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).

I have been able through a studio to work on some mastering gigs as an assistant, the studio is closing and the main engineer is a nut.I was looking for some sort of well respected mastering course, workshop or school that i could travel to(i am in Toronto Canada).Something that would give me a fresh approach starting from the basics and hopefully eventually including new formats like 5.1 or S

This is what I use for mastering right now, in Logic Pro on a Mac G4 (original software of course)

1) Waves Linear Phase EQ's
2) Waves Linear Phase Multiband Compressor
3) L2 Limiter

I need two things:

A) Warmth/tube saturation
B) More punch and RMS output

So I'm looking at:

i have a song ready to go i have tried to eq it my self and it sounds a lot better but i am no pro and this song is going on the radio soon so i want to send it to a pro any suggestions on who to send it to for the best radio ready sound?

I've read that it is not recommended to EQ a room if you're using nearfield monitors. I've also read that it IS recommended to EQ a room if you're using nearfield monitors.

I've been mostly doing indie mastering (and some mixing), and just wondered what people thought about EQing the room (on top of treating it, of course) to get the flattest possible response.

As a mastering engineer, on average, how many adjustments do you make in your EQ, for example do you mostly work with high ends, or have the EQ notched at every frequency, and if so, what (shape) of this look like.

applying a soft clipping plugin to the master of all tracks sounds
like good idea to me, to prevent any sound from causing distortion.
and when I do apply a soft clipper to the master, it does do this.
but i fear this process is what i would describe as "muffling"
or "dampening" the tracks over-all quality, or frequency range.

Hi all,

Sorry to bother you again with my in depth thoughts and questions about transferring methods to the CD Plant.

But let's get it exposed! What is the best method(s) for the most accurate transport to the CD Plant.

I have a Sony Vaio Studio CPU. I Put 2 512 MB of Ram and two 120 hard drives in it and I have the Mbox interface with Pro Tools with a Power Akg Mic and some good headphones.

Hi

I'm trying to get into making radio ads. The only thing that worries me is how much compression to use to make my productions sound punchy but without the radio stations compressors squashing the life out of it.

Cheers Liam