Big Question about mastering?

[Reefer]

What equipment is needed to master music.


Here's a lil stupid question.....Exactly what is mixing?

 

[Stealthtech]

Here's a lil stupid question.....Exactly what is mixing?

Putting different ingredients in a bowl and stirring with a spoon or automatic mixer if you got one

 

[Robert D]

Cept the ingrediants are things like snare, toms, kick, overheads, bass, rythem gtr, lead gtr, piano, etc.......and the bowel is the stereo buss. Then there's the spices........eq, reverb, chorus, flange, compression, delay, etc.
RD

 

[mgraffeo]

Mixing = taking different recorded tracks of music, and setting levels, pan, and various effects (EQ, compression, reverb, etc), in order to get an overall performance that achieves the desired sound.

Professional mastering requires a ton of really expensive equipment. At the homerec level, what it boils down to is multi-band compression (the more bands, the better), a frequency analyzer, and a good set of monitors. There's a lot more that you CAN use during mastering, but that's the VERY basic version of it.

-mg

 

[jake-owa]

If you don't know what mixing is you don't need to know a damn thing about mastering.

 

[AAA]

If you don't know what mixing is, why are you at a recording site in the first place? And why do you stay here and have so many posts?

 

[littledog]

maybe he just likes the cave. you don't need to know anything about mixing to post who has the best butt...

 

[Roker1]

he must have got his 45 posts from somewhere else but cave..

 

[Roker1]

...yeah...and I dont think there's anything wrong witht heguy asking simple but honest question....and he's got the answer , so it's all good

 

[Stealthtech]

Re: Re: Big Question about mastering?

Putting different ingredients in a bowl and stirring with a spoon or automatic mixer if you got one

 

[Reefer]

Must I reiterate

What equipments are needed for mastering music?

 

[Son of Mixerman]

Equipment for Mastering?

Lots and lots of Equipment.

Lots of expensive equipment.

Eq's,...Parametric..tube or solid state
Compressors,...tube and solid state, multiband, dual band.
Limiters.
Converters, ACD, DAC and SRC's. @ channel, and multiple 8 Channels.
DAW with some kind of Editing software, SadiE, Audiocube, Nuendo, Sequoia and Sonic Solutions. Plug-Ins.
Router.
CD burner wit ability to test cd's. testing software.
Monitors, Accurate frequency repro.
Amplifiers, clean and powerful.
PCM 1630, exabyte, DDP...
Maybe a lathe if your doing vinyl.
Bit scope
Room that is acoustically balanced.

or

Protools LE (insert your software here)and Wavelab(or Ozone..T-rackS) your PC and a decent pair of home speakers.

Any and all combinations of the above.

Mixing....is taking indivually recorded tracks representing a song and balancing the right instruments using panning, eq, compression and multi-effects processors and fader levels to create a stereo track that is pleasing to the ear.

SoMm

 

[Blue Bear Sound]

What equipments are needed for mastering music?

Start with the analog list here:
http://www.sonicmastering.com/equipment/analog.html

then the digital list here:
http://www.sonicmastering.com/equipment/digital.html

That's a good $100K right there....

 

[volltreffer]

Nope!

You'll just need a single finalizer express... And don't forget to use your cans!!!



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