AUdIoCoUrSeS
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| Week 8 - Mastering Practical |
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Find a zip file need.zip uploaded into week 8 ready to be downloaded click
EDITED
here . Inside is a 16bit .wav file straight off the CD, as it was released. It's very apparent this track was pretty much simply encoded from the original tape master into the CD format. With that in mind it's as you'd have heard it had you bought the record.
Mastering is a fun activity and again it's all pretty subjective at the end of the day, we are all going to generally appreciate a variety of sounds and styles, much in the same way that we all like different foods. Having said that some techniques would obviously be wrong for this type of material. I'd like you to assume that you are mastering this one for someone like myself, I mean the target audience for this stuff is a small niche, so we'd have to be delicate in not creating too coloured a view. In this I mean we are not mixing it for MTV necessarily, so less could be, or could not be, more, that's up to you.
Mastering is essentially about nothing more than using your ears with a high degree of detail. With the latest software on your PC you could drastically alter the sonic qualities of this incredible moment of music, for the better we hope. I always think that if you can't detect processing you are on the right track.
In terms of processes, you might want to consider the following:
Multiband Compression
Aural Enhancement
E.Q.
Limiting
Reverb
Phase Checking
Denoising
Anything else that might be termed "an enhancement"
Remember to neaten everythng up with correct file naming and tail outs etc.
Tip:
For any mastering session, for one track, you would typically have a saved copy of each process you did, so if you did 5 processes you would have 5 different versions, by the end of the day you might have around 20 or 30. Naturally using something like wavelab where the processing is real-time can render the multiple version approach obsolete, yet I would still suggest you go for the many version approach. You can then create a CD full of your versions and shuffle through them in many different listening envronments.
Reference:
Think about obtaining some closely related reference material and making some comparisions so you are on track.
Good luck, looking forward to hearing them.
Oh and an mp3 version for next week please, aim for about 5MEG file size.
Helpful thread:
http://www.audiocourses.com/forum-41.html
Cheers
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