Which Manley comp,is good for: 1.Electric guitar 2.acoustic guitar 3. Vocals?
I know its a braud question,but Ive been doing a lot of home-work on compressing.
When& for what does FET,EL-OP,Vactrol comps come into use when mastering?

Ive been using a Panasonic CD/CDr/CD-RW recorder to record my final mixs (its an older unit,at least 5 yrs old).
If Im not mistaken,the recorder is 16 bit,Im looking into a newer CD recorder thats 24 bit.

is there any program or any way just to simply turn the overall volume up for my CD?

hi folks, sorry if this has been discussed to death, as i'm sure it has. just looking for some quick and informed opinions. .

been looking at Alan Douches at West West Side, i know he comes highly regarded. any thoughts on Treelady? I've used Sterling After Hours, they were great, but I'm looking to get in @ 600-$1000.

I just mastered a 5.1 live concert for DVD-V. In the mains I filtered out some low rumble but left the LFE alone as there was content in there that needed to be, using analog outboard gear. When I applied the filters to the mains, I noticed that the sub sounded disconnected from the mains. I kicked in bass management and the low end goes bye bye. Ahh, the filters phase shifted the program.

OK, there's no way any of you would know this, but I thought I would check before I dive in myself. I have a CD master that needs to be duplicated onto cassettes with Dolby B. Thing is, the duplication system keeps it digital all the way until the signal is put on hub of tape which is then loaded into the plastic shell.

Just wondering. and how much time do you spend listening?

Do you modify your stereo?

Hi!

I mostly record and mix, but in a small budget projects I sometimes do the mastering also. For now I've been using only plugins for that application, but I'm planning to get outboard eq and maybe a great compressor for mastering purposes.

So, all you masteringmasters, what eq and comp should I get?

FYI, almost all my projects are in rock/pop -genre.

Hi,

I am new around here, and have a song I intend to master, but don't know how to go about doing it.
I would like to get some guidance/opinions on it. The song can be downloaded as MP3 (128kbps) in the following link:

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ok hi guys!

I know a little about mastering, based on what i've read in here and in the mastering engineer handbook.

for my final mixes, should i run eq/compression/limiting on the master bus? (protools)