I am looking to buy a good used 2-bus EQ. That I can use coming out of the DAW and before going into wavelab. I am looking to spend aorund $1500 Any recommendations. I am using a Peavy VCL-2 for my compressor--for now.

Hi, I produce beats for, and perform on Turntables in, a three piece band called Belleruche. We are just about to press our first seven inch (On a very low budget in the UK), and as a result of our singers Austrialian contacts we've had the first side mastered in Australia.

I recently added a SonicStudio HD system to our mastering room and I am seeking some suggestions for a brickwall limiter. I've currently got an API 2500 compressor which offers some nice old school character but I really need a decent sounding limiter. Unfortunately the local shops are no help since the salesmen typically don't use the gear they're selling.

Hi all,

I'm thinking about building a Masteing Console together with gyraf audio(witch has designed my tube compressors and passive EQ).

ohk I've been sitting back reading all of these mastering posts and I'm going to shoot the question... and it may make me look like a complete idiot but I was always told no question is a bad question lol... what is mastering?

hello group,
how does your treatment differ when you are mastering a track for radio and/or tv ? Do you do that at all these days ?
I usually push the bass-area up a bit (frequency-wise) including a high-pass (around 50hz). for radio I also push the midrange for approx. 1 db up.
does that make any sense for anybody ?

any suggestions apprechiated, best regards-

Word is just out that Capitol Records is re-releasing the first 4 Beatles albums in their American versions, in a box set. This is volume 1 of a planned series of reissues.There will be mono & stereo versions of each album on each disc. No word if the box set will be regular 16/44.1 CD or SACD / DVD Audio. Sleeves within the box will be copies of the original sleeve art.

I'm in the process of recording my old band and I'm completely oblivious to the whole mastering process so I'm taking the songs to a mastering facility. I plan on taking the songs to the facility as 24 bit aiff files on a data disc.

I've heard a lot of mastering engineers complain about too much compression, reverb, low end, high-end ...etc.

Chicago has seen several remasterings over the years: the original Joe Gastwirt masters, the Doug Sax remaster for the CBS Masterdisc (CTA), the Mark Wilder remaster for the Group Portrait box, and the new ones done by Dave Donnelly for Rhino. I've heard that the recording methods used by their producer, James William Guercio, make mastering these tapes a challenge in some respects.

I'm in a bit of a dilemma..

After testing out the demo versions of various mastering plugins (Waves,Tracks,PSP etc) I still can't seem to get my tracks as loud as others in my itunes library.

Whilst the plugins added an overall leveling of balance and some nice sonic tweaking.. they still have not made my mixes as loud as I want them.