Hi Masterbox, how are you? Interesting to read your advice on mastering and I particularly enjoyed reading your comment to Yadi (which should actually be on Yadi's page, I guess). I'm not familiar with remixing, I don't understand any bit of it, but I learn as I come across people like you. May I ask you to check out my songs and vote for me? Perhaps you don't like them, but then you might, and in that case⦠Greetings and success in your musical work from the Netherlands, Richard
Great Mastering skills. Especially the last song i like. People forget how important it is for the overall quality and it realy makes a superb result from a good recording if the mastering is done by people with good ears. Our songs are mastered by Sander van der Heijden an he's also a well known mastering tecnician.
I like your mastering skills and sound. You do NOT kill the dynamics and maintain/bring-out/keep the LIFE in the tracks. Everything sounds clear, warm, and rich in the stereo field.
You are 100% right ..... mastering is a skill and takes "good ear" with a lot of practice.
Hi Yadi, sorry I've been busy, therefore my late answer. Regarding soft-/hardware, I use a combo, but must admit, that good hardware is essential to me. For "surgical" use, I tend to choose software plugins. I have a TC Powercore system with the MD3 mastering plugin (from the system 6000) and their Dynamic Equaliser to process for instance a too boomy bass or De-essing vocals or cymbals. For low- and high-cut I use the native PEQ Orange from Algorithmix, which is simply outstanding. After software I tend to send the signal into analog processors. Here I can both choose between solidstate and tube compressors and EQ's to ad "colour" and "airy" highs - something that I find the analogue domain clearly better suitet for. After this processing the signal is captured again and limiting is aplied by an waves L2 hardware limiter/maximizer. This is just my way of doing the job, how 'bout you, are you using software. Your stuff sounds pretty cool, so could you tell a little about your way of doing the mastering job, or if you go to the place with the SSL and TC 6000-system, to get that sound?