17 Jan
2011
17 Jan
'11
10:31 p.m.
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 03:38:48PM +0100, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote:
don't forget the most important aspect of
mastering: a second pair
of ears, in a very good listening room.
Correct.
take that out of the equation, and all that's left
of mastering is
some parametric eq and (if you must) multiband compression.
And I wonder why these shouldn't be done when mixing instead.
In the 'old days' EQ and compression was required to adapt a
mix to the limits of the distribution medium (vinyl in most
cases). No such problem exists today. Why on earth should you
re-EQ a mix ? If the mixing engineer did a good job (by carefully
EQ-ing individual tracks), what chance do you have to improve this
by acting on the mixed signal ? If he didn't, the way to correct
for this is to redo the mix. Same for compression, it's much more
effective and less intrusive when done on single tracks.
Ciao,
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