29 Mar
2010
29 Mar
'10
11:58 a.m.
On Sunday 28 March 2010 19:13:03 Ken Restivo wrote:
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 03:57:04PM -0700, Ronald
Stewart wrote:
Ken, it the license on the tracks is to be a cc Free one, it might be worth
your while posting the request to the forums at kompoz as well.
Hi, Ron here....
Why not use Mike's great work with LinuxDSP?
Also, I mastered one of my remixes both on Indamixx AND a 10,000.00 Neve
Pre and although the Neve 'excited' the track and made for a bit of
hearing deeper sounds in the track it was hardly a 10 grand experience.
(Not advocating Indamixx here just noting my experience).
If I can provide another bit of input. I am not trying to sell you on
the Waves plugin L316 but I know for a fact that many super engineers
(one's producing for Eminem, Dre, 50Cent) and mastering facilities run
this one plugin on the master to achieve the 'mastered' result. It's
more of a tips and tricks thing or secret weapon for the guys who don't
want you to know what is really going on :) I guess the secret is out!
Lastly, I don't know if he is still in the biz but when we were cutting
records in the 90's for record labels, I was fortunate to work with Roger
Siebel or Seibel in Phoenix AZ and this guy was amazing!!! When we would
remix a track for like Sony and he would master it and the remix vinyl
would sound so much better that many DJ's would not play the original
vinyl but opt for our remix version because of the quality of the
mastering, and sometimes these were old school hip hop tracks that were
pretty dirty/gritty to begin with. Seibel Mastering was the facility and
Roger was always very fair. He is a lover of the art first.
What, exactly, changes were present and noticeable in the sound so good?
What is it that the plugin does to the audio that makes it sound like "a
hit". Just because Eminiem an Dr. Dre use it-- reportedly-- doesn't mean
it's not going to work so well on stuff that isn't hip-hop, etc etc. At
least not in my hands, knowing nothing about mastering.
So I'm basically looking for an engineer who will "open source" master: do
the work using JAMIN or whatever, give me the files used (i.e. *.jam
settings), and actually explain to me in some understandable format (and
which my ears can hear) what improvements, if any, he or she made to the
tracks, and why.
-ken
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> On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Ken Restivo <ken(a)restivo.org> wrote:
> > We're almost done with a 12-track, 40-minute-long CD, recorded
> > partially in Ardour and mixed entirely in Ardour.
> >
> > We should probably get it mastered. However, "pro" mastering houses
> > want like $500 for a CD. We haven't made that much money in a year. I
> > think we spent a total of $80 on recording it. So, not likely that
> > we'll be justify big bucks to get it mastered.
> >
> > I suppose I could run it through Jamin myself, and just hope for the
> > best, but I don't know squat about mastering.
> >
> > Are there any Linux-based mastering engineers around (i.e. on this
> > list) who'd want to take on a project like this, for a rate that we
> > might be able to actually justify? > >
> > -ken
drew