hey there bill and other masters, i read in one of the post in critique you mentioned about the artist providing a 2 mix with instruments and 2 mix with vocals. .why? i can kind of think why you might do that for control of vocal placement or eq/compression but could you be specific...or is this a trade secret and you would have to expose of my body? thanks mark

Ok, I'm using Ahead Nero to burn my CDs and Im about to create a master CD to send off to a pressing plant for duplication.

However I want to make sure I'm mastering to red book standard so the plant dont reject it.

This is my brother's band, I have recorded and mixed this song. I am interested to know if this is acceptable to a mastering facility? There will likely be a few small changes, like further compressing the lead vocals to keep it from jumping, but this would be close to the final mix in my opinion. Any comments greatly appreciated!

I've tried EQ on about half of my masters. I always feel strange doing it but think I probably would benefit. Sure, I've eq'd the individual tracks and that's already in the remix; however, I need to learn more about making all the tunes sound like they belong together. I've heard rough rule of thumb ideas about making cuts from 315 Hz to 500 Hz (3 DB or so). Wonder about the Q though.

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posted December 30, 2002 09:49 AM                      
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I am a Recording and Live Sound Engineer. I am a MAC user and use Roxio(Adaptec) Jam CD Burning Software.

I am a Recording and Live Sound Engineer. I am a MAC user and use Roxio(Adaptec) Jam CD Burning Software.
I have a 4 Hour Poetry Event recorded. There is an Introduction of each poet before he/she recites a poem. There is applause after each poem followed immediately by the introduction of the next poet.

I am a Recording and Live Sound Engineer. I am a MAC user and use Roxio(Adaptec) Jam CD Burning Software.
I have a 4 Hour Poetry Event recorded. There is an Introduction of each poet before he/she recites a poem. There is applause after each poem followed immediately by the introduction of the next poet.

Hello
I usesing Emagic logic for recording and mixing.
I was wondering what type off software is good for mastering?
And what exactly do I do to master.?

I have had some people ask me to master synth or midi generated music. When I do it for music that has real instruments or the human voice I intuitively know that I'm making it sound better. Electronic music however leaves me confused. Other than removing hiss noise, I don't naturally know what kind of feeling the music's creator is shooting for or what adjustments will make it sound better.

Hello there for the first time peoples. i've been looking over your shoulder for the past week or so...so here is my first post. i am just getting into the mastering headspace on some projects and some real recording with real mics (U87 & RODE NTK) which is awesome, but i sure would like to know if any of you would recommend any of the books that are available out there.