds between 45-120 people per show. I get very good responses from the other musicians and the crowd. The original songs I've...

I took a class in music production at the local community college years ago. My instructor was a mixing engineer for Pat Metheny. He would also master the recordings, and get them ready for cd masters. He explained he would go over and over a song for about a month before he would release it...

Digital technology can be great. I have sound samples that allow me to put together orchestral pieces that I could never do otherwise. I can't afford to hire an orchestra, and I don't have the London Symphony available to me, but thru the use of high quality sound samples, I can create great...

On another song, I ran it thru and it brought out the highs very nicely. The song is an orchestral piece, and the automated software took a bland sounding recording and made it sound exciting and alive, and very real. I've tried mixing it to put a finalized sound to it before, but my end product...

Well on a few of my tunes, the automated software made decisions for me, that I didn't think of doing myself, as an example, I had one song that had a very heavy synth bass line on it, so heavy it would distort the speakers when played. For the life of me, I couldn't get rid of that distortion...

Sorry but automated mastering software is a tool that I have in my audio toolbox. I have two different programs and each one has it's benefits. I remember when the only EQ adjustment we had was a single tone control. Are you saying modern day EQ's are bad ??

New technology is a funny thing. I remember many years ago when hand held calculators first came out. We weren't allowed to use them in school, and many people poo-pooed them. It all seems silly now.

Get used to it. I've posted about this automated software on a few different forums and am getting the same flack on all of them. There's a huge conspiracy against automated software. They will say anything to get you to not use it. I looked into it and found it to be very useful. It's not 100%...

Then go get yourself a wax cylinder and revert back to the old ways of doing things.

Boy this whole automated mastering thing is really stepping on your toes. Really cutting into your bottom line is it ?? Easy money going down the tubes ?? Engineers have been playing out the artists like violins for years. Just like the music stores... think of it this way, the people that made...

The reality is there's 26 million songs out there from which buyers have the choice to buy. The chances of selling a meaningful amount is pretty slim. This is what ALL artists have to deal with, so in turn, they have to keep an eye on the production costs. It makes no sense to put out a song...

Reality check--- there's 26 million songs on iTunes. Do you really want to spend a lot of money producing more ??

You guys are whining more than a bunch of buggy makers whining about Henry Ford's assembly line.