Mastering??

[VesuviusJay]

Who likes or uses mastering plugins such as Izotope's Ozone?

 

[toadies]

i use Rchannel, c4, and L1 by waves. love it, I'm going to try ozone, like the idea of 1 plugin.

 

[Gidge]

If you are gonna "master" in the same room with the same monitors and the same gear, all you are doing is fixing things you shoulda done right with the mix....the good thing is, you probably have access to the tracks (unlike a mastering engineer) and can go back and fix it......

 

[toadies]

If you are gonna "master" in the same room with the same monitors and the same gear, all you are doing is fixing things you shoulda done right with the mix....the good thing is, you probably have access to the tracks (unlike a mastering engineer) and can go back and fix it......

my mixes tend to sound good, i don't have the perfect monitors but i uselly compare them to a commerial song will mixing. So when i work on my budjet mastering i get good results. But believe me if i could afford to go to a mastering house i would be there quick! I seen the results of a raw version to a master version, its AMAZING!

 

[Light]

I do not master. I send it to someone who knows what they are doing, which when it comes to mastering, is not me.

Light

"Cowards can never be moral."
M.K. Gandhi

 

[Gidge]

my mixes tend to sound good, i don't have the perfect monitors but i uselly compare them to a commerial song will mixing. So when i work on my budjet mastering i get good results. But believe me if i could afford to go to a mastering house i would be there quick! I seen the results of a raw version to a master version, its AMAZING!

all im saying is that instead of "mastering", make notes of what needs fixing and go back and do some fine tuning .....

 

[malcolm123]

Waves,,, mostly,,, Depends on the situation though.

BTW,, I wouldn't call it exactly Mastering though ( For me) ,, I guess it's sort of " Helping " .

I mainly just work with local groups stuff and if the mix is good enough to work with.. I will " Help " it enough for Demo purposes

My stuff goes to someone else.

Malcolm

 

[toadies]

that is true, I normally don't consider it mastering, but the band wanted me to do something to it to make it louder and not make it as raw, I gave my best shot on it, after 2-3 hours exprementing with it, i achieve a sound me and the band were impressed with listening to in the car.

Is it quality mastering? no way, but it is sure demo quality, i think beyond that, personally.

 

[malcolm123]

that is true, I normally don't consider it mastering, but the band wanted me to do something to it to make it louder and not make it as raw, I gave my best shot on it, after 2-3 hours exprementing with it, i achieve a sound me and the band were impressed with listening to in the car.

Is it quality mastering? no way, but it is sure demo quality, i think beyond that, personally.

Yep,
I think a lot of us can get pretty good results with our tools and environments,, but Pro Quality Mastering... For myself,, I think not. Thats if you compare it to the big boys. I have done some mastering myself that I felt was as good as if not better than some supposed to be Pros. I would love to have all of my current tools moved to a Pro controlled mastering suite and see what I could come up with. I think the years of experience and the quality tuned control rooms gives the pros that powerful edge.

Malcolm

 

[dobro]

I've been doing this long enough to know two things about mastering: first, a new set of ears on a project is INVALUABLE, and if those are experienced, intelligent ears, you're in the money. Second, people who have a lot of experience on this board just about all say the same thing: it's really dumb to master your own stuff. I believe 'em.

But I don't have enough money to pay somebody to master for me. So I just get the mixes as good as I can, and then adjust song levels relative to each other on the album. That's as far as I go with 'home mastering'. But another thing I do when I'm still at the recording and arranging and mixing stages is to use similar instruments, similar mics, similar reverbs - it helps to produce an overall sound that tends to hang together all by itself, without any other adjustments.

 

[mixmkr]

I've been doing this long enough to know two things about mastering: first, a new set of ears on a project is INVALUABLE, and if those are experienced, intelligent ears, you're in the money. Second, people who have a lot of experience on this board just about all say the same thing: it's really dumb to master your own stuff. I believe 'em.

But I don't have enough money to pay somebody to master for me. So I just get the mixes as good as I can, and then adjust song levels relative to each other on the album. That's as far as I go with 'home mastering'. But another thing I do when I'm still at the recording and arranging and mixing stages is to use similar instruments, similar mics, similar reverbs - it helps to produce an overall sound that tends to hang together all by itself, without any other adjustments.

wadda ya do about the hiss??!!