I would like to know why everyone seem to want to do everything from writing the music to playing the music to recording the music to mixing the music and then mastering their own material. Does everyone want to suddenly be considered a renaissance person (meaning someone who can do everything?) Or is their some other reason for this trend?

Hi everyone,

Anyone heard or knows if this EQ is reliable and could fit in a Mastering role ?

Thanks in advance !

Richard

Here's one for the Rock & Rollers,

I've recently been coming across a few commercial records that seem to have brought a whole new level of play to the volume war game.

Hi,

I am curious about dithering. Now, I'm coming from a programming stand-point on this. Here's my thoughts:

In 24-bit sound, the amplitude of the wave ranges from -2^23 to 2^23 units (not decibels, but numeric values). In 16-bit sound, the amplitude ranges from -2^15 to 2^15.

2^23 = 8,388,608
2^15 = 32,768

Hi guys. I am having problems with a mastering suite. My master is on DAT and when they master to vinyl the sound is all distorted, mainly the vocals. They inform me that this is my fault because I have used certain processing on the vocals that do not work with vinyl. All I have used on the vocals are a Focusrite Voicemaster Pro with compressor, harmonics and tube sound all built in.

I have been into mastering for a good while so i decided to go and buy the Wavesmasters package and the Trueverb and IDR plugin , also my WAVELAB comes with the UV22 and a resampling machine.

So this is what i do...

I was in charge of a prog. rock album that was in many ways like the smashing pumpkins, this is what i did...

I recently learned about the 'sweep' technique using a parametric EQ where I set the Q bandwidth as small as it gets (20), the gain up +6dB, and sweep the frequency until I hear 'singers' (frequencies that seem to ring no matter what the instruments are doing) and pull them down -2.4dB.

OK...

I recently e-mailed my replication service & asked which optical transport assembly they used to cut their glass masters; & which burner they would recommend to write CD-R pre-masters.

They came back with Plextor on the OTA...

Hi,

Can anyone throw me some album titles that have been remastered and released on vinyl?

I realize this is probably a rather amateurish question for a very professional forum, but was still hoping someone might be able to help. A friend of mine recently had his demo mastered on the cheap (against my advice). It actually sounds decent, but a couple songs are fraught with clicks and hiss (i'm guessing due to the original recording).