can anyone recommend a mastering engineer that specializes in giving digital recordings analog depth. The big mastering facility in my area is trying to recommend me not to have my recording mastered to tape as it will just add hiss, so basically i said forget this guy cause he obviously doesn't understand what i'm going for. any recommendations?

Please, let me first say hello to everyone in this forum.

I have discovered this forum some time ago and I must say that I like it really very much.

It is quite informative and in a simple langauge even for a woman like me who is not very familiar with technical informations.

Hey, I would be very happy if someone could give it a try on mastering one of my songs...because I dont know how I should do it, and I dont have any cash to send it to someone!
Tnx!
/ One Motion

What is the average rate for mastering? Do you charge for Hard drive space as well as hours? What expenses do you incure that you need to charge for etc etc...I just mastered a Spanish Church band for a friend and it came out awesome!

I haven't actually mastered anything yet myself, nor do I think that I am any good at it. But most of my clients at the studio (in Asuncion, Paraguay) ask me to "master" their stuff. I usually try to refuse to put any attempt in "serious mastering." Most of these projects are VERY low budgets proyects that, in all likelyhood, will NOT get mastered.

Let's talk about mastering..
What software do you use?
What's the "mastering" chain you prefer?

I will ilustrate something with a example. When you play a pro track in some spectrum analyzer you notice that all the frequencies "jump" simoultanously when they hit..
How this can be achieved?

Hi gang,

For the ones that have never had the fine opportunity to sit in during a mastering proccess, :( what are basic chain of events that take place from the time you open the package containing the song/s?

I'm in Seattle and would like to learn some of the finer points of mastering. I've mixed and mastered several records and a bunch of projects and have a good grasp of audio engineering, but I'd like to learn more about mastering from a pro.

Hi, I am new to this forum and wanted some advise from the pros. I am going to be recording a CD in the next month or so and wanted to know is it worth mastering it? I ask this not because I am an idiot but because the whole thing is going to be recorded on my digital 8 track (Fostex vr800/vm88).