Hi mastering members etc. We now have four outstanding moderators, most likely one of the finest group ever assembled on the net.

I would like to say welcome to Doug Milton (ya!) from Cyberella Studios!

I know I'm new to this forum, but I have noticed something which I think is very important. I see lots of posts about equipment. This is fine as far as it goes, but equipment does not make a mastering engineer.

I'm going to start a thread here for questions for those that are new to mastering would like answered. Software, hardware, monitoring, or just the approach some of us take when tackling a song. If i can't answer it, i'm sure someone can.

Hi, I hope this question isn't to vague.

Mastering is where I'm going, what set of monitors should I buy first?

Hi Everyone...

What's the consensus, or everyone's opinions on the best mastering plugins?

I hear great things about the Waves Native Platinum bundle.

I'm using Logic Audio Platinum 5.2 with a Mac G4.

Thanks.

hi friends!I have just finished the recording, editing and mixing of the fourth CD of a local Camerata orchestra.

It was a budget project, entirely done on a bad acoustical place, but with efforts to make it sound really good. Three days with an 8 hour recording period on each.

Its funny how people always say you should send your stuff to the pro's but I've heard some work out of mastering houses that are crappy . They say these mastering house have high-endequipment so tell me how can they make a product worse . Out of respect for these engineers I wont mention the famous mastering house .

I'm completing a music project that will be mastered here in Philly at Masterworks. I have a meeting with the mastering engineer on July 9th to discuss the project and listen to a few roughs before going to final mix tweaking. What kind of prep work should I do? What kind of questions should I be thinking of asking? What can I do at this stage to help the success of the project?

what were the basic tools from 1960 to 1970 comps? speakers? rooms? 3 band? 1 band? in the UK, USA.

Looking for a new compressor for "home" mastering-So nothing above $2k --so maybe in the price range of $600-1000...an early EMT,Altec,Urei,Orban, dbx all seem to be in that price...on the new front Buzz, Alesis CLX 440, SPL,Dramer_____ maybe wait for a used Avalon 747, Manley, Cranesong,,,probably never in that price range andworking . so whats a poor boy to do?