AUdIoCoUrSeS
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Anyone into this area of mastering?
There are many issues to be concerned with if your tune will end up on vinyl.
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vanhool
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What happens with the 0db limit? |
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Tue Jul 25, 2006 1:27 am |
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vanhool
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Do you get some headroom if you watch out from sharp transients and this way get wider dynamic range?
P.S.: Sorry for the split post, needed time to put it into words! |
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Tue Jul 25, 2006 1:43 am |
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sbuby
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Hi everyone,
I don t know much about vinyls mastering, but I know that is an art!!!
It's so difficult to find people to master records, I mean people who dont mess around with your tune after you spend hours to mix it.
After a little talk with a friend I found an instresting thing:
most vinyls mastering studio before master a record take a cloth (special material) and pass it on the master vinyl to clean out all the imperfection that are on the vinyl itself after the cutting process.
The problem is that those imperfection are all our hi freq, so we may end up unhappy on how our record sound after the mastering process.
A little tip this friend told me is to push abit more the hi freq to get an even responce after the mastering process.
He also told me that in the old days the control room used to have a poor hi freq responce, this was done on purpose becouse of this hi freq problem, and if you the the RT-60 of the bigger mixing studio you still see that the RT-60 has a descending curve, I think becouse even if we tend to put our song on cds this days, the firts thing to dissapere is the hi contenet after is mastered, especially now, that everyone seems to push master on cds a bit too much in my opion. I was listening some new pop album at school (dont ask me what, some cheese stuff) and we could here distortion if played in poor cd player...that s all I know...for the moment
if anyone have any advice go for it, im really into eletronic music and I would love to hear some tips on vinyls.... |
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Fri Aug 18, 2006 9:06 am |
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conquistadore
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quote:
Originally posted by sbuby
He also told me that in the old days the control room used to have a poor hi freq responce, this was done on purpose becouse of this hi freq problem, and if you the the RT-60 of the bigger mixing studio you still see that the RT-60 has a descending curve, I think becouse even if we tend to put our song on cds this days, the firts thing to dissapere is the hi contenet after is mastered, especially now, that everyone seems to push master on cds a bit too much in my opion. I was listening some new pop album at school (dont ask me what, some cheese stuff) and we could here distortion if played in poor cd player...that s all I know...for the moment
Hey sbuby, welcome to the forums!
Could you expand a bit about what you said - high frequencies and RT-60? I did not get the relationship between the 'frequency response' of a room and its RT-60.
And I don't think high frequency content disappears when a song is mastered onto a CD. Unless very high sample rates or analogue tape is used. But still that high frequency loss wouldn't be very noticable considering they would be out of our hearing range. And using low quality CD players can make your material sound awful because the circuitry and Digital to Analogue convertors may just not be very good...
Nowadays CDs can be very transparent in their sound - if stamped/written properly they can be a perfect replication of the master. |
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Sat Aug 19, 2006 5:36 am |
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Jordash
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| Re: Mastering for vinyl |
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quote:
Originally posted by AUdIoCoUrSeS
Anyone into this area of mastering?
There are many issues to be concerned with if your tune will end up on vinyl.
Like vinyl going out of tune everytime you play it? |
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