Hello, first post. Right off the bat, this website is a real resource of information...truly a great find.
I'm always trying to learn how to listen better to music and was wondering if you find some things, which most people may not consciously pick up on, very obvious that would be of help.

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What happened to the mastering project? I was personally invited to this forum by Bill Roberts, who said that my input would be beneficial on a mastering project planned by this group and asked me to help pay for the shipping of a CD that was to be mutually mastered by the participants. The only thing that I have received is the already cashed $10 check back, almost 5 months ago.

In a 192Khz mastering session, we create by bouncing a 44.1 master file for CD. Besides the tweakhead SRC that Pro Tools offers, what other options would you suggest?

What you think is the optimum? For example How far must/can I go that I am so Loud as other Produktions.With my Finalizer for example i can't reach that without that the normalizer clips or without i'm over the red "Area".Can anybody help?

I work with the Finalizer form T.c. El. but i got akind of distortion on high Levels. The Drums are getting to Low on high Level too. How can i make it better and what ist the alternative for this price-class

i have digi 001 PT LE what plugins would
work with LE to master? or at least as close as
i can get with PT LE.
i dont have Apogeeoutboard gear.
:D

With the arrival of pro tools HD, I'm wondering in what ways this will change the links between mixing & mastering. Do I send CD-rs of dithered down 16bit 44.1K?, A data CD of the bounce to disk of a 96K session?, my GP9 with it's infinite bit resolution?, a cassette?, etc...

Hello all,

hi all,

i'm working on tracking/recording/mixing some material for my band and I was interested in what everyone feels is an appropriate budget to set for mastering. is mastering usually charged per song, per disc, per hour of work? we'll probably have 9 to 11 songs.

thanks,
- neil