1 Apr
2010
1 Apr
'10
5:07 a.m.
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 02:37:20PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote :
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Ken Restivo
<ken(a)restivo.org> wrote:
That's a real point. However, it also leads to "people who knows less
accurately the structure/aims/feelings of the piece".
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
Hi Ken,
First, good luck with your work. I hope it all comes out well.
I guess I'm sort of the odd man out here. I see mastering a bit
differently than it usually gets talked about here. That's OK I guess,
but just warning you up front. I've only been involved with a few
project that we professionally mastered, and they were done by pretty
expensive places. That said the mastering engineers did some really
great work. So I'd say if you can afford it (which I cannot) then it
was a good place to spend money from my experience.
The things we felt we got from professional mastering:
1) A more consistent product across all types of listening
environments. (As stated by others, high end stereos, low end stereos,
radio, cars, etc.)
2) A new set of ears that listened to the songs as a group and helped
with the order they should appear in, or helped with the overall
sounds so that one song supported the next. this gave us some good
inputs.
3) Access to equipment that we couldn't afford, mostly in the form of
high end compressors and limiters.
See my previous mail concerning that.
(but be aware I use Line6 amp simulators with a Leduc bass, which is, in
some way, kind of a heresy!!!)
--
Aurélien