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hi, my name's alex and i've been lurking for a while, finally decided to join...
i've been spinning hard house/trance/nrg/goa for almost 5 years and moving into production now...
my question, however, is about mastering for a dj mix i recorded not long ago... my setup was the following...
2 technics 1200's feeding into a vestax pmc-15mk2 dj mixer...
each of the two balanced xlr outputs from the dj mixer is fed into one channel of my studio mixer, a yamaha mg 12/4, that takes 1/4" trs inputs... one channel is panned hard right and the other hard left... then each of the two balanced xlr outputs from the main bus is fed into a separate input channel in my audio interface, the m-audio delta 44...
so my recording was two channels, using soundforge 7.0, and i could clearly see that both were different in peaks and magnitude...
i had someone master the mix for me, but now when i look two channels and they are identical in peaks and magnitude, so i'm concerned that some audio quality/content was lost...
they used steinberg nuendo, claim that they imported the audio file as 2-channel, and that what i'm seeing is normal as far as the final master goes... they also claim to have done multi-band compression, parametric eq'ing, but for reasons that i don't understand, it's supposedly to correct for turntable cartridges that are sometimes uneven (they claim they don't normally do this for live production work on computer)...
does this all make sense and testify to a quality job? i would still expect to see both channels slightly different, even in the final master, for full stereo sound... does anyone understand what they must have done and can explain it to me? thank you for your time and help, much appreciated...
i've been spinning hard house/trance/nrg/goa for almost 5 years and moving into production now...
my question, however, is about mastering for a dj mix i recorded not long ago... my setup was the following...
2 technics 1200's feeding into a vestax pmc-15mk2 dj mixer...
each of the two balanced xlr outputs from the dj mixer is fed into one channel of my studio mixer, a yamaha mg 12/4, that takes 1/4" trs inputs... one channel is panned hard right and the other hard left... then each of the two balanced xlr outputs from the main bus is fed into a separate input channel in my audio interface, the m-audio delta 44...
so my recording was two channels, using soundforge 7.0, and i could clearly see that both were different in peaks and magnitude...
i had someone master the mix for me, but now when i look two channels and they are identical in peaks and magnitude, so i'm concerned that some audio quality/content was lost...
they used steinberg nuendo, claim that they imported the audio file as 2-channel, and that what i'm seeing is normal as far as the final master goes... they also claim to have done multi-band compression, parametric eq'ing, but for reasons that i don't understand, it's supposedly to correct for turntable cartridges that are sometimes uneven (they claim they don't normally do this for live production work on computer)...
does this all make sense and testify to a quality job? i would still expect to see both channels slightly different, even in the final master, for full stereo sound... does anyone understand what they must have done and can explain it to me? thank you for your time and help, much appreciated...