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RobbieD
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What do you need to buy for mastering songs?
Dark Imagery
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Definitley one of these
cobaltaudio
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Dark Imagery... HAAHHAAAAA!! awesome.
Umm.. a good pair of ears?
If you don't have that you won't be able to master.
There's no one piece of "mastering kit" that professional engineers use I'm afraid. It's all about listening to the track in a good environment that you know well, and giving it whatever it needs. Reverb, EQ, Compression, requesting less compression (my personal favourite!!), all that kind of stuff but ONLY when applicable.
If you want to master your own recordings, I strongly suggest getting a professional to listen to it, especially if the recordings are any good. The far cheaper and quicker option would be to post the mix in the MP3 clinic, and get some feedback from the wonderful people on this forum! Maybe then you'll be able to have a bash at 'mastering' it, but again I'd get someone experienced in a proper listening environment to listen even after that.
If you want to set yourself up as a mastering engineer.... then I suggest you go and get some experience first before you buy anything. Not only will you learn what pro mastering engineers use in terms of outboard or plugins or whatever, but you'll find out if you've got the ears to do it.
Umm.. a good pair of ears?
If you don't have that you won't be able to master.
There's no one piece of "mastering kit" that professional engineers use I'm afraid. It's all about listening to the track in a good environment that you know well, and giving it whatever it needs. Reverb, EQ, Compression, requesting less compression (my personal favourite!!), all that kind of stuff but ONLY when applicable.
If you want to master your own recordings, I strongly suggest getting a professional to listen to it, especially if the recordings are any good. The far cheaper and quicker option would be to post the mix in the MP3 clinic, and get some feedback from the wonderful people on this forum! Maybe then you'll be able to have a bash at 'mastering' it, but again I'd get someone experienced in a proper listening environment to listen even after that.
If you want to set yourself up as a mastering engineer.... then I suggest you go and get some experience first before you buy anything. Not only will you learn what pro mastering engineers use in terms of outboard or plugins or whatever, but you'll find out if you've got the ears to do it.
Massive Master
www.massivemastering.com
Listening skills and objectivity, first and foremost. The gear (as important as it is) is more or less secondary other than the monitoring chain and the room itself.
Waltz Mastering
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I agree. A lot is plain old ear training....and then you can spend a LOT of capital on:
Speakers
Room
Converters
Computers
Software
Hardware
Burners
Furniture
...it goes on...
Speakers
Room
Converters
Computers
Software
Hardware
Burners
Furniture
...it goes on...
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Murdersgalore
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Just put waves L2 on it. When it starts to sound like white noise, back off a hair. 
Steenamaroo
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Just put waves L2 on it. When it starts to sound like white noise, back off a hair.
+1, but with tongue firmly in cheek.
would you believe i was actually taught this in college though??????
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Murdersgalore
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Sadly, yes.
Waltz Mastering
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I remember when I got the Q10 and L1 around 93-94 I thought I was all set when it came to mastering.. I was wrong
SafeandSound
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The first 2 things would be a very, very good set of full range accurate loudspeakers and lots of bass traps and throw in some absorption on the side walls for starters, acoustic cloud next and probably some diffusion.
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