On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 09:58:55AM -0400, drew Roberts wrote: > On Sunday 28 March 2010 19:13:03 Ken Restivo wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 03:57:04PM -0700, Ronald Stewart wrote: > > > Hi, Ron here.... > > > > > > Why not use Mike's great work with LinuxDSP? > > > > > > Also, I mastered one of my remixes both on Indamixx AND a 10,000.00 Neve > > > Pre and although the Neve 'excited' the track and made for a bit of > > > hearing deeper sounds in the track it was hardly a 10 grand experience. > > > (Not advocating Indamixx here just noting my experience). > > > > > > 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's producing for Eminem, Dre, 50Cent) and mastering facilities run > > > this one plugin on the master to achieve the 'mastered' result. It's > > > more of a tips and tricks thing or secret weapon for the guys who don't > > > want you to know what is really going on :) I guess the secret is out! > > > > > > Lastly, I don't know if he is still in the biz but when we were cutting > > > records in the 90'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'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. > > > > What, exactly, changes were present and noticeable in the sound so good? > > What is it that the plugin does to the audio that makes it sound like "a > > hit". Just because Eminiem an Dr. Dre use it-- reportedly-- doesn't mean > > it's not going to work so well on stuff that isn't hip-hop, etc etc. At > > least not in my hands, knowing nothing about mastering. > > > > So I'm basically looking for an engineer who will "open source" master: do > > the work using JAMIN or whatever, give me the files used (i.e. *.jam > > settings), and actually explain to me in some understandable format (and > > which my ears can hear) what improvements, if any, he or she made to the > > tracks, and why. > > > > -ken > > ------------------------- > > > > > On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Ken Restivo <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > 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, it the license on the tracks is to be a cc Free one, it might be worth > your while posting the request to the forums at kompoz as well. In this case, it's unlikely that any of the tracks will be CC'ed. So that's why I was asking about professional mastering services that use Linux or Free Software. We might free-as-in-beer a few tracks though. -ken _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
