hi there team.

I was listening to some of my tracks with my home stereo. I noticed when I turned up the volume with my favorite tunes the sound increased slightly. When I turn up the sound with mine it gets louder much faster. Is that have something to do with being professionaly mastered or is that a problem with my own sound levels or compressing?

OK, I have near field monitors and head phones as my tools for mixing. For the most part I can get everything to sit well in the mix until I cut to CD and play my work on other systems.

The problems is I do not know how the bass levels will turn up on other systems. Is there a rule of thumb that might help at setting bass levels using near field monitors.

In more than one post Bill Roberts has stated that a mix should go to the mastering engineer at -6 db. Does that mean that I should record each track at -6 db also? Or should I try to get the maximum signal I can on each track and then mix to -6 db?

I have to much gain on my basedrumchannel and my overhead channels. I use a Mackie sr24-4 board, atm25 basedrummic. and RODE nt5 as overheadmics. I use the Mackies inserts as direct outs to my soundcard which has 8 balanced inputs. I can't place the basedrummic. inside the basedrum, cause the signal is just to hot, even with the gain fully down!

Hi friends! In early 90's, referring to 44.1/48k/16 bit masters coming from DAT machines, SVHS ADATs and so, people urged mixing engineers to stay at o db at the louder passes. However, nobody had a real reliable clip counter.

I have lost the number of how many times I received DAT tapes for my junior mastering with up to 64 clips at the left or right or even both channels.

Has anybody ever encountered a change in the pitch of the instruments as a track was fading out? On a few ocasions I thought I heard a pitch change as the music got softer, especially with headphones. I think I have heard it during live performances also. Am I hearing things?

i'm talking about some kind of test tone, or test procedure, that will help line up balance and level for monitor playback?

seems i tripped across this info once in the past, and there was a link to where to purchase a CD for this purpose.

thanks

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.

Which Loudness Level must I record the file before I start mastering? Do I have to record it as loud as possible?