On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 21:02 -0400, Al Thompson wrote: > This whole "mastering plugin" thing is something I really fail to grasp > from a logical, technical, and artistic viewpoint. In years past, the > recording engineer, under direction of a producer (who may or may not > have been the artist), mixed the track to sound how they wanted it. The > record company then sent the half-track master to a "mastering engineer" > who made sure it was technically acceptable to be cut on a lacquer and > would play on a typical turntable. He also made SLIGHT EQ adjustments, > based on his trained ears, highly-specialized equipment, and experience. And it still is. Nothing has changed just because the industry is more digital now. > Alas, along came computers. Along came someone with the bright idea of > totally automating what it was that the mastering engineer did. When I master I use a variety of tools, including jamin, but i don't use one setting, and I don't know any credible mastering engineer who does use some automated setting. That's just crazy. Jamin has a multi-band compressor, and a high resolution EQ in it (as well as a limiter and the ability to add harmonics) which can be found as separate tools in an analog mastering rack. No difference. Rich... _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
