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bob katz's mastering book is a MUST for every engineer.
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Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 8:20
AM
Subject: Re: Powered Subs...on to
mastering
ditto that question! I wonder if any well known engineers
have published
any books that have some tips and tricks, best practices,
methods, etc. All
I have is the Yamaha Sound Reinforcement Manual,
which has some goodies in
it.
Kris
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Message -----
> Hey gang,
> any good audio books on this subject
you can recomend?
> id like to get a deeper understanding on
this!
> cheers
> Luis
>
>
> --- Bill Fox <billyfox@soundscapes.us>
wrote:
>
>> Krispen Hartung wrote:
>> > I've been
doing a lot of mastering and mixing
>> lately on a project
and
>> > have learned a lot of new methods and
techniques.
>> I've heard folks
>> > say mastering and
mixing is a black art, now I
>> know why. In these
>> >
particular songs, they sounded wonderful on my
>> headphones. There
were
>> > some really cool and deep things going on in
the
>> 44hz range and below,
>> > and some others in the
62hz range. It all sounded
>> great through my
>> >
headphones, but those frequencies were reeking
>> havoc on my
consumer
>> > stereo systems - car stereo, portable stereo,
etc.
>>
>> Hi Kris,
>>
>> I recommend that
you do not mix using headphones.
>> That is an even more
>>
phony environment than stereo speakers. Speakers
>> pushing air
to your
>> ears is closer to how you hear a live event
than
>> headphones.
>>
>> Mixing and mastering are
two different processes. I
>> recommend that you
>> do
not master songs one at a time in isolation. One
>> ought to
master an
>> album's worth of songs together. Not all at
once
>> but as a set. How you
>> want to volume
balance, equalize, and compress
>> things is very
dependent
>> upon the song order. Concentrate only on
mixing.
>> Save mastering for
>> last and use a pro if you
can afford it.
>>
>> If you are having bass region problems,
there could
>> be many reasons; the
>> system, the speakers,
speaker placement, the room,
>> and on and on ad
>>
infinitum. I'd look at what track in the song is
>> supplying
the bass
>> that breaks up in certain systems. Work on
that
>> track's EQ and
>> compression then remix the
song. Can you mix using
>> your portable
>>
stereo? If if sounds great there, that's how 90% of
>> your
audience will
>> hear the song. Then compare the result through
you
>> regular studio
>> speakers and then headphones.
Listen to your mixes
>> in as many
>> environments as
possible.
>>
>> Take what I and everyone else tell you with
a few
>> grains of salt and
>> experiment on your own.
Mixing *is* a black art.
>>
>>
Cheers,
>>
>>
Bill
>>
>>
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