?? for musicians: Mastering advice

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hey my band's CD is getting towards completion and I need to start thinking about mastering....

was wondering who some of ILX musicians have mastered with, how happy you were with it, and how much it cost, relatively...

thank you.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 12 December 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

You might also want to throw this question over to I Make Music!

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 12 December 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

A link might be helpful:

http://ilx.wh3rd.net/newanswers.php?board=12

― Kate Classic (kate), Monday, 12 December 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

Just in case, short answer: don't get "The Worm" (the current trend of compressing the shit out of a record so that the waveform looks like a worm, as opposed to a fish skeleton). Get good mastering or none (you can do bad mastering yourself: get rid of inaudible frequencies, compress with a soft limiter, normalize and you're done). If you're prepared to spend about a grand, Allan Tucker at Foothill Digital is a genius.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Monday, 12 December 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

Discuss here mixing and mastering

Decent SOS article on mastering on your own.

― Confounded (Confounded), Monday, 12 December 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

thx guys....i'll repost it on i make music....thx for the link kate.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 12 December 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

matt, my mom has more talent then you have ...she has more talent in her little toe.

― I feel h\, Monday, 12 December 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

matt, suck my vagin, you whore. you have no talent.

― Matt...suck my vagin, Monday, 12 December 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

I'm amazed when a current release looks like a worm. Most of them just look like a fucking square wave.

― martin m. (mushrush), Monday, 12 December 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

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