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Dev - you're mastering this one too!
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Fri Oct 21, 2005 5:32 amby Greg Reason
Very brave! It's cool that your production/engineering skills have become so refined through doing so much work for other people. I'm looking forward to hearing this for quite a few different reasons now!
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Fri Oct 21, 2005 5:34 amby Blazingmonga
Did you read this somewhere?
Sounds good to me too!
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Fri Oct 21, 2005 10:22 amby Atari
*is lost*
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Fri Oct 21, 2005 1:18 pmby psychotic
I'm kind of lost too, but I think that I've figured it out, and if Dev is indeed mastering this, then that's very good, because he's done so well for other bands.
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Fri Oct 21, 2005 2:06 pmby SirJuzzi
Yes, we can still have hope the album won't be ruined by compression during the masterig.
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Fri Oct 21, 2005 10:11 pmby BLOOOR
interesting
theres a couple albums that dont list the "masterer"
Ocean Machine for example
I wonder if they just left it un-mastered
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Sat Oct 22, 2005 1:39 amby A-Daamage
BLOOOR wrote:interesting
theres a couple albums that dont list the "masterer"
Ocean Machine for example
I wonder if they just left it un-mastered
That's a bit impossible as part of the mastering process is choosing the track order.
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Sat Oct 22, 2005 1:42 amby A-Daamage
....and I just took a peek at the liner notes for Ocean Machine and it says right there that it was mastered at Sterling Sound, NY. Are you sure you don't have a bootlegged copy or something?
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Sat Oct 22, 2005 10:20 amby Biert
It says where it's been mastered, not who mastered it.
Any way, I'm kinda confused with the who production/mastering/mixing terminology? What is what?
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Sat Oct 22, 2005 11:35 amby Noodles
That's cool that Dev's mastering it since he knows how he wants the album to sound so he's best for the job
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Sat Oct 22, 2005 11:57 amby Greg Reason
I read this in the latest Hevy Devy newsletter which I received in the mail two days ago.
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Sat Oct 22, 2005 8:36 pmby funny_little_guy
I really should sign up for those.......
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Sun Oct 23, 2005 12:32 pmby BLOOOR
hey.. wheres my newsletter dagsarnit?!
anyway, the whole "mastering" process is kind of vague. in the old days of records it referred to a specific pocess of setting EQ's in order for it to print to vinyl correctly (something about a slope favouring the treble so that the grooves werent too big, which the "phono" portion of your home amplifier would correct)
so these days it seems to just means setting an overall EQ and/or compression etc.
you can pick the track order at any point really
i'm curious, I wonder if theres a chance Dev could tell us exactly what he did during the mastering for this album
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Sun Oct 23, 2005 4:11 pmby theoryman
Dev has mastered? I thought he produced those other bands. Mastering is a whole other artform. It worries me slightly if he is mastering this. It's good to have a "fresh" set of ears involved at some point, someone who isn't so involved with or close to the project. Then again, it is much cheaper to do it yourself.
And there is something to be said for having total control over your work. Whatever. Just get it done so I can buy it!
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Sun Oct 23, 2005 4:13 pmby chrisslight
At first I thought this threads title was more commanding. "Dev..you are mastering this one!....or else". I was slightly disapointed when I was wrong...