[LAU] Linux mastering services?

[Ken Restivo]

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 09:44:20PM +0200, fons at kokkinizita.net wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 02:38:29PM -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
> 
> > you simply can't be making this kind of assumption, i claim. a good
> > mastering job makes sure that it sounds OK on *all* likely listening
> > systems.
> 
> According to my supervisor at the time I was doing mixes
> all days, it was *my* job to ensure things sounded well
> on all kind of systems and at all levels.  And doing it
> while mixing gives you a lot more freedom to do it right
> than trying to 'fix' a stereo signal.
> 

Well a friend was kind enough to lend me his expensive studio monitors (Fostex PM-2), and, listening to my mixes on them, they sound like ass. Sure enough, there are tons of problems in the high-midrange region that my crappy headphones and Cambridge SoundWorks home stereo just were not turning up. So I've been spending the last few days re-EQ'ing, re-compressing, and re-leveling.

If I had enormous amounts of money laying around, I'd probably invest in some Ultrasone headphones and some KRK monitors.

Thanks to everyone for their advice and ideas. Still haven't decided what to do regarding mastering, but leaning towards just getting something going in JAMIN for now and maybe remastering later on if we make enough money to justify it.

-ken