Hi all,
I need a suggestion which type of PLEXTOR CD-drive is optimal for mastering studio.
I've been resolved to PX-716UF, but (is said) it is ending type yet and I'm not sure what else to buy.
Thanks for any opinion.

Hey, mastering guys and gals,
Some people says, that if I use for the mastering software equipment only, I don't need any expansive sound-card, because everything is doing in digital process. I mean that good soundcard is necessary for good monitoring of the mastered sound.
Thanks for any opinion.

Basically I'm working with this artist from charlotte for my single and we are recording @ different spots seeing how I'm from Pennsylvania. So... can I juss giv him the beat .wav to record his vocals and then when I go to get everything mastered have the beat and all the the vocal tracks separated? Or do all tracks need to be separated when he goes to record and same for me?

Okay, so... I do some smaller projects, I'm no guru of any sorts except in my own head. Most of the music I record is along the lines of "modern hard rock", for lack of a better term. Radio friendly stuff with a little screamo/yelling.

Hello everyone!

I am using this forum for the first time.
I use Nuendo 2 for recording and mixing music for quite some time now. I've come to the point where I would like to start doing some mastering too. What program (or plugin ) do you suggest to use for it?

Thank you,
Janez

Is there like some way to alter a song digitally so it will sound right on a CD. I mastered a song digitally with Cool Edit Pro 2.1. On a computer it sounds fine. Then I burnt it to a regular Cd-R. it sounded complely different. The highs were higher, the lows were like different and everything. how can I fix this?

After having read the recent article in the September edition of Sound on Sound about mastering in Pro Tools I was wondering if anyone out there has mastered their own tracks this way in pro tools i.e.

Hey Guys -

It's been a long time coming and I'm happy to finally report that I am finally in my new, permanent (or so I think) home.

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Upgrades to come in the near future -

Hello Pro's,

I have to write an essay about Mastering for my diplom at the school of audio technic in Germany.
For that reason, I have some questions to the professionel Mastering Engineers out there.
It would be great to get lots of answers, or at least some...

If you answer, please write your Name and (if it exists) the name and location of you studio.

I know that there is no real standard for the apparent loudness in popular music mastering (i.e. the loudness wars), but is there any standard in mastering classical music?