AUdIoCoUrSeS
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Ok guys here we go for your mastering activity.
Find a zip file jealous.zip uploaded into week 8 ready to be downloaded [url=http://www.audiocourses.com/part3/week8/jealous.zip]
click here
[/url]. 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.
The tune is by one of my all time favourite artists, Donny Hathaway, please do be gentle with him, it's my love 
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
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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
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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.
Cheers
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Mon Apr 26, 2004 6:53 am |
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iNSTiNCT2765
Joined: 05 Nov 2003
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anybody got any titles for some reference tracks they can recommend? 
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Mon Apr 26, 2004 4:09 pm |
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hoggs33
Joined: 09 Feb 2004
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Location: Nottingham, England |
I have uploaded my mastered version of Jealous Guy - saved as Jealous Guy!!!!!
I didn't take any particular approach to the mastering just wanted to try and get a nice 'warm' sound without being too in you face. Played around with various effects to get the end result that I thought sounded good.
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Thu Apr 29, 2004 11:02 pm |
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iNSTiNCT2765
Joined: 05 Nov 2003
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My master of Jealous Guy is in the Week8 folder in my folder on the upload site. - enjoy
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Sun May 02, 2004 8:06 pm |
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griff505
Joined: 23 Feb 2004
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Just posted my mastering attempt. I'm not entirely happy with it, and may have another go at it when i have time.
Let me know how it can be improved,
Thanks!!
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Tue May 04, 2004 3:44 am |
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AUdIoCoUrSeS
Joined: 31 Oct 2002
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Hi griff... why are you not happy with it?
I had a real quick listen, seems to be a lot going on in the bass.... little muddy?
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Tue May 04, 2004 6:26 pm |
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albertom
Joined: 21 Jan 2004
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OOPS!!! Working with the mastering practical, but my midi sequencer Audio EFfects are not good enough. Trying to get a better one. Can't get a clean sound. I'm a little frustated. Can you recommend a good one and not too expensive??? |
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Wed May 12, 2004 1:02 am |
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AUdIoCoUrSeS
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Not sure what you mean, a better audio sequencer or audio plug-ins?
There are many many options for you in both areas.
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Thu May 13, 2004 4:55 am |
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albertom
Joined: 21 Jan 2004
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Just uploaded the jealous guy work
i think that when he sing " im just a jealous guy" near the end, when the backing vocals join in, it sounds a bit distorted, i could not fix that  |
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