Mastering/pressing question!

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So, my band got the master of our record back and it has too much artificial low-end. We're planning on taking the stereo master, loading it in Pro Tools and rolling off a little bit ourselves rather than paying/waiting for a full remaster.

My question is this...since we'll now need to burn a cd to send to the pressing plant ourselves, is there anything special we need to know? I've heard that you're supposed to burn it at as low a speed as possible, but are there special high-quality cds I need to buy or something?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

where are the CD's being pressed??

often, pressing plants have their own mastering facilities, and they might be better equipped to re-eq the master.

― Pablo (Pablo A), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not sure, actually, but I'm guessing it won't be somewhere huge.

I wouldn't want to just send it off without a chance to hear and approve a new master...?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 23:01 (nineteen years ago)

true, but what are your monitoring facilites like on the ProTools rig?

what i mean is, do you trust the result you come up with by yourselves will translate well universally?

if you do decide to do it yourselves, do a lot of monitoring in different playback senarios, burn at a slow speed(not much of an issue in newer burners but why take a chance). I'm not sure on the quality if the cd-r, maybe someone else knows that.

― Pablo (Pablo A), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 23:14 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, I hear you. Our studio monitors are pretty middle of the road, yeah, but I've listened to the current master on at least five different systems and I'd like to do the same with a remaster.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 23:21 (nineteen years ago)

cool, i'll be interested to find if anyone knows about the cd-r issue.

― Pablo (Pablo A), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 23:25 (nineteen years ago)

i would personally be extremely leery of attempting to fix a master myself, and i would absolutely never submit a home-burned cdr as a production master either. but that's just me.

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 23:36 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan,

If it's a large facility you should ask if you can supply them with the audio files, and not an audio CD, because jim is pretty much otm.

― Pablo (Pablo A), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 23:37 (nineteen years ago)

The audio files are a good idea, I will look into that.

The remastering I think we're going to go ahead with...we're not exactly dealing with an audiophile recording as it is, and I can't understand why dude added all that woofy low-end. If you want to hear what I'm talking about, I put a couple tunes up.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 23:45 (nineteen years ago)

i am FAR from a mastering engineer, so please take my advice with a grain of salt.

caveat aside, i'm not totally sure a simple HPF rolloff will do the trick, maybe multiband compression? someone else?

― Pablo (Pablo A), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 00:10 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, we're going to do a remaster with the original guy. Shouldn't have gone with dude who's not a dedicated mastering engineer in the first place, but oh well, we're rolling ghetto style with this one.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 01:27 (nineteen years ago)

mastering by a professional mastering engineer in a special mastering (not recording) studio usually gives the best results.

― nique (nique), Friday, 13 January 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

If had been up to me, that's what would have happened.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 13 January 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

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