Hi, Ron here....<br><br>Why not use Mike&#39;s great work with LinuxDSP?<br><br>Also, I mastered one of my remixes both on Indamixx AND a 10,000.00 Neve Pre and although the Neve &#39;excited&#39; the track and made for a bit of hearing deeper sounds in the track it was hardly a 10 grand experience.<br>
(Not advocating Indamixx here just noting my experience).<br><br>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&#39;s producing for Eminem, Dre, 50Cent) and mastering facilities run this one plugin on the master to achieve the &#39;mastered&#39; result.  It&#39;s more of a tips and tricks thing or secret weapon for the guys who don&#39;t want you to know what is really going on :)  I guess the secret is out!<br>
<br>Lastly, I don&#39;t know if he is still in the biz but when we were cutting records in the 90&#39;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&#39;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.<br>
<br>Thank you<br><br>Ronald Stewart<br>Creative Director<br>Trinity Audio Group Inc.<br>9854 National Blvd. #322<br>Los Angeles CA 90034<br>310-733-9285<br><a href="mailto:ronaldjstewart@gmail.com">ronaldjstewart@gmail.com</a> <br>
<a href="http://www.indamixx.com">www.indamixx.com</a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Ken Restivo <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:ken@restivo.org">ken@restivo.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">We&#39;re almost done with a 12-track, 40-minute-long CD, recorded partially in Ardour and mixed entirely in Ardour.<br>

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We should probably get it mastered. However, &quot;pro&quot; mastering houses want like $500 for a CD. We haven&#39;t made that much money in a year. I think we spent a total of $80 on recording it. So, not likely that we&#39;ll be justify big bucks to get it mastered.<br>

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I suppose I could run it through Jamin myself, and just hope for the best, but I don&#39;t know squat about mastering.<br>
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Are there any Linux-based mastering engineers around (i.e. on this list) who&#39;d want to take on a project like this, for a rate that we might be able to actually justify?<br>
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-ken<br>
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