I have been mixing ITB but considering building a summing mixer to mix OTB.

I know this will open a can worms for all the professionals out there, but I master with a $300 program called Reason. I have consumer speakers my friend gave me when he got surround sound and two pairs of cheap headphones. I know all three sets very well. Not a single person who I've shown my masters to, compared to the professional version, have ever noticed a difference.

hi guys...well i have been musician for years and just started engineering for past two years... now i m taking a bit intrest in knowing abt the mastering too so where does all this gain come from man... i mean if i say that i have a budget of US$15,000... wht should i buy and which will be the bst equipment possible in this price... i little help n advice needed...

Hello, firstly, I'm new here and quite a n00b to recording and mixing sound. Last week I recorded for the first time something with my band (thats guitars, drums, bass, voice), very simple, at my house with just 3 mics to record the drums.

Hi, I'm new here so be gentle please!

Does MaxxBass Have any business in the mastering chain? If applied to all the low-end in a song, wouldn't it have a similar result as just boosting low EQ? Would this not just leave the low end as muddy as if you boosted all the low EQ. Should MaxxBass just be used in the mix?

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Hi, I am new here and am looking for some advice on using Waves plugins for mastering. I just got the Platinum bundle and am a slight novice. Any tutorial help would be great as well. I use Sonar 4.0 PE for seq. wavelab 5.0 for editing plus a boatload of other plugins. Thanks for any help and taking a moment to read this post.
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Bernie T.

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I have a well equipped studio capable of mixing to 5.1. Problem is, I don't know exactly how to capture this mix and then burn it down to DTS or AC3. I know that some very expensive programs are capable of doing everything but as I stated before I only need to capture and burn. If anyone can help me in this area I would appreciate it.

Ok, this is a problem I seem to have often. The issue is basically this, my mixes sound fine. There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with them. Everything seems to sound clean and glitch free. Then I start messing around with mastering. Now if I am doing something clean with like acoustic guitars or a more clean sounding guitar then I can get a good sounding master.