Ok. as many of you have learned.. my primary function is mastering.

Now through this long and eventful career. I have done just about all of it. FOH, Voice production/punches, huge live mixes (75+channels), huge studio mixes (90+channels)...worked in the 70's/80's/90's...00's too.

Now...here is the point:

I'm in Seattle and would like to learn some of the finer points of mastering. I've mixed and mastered several records and a bunch of projects and have a good grasp of audio engineering, but I'd like to learn more about mastering from a pro.

Gang,

For the Pros out there:

IDR or UV22--which do you prefer (dare I say is better?) and why?

Thanks,

Jim

Hi,
I want to put together a pc to use as a daw and I was reading the specs on some CD burners. None of them seemed to support 1x! Most didn't even support 2x either. Have I missunderstood or is there only some units that can still do this?
Thanks

Is there anything to be done with stereo fields when mixing down to two tracks?

We prerecorded instrument tracks, played them back during a live church performance, recording the vocals and congregation. Used four small condensers (AT4041's) pointed from the stage in a semi-circle on separate tracks. Lead vocal on a Beyer M500 through a GR-MP2.

Hi, I am new to this forum and wanted some advise from the pros. I am going to be recording a CD in the next month or so and wanted to know is it worth mastering it? I ask this not because I am an idiot but because the whole thing is going to be recorded on my digital 8 track (Fostex vr800/vm88).

Gang,

I know the importance of mastering by a mastering engineer. But trying to tell most of my clients this is like speaking to them in Latin. My mastering guy has given me some good things to say that helps, but most of them really don't get it, all they hear is what it cost and all things considered it's pretty cheap. They see the Finalizer and Masterlink and say won't that do?

Why don't we pick 2 songs...4 mins ..Any 2 you want...let's take them from the CD and clean them up like they are supposed to sound, Put them on a CD and share them so folks can see where we all are coming from. It would be educational...And I would have no problem doing the CD finals (strait up) and we can all share skills.