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If you record only 30 seconds of music, but it's a critical 30 seconds (like a soundtrack for a nationally aired commercial) I would still recommend having a mastering engineer work on it.

It's true that the mastering engineer does some specific things when working on a whole album's worth of material, like balancing the levels of all the songs so they sound proportional. But the critical function of making the mix optimal for a variety of sound systems would apply equally well to one song as it would to ten.

So I guess I'm agreeing with Wiz, painful as that might seem! :(
 
littledog said:

So I guess I'm agreeing with Wiz, painful as that might seem! :(
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It shouldn't be that painful. For one your only agreeing with a small portion of Wiz's logic. Wiz is only referring to what I might refer to as a 2 buss remix rather than "Mastering". IF all your doing is some compression, limiting and eq then realistically its not being mastered. When dealing with vinyl there is a whole boxcar of things we can't even cover here, but a hint would be stylus voltages and acetates. Seriously though reading through Bobby Owinski's Mastering Handbook will fill alot of information in, Bob Katz should have his book ready around or soon after Christmas. Im just getting into actually mastering and I spend more time doing data transfers and paperwork than I do listening and adjusting the audio. Im listening to a live CD right now that I mastered a few weeks ago and I blew it and now I have to go figure out how and why. It was an experiement with some new software and the crossfades didn't take. Im sure glad it was my own music from my old band days..Whew!

Just because you own a screw driver, doesn't mean your a mechanic!

SoMm
 
well lets get to work

ok enough with the debating about mastering...
let talk tips and tricks used ..that made the material sound like a pro master job...because im not learning nothing new arguing about what mastering is all about and how its done..and everything said here i already know..thats why i do my own mastering....i heard about vinyl mastering too..but im talking cd mastering....
 
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