I cut dubplates on a semi-professional level and was wondering what hardware piece (digital or analog) might do me best for quick simple de-essing of troublesome music. This would be used alongside my high frequency limiters specific to cutting.

Just finished mixing a song, hard rock/metal. The band might get intreasted in getting it pro mastered (I'm coaxing them into it) . But before we decide, ill post a link to the song and let you ppl. decide whether it's worth it or not.

ok ive just finished mixing a song into the final master mix. my question is what all do you normally do to a master mix?
I'm using cool edit pro. normally what i do is do a final light noise reduction to eliminate any hiss, then i hard limit, then normalize it. i think my stuff sounds ok...its nice, clean,and loud and all, but I'm still wondering about some things...

Just finished mixing the song. The band might get intreasted in getting it pro mastered (I'm coaxing them into it) . But before we decide, ill post a link to the song and let you ppl. decide whether it's worth it or not.

I'm not a sound engineer and therefore I do plan on taking my finished project to a professional to be mastered.

However, with music being my growing hobby, I do want to invest the time and money (self-education) in learning more about the mastering process.

Just checking to see what ratio is normally used in rock for boosting volume without squashing the song too much. I just finished a song and applied a 2:1 stereo compression to it. Its still not loud but has very prominant dynamics. (sounds good in my opinion but just not very loud). Is a 3:1 ratio considered too severe in today's rock music?
Justin

I am considering making the leap into 'VINYL cutting & mastering'.

I have been searching for a cutting system & equipment & it's very difficult to find anything (in USA at least).

I'm really interested in making test plates / acetates / dub plates for clients of my recording studio as well as myself.

What are some good equipment recommendations?

Is there any such thing as a mastering console that would be considered semi pro?

Something that would have level control and a few inserts. 3 pairs of outputs? Perhaps a 2 to 4 rack space size.

But with a smaller price tag then the custom built stuff?

Thanks,

Woods

These finalizers have great reviews its just so tempting not to get one and try the wizard modes out. so i have three questions

1 jump straight in and get the tc electronic 96k and learn from the wizard mode

2 look for something secondhand like the dbx quantum

3 dont bother its just another mythe so you spend even more on being curious :roll:

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Hey guys, just got my CD back from mastering, and I thought I'd get some opinions from the mastering gurus...

I've posted a few songs, mastered and unmastered versions here:
Robbie