SouthSIDE Glen
independentrecording.net
Ah, OK, you are looking for someone to mix your song, not actually master it.
You're the one that called it a "crappy song". I was just taking you at your word.
Here's the help I would sincerely offer to you, tateros:
You have the typical Internet/Guitar Center misconception about what mastering actually is. It's not your fault, this is a social disease spread by the whores who's job it is to sell folks like you on the idea that plugs and a 2mix are all you need to produce quality music.
What you need help with first is learning just what the different phases of the production process are actually all about. The you need to work on your mixing skills, not your mastering, as mixing is where the "vision" is supposed to be applied. By the time you get to mastering, the vision should already be set and the *mix already done*.
*This* is why the idea of mastering a "crappy song" - your words - makes no sense. It's like putting a paint job on a condemned building or salt and pepper in a bowl of bile, there's just no point to it. Now, if your song is not actually "crappy", but just poorly mixed, then what's needed is practice in getting the MIX right instead of trying to fix it in the mastering phase.
Just because this is a "home recording" website does not mean it's an excuse for me (or anyone else) to promote bad style and technique. Letting the idea go that a song's sonic vision is made in mastering or that the purpose of mastering is to fix a bad mix would be the height of irresponsibility on anybody's part.
G.
