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@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 > > 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. That's a real point. However, it also leads to "people who knows less accurately the structure/aims/feelings of the piece". > > 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 _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
