Or maybe I should have titled this thread "Mastering 101".

I found this video on Youtube:

Hi everyone

My E-book "Mastering your music with plugins" is now available for free download.
This E-book focuses on methods to make the best use of plugins for mastering and a number of very useful tips to achieve a punchier, fuller and more spacious master.

Download here:

From a thread on Reddit... an engineer friend of mine turned me onto this... and while it's a long read - it's a very interesting one, with audio examples given between Volume War mastering practices and a recent high res re-mastering which substantially reduced gain reduction.

I have a big project coming up i record in my home studio and dont have the money for outside mixing or mastering so i wanna be the best mixing/mastering engineer i can be for now and the future so any opinion is welcome neg or post-Thanks Zee

song post deleted, TOS violation.
-d.

Ian shepherd' big annoucement :

http://productionadvice.co.uk/youtube-loudness/

It could be huge.
What do you guys think?

N.

Hi everyone,

Iam a Sound Engineer

I work for a Audio Label company in INDIA.

I Make Masters CDs ( Audio and MP3) in Nero burning with Minimum Speed (16X). Glass Master Disks and Stamping was done by Third Party.

Now the problem is Few Audio and Mp3 CDs are not played in few cars and music systems.

With the Grammy Awards tonight, it got me thinking about music in general, which led me to listening to arguably the greatest pop rock song of all time, Hotel California ("It's got everything." I once heard someone say.), and found this great live version.

How is the business trending? If you as a recording artist or label are getting your music mastered, are you happy with the result? If you are not, why not? Are you looking to cut vinyl?

I'd like to hear from the members about DDP coded files to go to a replication plant. Please help educate me!

Thanks