Topic: Perfecting the Sound

Sound engineering is a great way of achieving that melodious sounding track. The music industry has developed so fast that there are no tables turned, when it comes generation of music. The music is created when the tracks go through the process of recording and mastering. When the records are mastered, every single sound is highlighted and made crystal clear. The track becomes professional, loud and clear. Mastering is done by balancing the eq and compression of tracks to make it more pleasant to hear. The mastering of the tracks help it becomes audible and crystal clear. Online mastering is a great way of achieving that perfect finish for the songs that gives it the quality of being ‘radio ready’.  When an unmastered track is played among the professional tracks on radio, the difference becomes obvious. The online services are highly affordable and convenient. Now all it takes to get the tracks nicely mastered is by uploading them to the online mastering sites. Some of the music companies today offer music mastering services. The audio files which are uploaded to the sites are worked on and then sent back to the clients, after mastering. mastering engineering are highly needed to make the track sound professional. This is all the more necessary when there are more than one tracks present in the album. Mastering takes care of such small details like spacing between the songs, volume of the songs, song equalization etc. When there is so much competition around, it is necessary to do that extra bit to make your audio track, go a mile.

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2 (edited by Olly 09-09-10 07:05:31)

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t-racks mastering suit is a great investment for any serious recordist. its affordable and with it you can master and learn about mastering .. put your own cd,s together in a ' professional manner ' for a few £$
and finish up with results that you're happy with not an impartial 3rd party
does anybody remember all the commotion caused by the mastering of one of metallicas albums
it had the sh!t squashed out of it and 99% of the punters demanded there money back because of the distortion ( obscene compression and limiting to get it as loud as possible )
a good mastering engineer is a tradesman but he started somewhere
so if your're gonna be doing a load of recording learn mastering as well as laying tracks..its not rocket
science...and there are loads of tools/software to enable you to accomplish this....but remember  you cant polish a turd..not even a mastering suite with shed loads of gear
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3 (edited by Olly 09-09-10 07:03:48)

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good insight to mastering using wavlab
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Hi Polyal

I edited your posts to show the videos inline.

This is a fascinating topic that I have never really even considered before. Have you made your own music and mastered it yourself? Or have you done it for others?

5 (edited by polyal 09-09-10 20:32:57)

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theres mastering and mastering..for me its very basic ..ie normalising getting the right loudness
eq'ing etc ...if the mix is good to start with the main points to watch for is overall loudness..if you're
putting a few tracks on a cd they need to be all the same volume when played back so the rms ( loudness )
should be similar for all tracks ( if they're the same genre )..there are countless tricks mastering engineers can perform to improve
a finished track and theres loads of software now thats making it possible for joe bloggs to start mastering
and delving into this once enigmatic subject...me personally im learning all the time..but i do know enough to
master sensibly  ....see youtube videos....if you're interested theres a wealth of stuff on youtube about the
subject and like i said before..its not rocket science

try this...get one of your tracks into cubase and get the volume reading 0db on the o/p meters... insert a plugin compressor or limiter start compressing the track ( experiment ) make sure after each adjustment the
meter is still reading 0db ( max )...listen to the volume go up ( loudness )...you have now started to master a
track

ps like the vids presentation..nice

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