So my band "The Injured List" just got signed and my recordings will soon be going off to Spectre Mastering studios in Washington, they have a very professional space and their discography is rock solid!

I'm just scared to death that my recordings in the end will sound like sh**!

YIKES!

I've heard that 2x is the optimum burning speed for a CD, but the two drives I have (Lite-On DVD / CD) and PLEXTOR (same, Model 800 something, I'm not there) won't go that low. (CD Architect)

Hello,

We're doing a 4 songs demo-CD (french songs, jazz, bossa...) and we did a little bit of mastering ourselves, though we don't know much about it. We consider asking a professional engineer to do it but I'm not sure to what extent it will bring an added value compared to what we have today.

A good friend of mine and engineer Scott Harding was in a horrible car crash a few weeks ago returning from a studio in a cab. 3 Kids were drag racing and ran a red light and plowed into the side of the cab and then fled the scene, the next morning the car was reported stolen. As a result of the crash, Scott in now paralyzed below the waist.

I have been asked to master a few recordings for a friend, and some of the tracks have haze of digititus (for lack a better word) over them.

My question is: what are some ways you have used to combat this problem?

Here is what I tried in this particular solution:

Hi guys. This is my first post here. I want to give you a quick background of why i'm here. I've been working on my home recordings for about 6 months now. I record my own band and we are in the process of complting our lineup. Once that is finished we would like to record our own album independently and pursue tourning.

I had started threads in forums for my local city offering my services for recording demos basically. One dj guy responded asking about mastering, i said id give it a go just to see if i could help him, but he just sent me a loop of about 5 seconds long with 2 notes.
I'm just asking is it common to master that or is he just misled?

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All genres can and do benefit from reggae. The Beatles, Eric Clapton, Led Zeppelin...

Hi everyone,

I've been messing with a series of songs to attempt to come up with a coherent sound before burning a CD.

I've got a quick question. How come when I post my music up on myspace it sounds different? ...is there any way I can keep it from losing quality and loudness cuz it losses that too...
thanks for ya time