I was reading a mastering book and he described the some music as:

A. "there was no transient information"

and

B. "the sound was grainy and literally lifeless"

yet he said the music was very loud.

What do those two descriptions actually mean in terms of the process that created those characteristics.

Hello out there,
I'm relative new in audio mastering and I have a problem with mastering a choir in Wave Lab. The mix i have sounds very cold, hard and flat. I've spent a lot of time to get a warm and open sound - without success. I hope that sombody can give me some recommendations about how to achieve a good choir sound.

Thanks in advance,
madmax

When an artist wants to own his master, are they actual tapes or CDs? If so how do they get to that format from the CD? I know the distributors need a certain format to copy the CD but what format is that?

i have done all my mixes in Pro Tools hd
and impretty happy with them
i have at my disposal a recording studio with some nice analog gear
including
2 Neve 3315 mic preamp's
urei 1178 stereo compressor
urei LA12 limiter
and the console is a soundcraft 2400B
there are also Apogeeconverters

My question is when you are mixing in your DAW do you burn from your DAW or do u get ad external CD burner ive always just used the DAW is that wrong or is that what most people do?

Can anyone make any suggestions?

I already got the UA Tutorial Onscreen DVD. That was nice. I'd like to check out some more, perhaps some with a bit more depth.

I'm especially concerned with recording, equalizing, and compressing vocals. Also to learn some more mastering tequniques.

What are you opinions and thoughts? Im getting ready to master my project and I'm trying to decide which way to go with it.

http://johnvestman.com/separations.htm

What exactly is mastering? And how is it done?

Hi,

I've been wondering how common a practise is it to subtely change the pitch/speed of a track when mastering it - I'm talking about mastering to tape here, so let's say + or minus 1% to 4% speed... or more? Is this ever done?

Any ideas would be welcome,

Thanks -

I have a tape of me doing abt 10 songs at a folk festival. Several originals to. I was thinking of sending it to a mastering studio to transfer to digital and master it.

Anyone have a preference for that type work?

Was stinking abt MassiveMastering.

Rick