Hey there guys...just a question about dithering and bouncing down from 24/48 or 16/48 to 16/44 during the mastering process. .what is dithering and should i play with the dithering programs in my logic and pro tools when bouncing down to final product. .or should i just let the Pro Tools/logic defined dithering do it's thing.

This is an example of a before (the mix as I got it) and after I restored the dynamics.

IT can be done and the bottom file blows away the top brickwall file.

Have a look, I can explain how this is done.

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i have been mastering house and techno using Waves plugins for about 2 years now. mostly just for amatuer stuff and things i have produced as well.

I have had some people ask me to master synth or midi generated music. When I do it for music that has real instruments or the human voice I intuitively know that I'm making it sound better. Electronic music however leaves me confused. Other than removing hiss noise, I don't naturally know what kind of feeling the music's creator is shooting for or what adjustments will make it sound better.

Hey guys, I have two bands that I'm finishing mixing at my studio and I'm looking for a place to master them.

Hey i just wanted to ask you heavy guys (bill, don, mike, etc) what you think of the Patty Griffin CD Flaming Red and the mastering job. wow, it is screaming. .i am mixing some demo tunes for a girl and the production on it is somewhat like the flaming red stuff,. .wonder if you guys can hear what he did on this.

Nice vibe there with Dimtry, Doug and Bob Green.

Here is OLD AND WISE by Alan Parsons strait off my master. I did this analog to digital in the days and this is what I did tonight on a remaster of the best I could get it. I did it at 24/192 and then SRC'ed (sample rate conversion) it to redbook to burn a CD.

This is how I master.

IMHO If you work in digital domain as louder your signal the more bits used so quality is higher. Iam using tcFinalizer96K and trying to send signal with 0db peak, and ~ -14 -16db RMS.

Hi there,

first I want to say that I'm new in this forum and it's the very,very,very best forum i've ever visited.

You're really doing a great job here. The first real "discussion" forum, no "lame, very subjective i know it all statements".
Real help from people with real credits and knowledge. Thank You.

Hello there for the first time peoples. i've been looking over your shoulder for the past week or so...so here is my first post. i am just getting into the mastering headspace on some projects and some real recording with real mics (U87 & RODE NTK) which is awesome, but i sure would like to know if any of you would recommend any of the books that are available out there.