Professional Mastering for $20 per Song - and the first song's FREE!

I got a kick out of this video, which convincingly shows how mastering "improves the sound quality of your music enormously and makes it comparable to other comercially (sic) releasrd (sic) CD's (sic)".

And for only twenty bucks a song!

Bit,

The first one is always free, no?

quantumeffect

I think I would rather give Bapu my 20 bux ...

Funny you should mention this, I was just think about giving bapu 20 bucks ... is there a mechanism in place to get the money to him?

Check Mooch's signature.

slartabartfast


Just goes to show that the best mastering tool is a gain knob.

And in some cases, it should be turned all the way down. 

bapu


I learned that mastering is about taking a 1" waveform and turning it into a 3" solid waveform.

It's also better if you use 3" diameter knobs.
 
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" I am fresh - i am fly - sweat it down I can live in the sky - pay ya back like a bit** pull up your panties I am built like a brick - you soft like a shami - I don't talk a lot of shi* but I speak my mind -  I am fresh - i am fly - sweat it down I can live in the sky -  I am fresh - i am fly - sweat it down I can live in the sky"

" I am fresh - i am fly - sweat it down I can live in the sky - pay ya back like a bit** pull up your panties I am built like a brick - you soft like a shami - I don't talk a lot of shi* but I speak my mind -  I am fresh - i am fly - sweat it down I can live in the sky -  I am fresh - i am fly - sweat it down I can live in the sky"

" I am fresh - i am fly - sweat it down I can live in the sky - pay ya back like a bit** pull up your panties I am built like a brick - you soft like a shami - I don't talk a lot of shi* but I speak my mind -  I am fresh - i am fly - sweat it down I can live in the sky -  I am fresh - i am fly - sweat it down I can live in the sky"

" I am fresh - i am fly - sweat it down I can live in the sky - pay ya back like a bit** pull up your panties I am built like a brick - you soft like a shami - I don't talk a lot of shi* but I speak my mind -  I am fresh - i am fly - sweat it down I can live in the sky -  I am fresh - i am fly - sweat it down I can live in the sky"

bitflipper


And if he can work that kind of magic with a rap piece, just imagine what he could do with my Star Trek theme...

It boggles the mind.

Looks like he finally got that L2 off a torrent...

Whilst I love Sonar i do believe in 2nd harmonic distortion.

I believe you can remove the 'skin' from a fart if you wanted to, so what has that got to do with, mastering and where does it even relate to Sonar?

I'm giving nothing away anymore, the last time i said I'd do some drum tutorials two days latter Seth and Brandon trumped me and of course it was my comment about how to get realistic cellos sounds that started the orchestral shootout.  So no more i will help with technical stuff. But your getting no more of my ideas.

You are joking of course? 

Unless I'm mistaken and the universe does indeed have its central axis based within your good self, it looks to me like you have a seeming tendency to run away with yourself a tad there.  There are some brilliantly intelligent, talented and well-informed people on this forum that I would venture the only thing you'll be depriving anybody of is yet another 'prize one' to belly laugh at.

No matter though there is no shortage of candidates regularly passing through these pages...

wow. 


I did not realize the universe revolved around hash.

Look I thought we had got past all this.  2nd harmonic distortion is what happens as audio passes through a tube. 3rd harmonic distortion is what happens when it passes through a transistor.  Look i have notes and articles if you want a small essay on this topic.  I was just saying that when you master it's nice to run the whole track through a few tubes because it puts harmonic distortion upon the finished program material.  Look every sound is made up of harmonic fundamentals, so not only do you hear a guitar note when it is played at 440 hz (A) above  that are 2nd and third harmonics and more that make the actual note.  without the extra harmonics that exist in that note the note and all notes would sound the same. No matter where or how you play them. I thought everybody was having a go at the op.  I wont give anything more away until my website is running in a couple of months.  I thinks that's fair. 
 
Finally i have a cheapish tube compressor at the moment the ART pro VLA II i highly recommend it.  You can hear the difference and feel the difference when program material is passed through it and when program material is not passed through it.
 
Peace and Love Ben B.C.T (Bachelor of Creative Technology)
Sonar Forever, Protools Never
http://www.myspace.com/audiomystics

I did not realize the universe revolved around hash.

Not that kind of hash, Beag.

squat about diddly

I've learned to not squat about diddly. It brings me closer to diddly's knashers and that is an experience I wish to never have again.


Much like a Mooch encounter, I tell ya.

OK guys what is the problem, i thought that you were taking the micky out of the op.  I did not join in but made some constructive points about mastering and tube compressors.  I did not say that my compressor was the best and in fact i am looking at Avalon at the end of the year.  and i am not saying that this is the best.

I gave some facts about tube compressors and VCA compressors and what they do to source material, nothing more and nothing less.  It can be heard and if i said to a punter listen to these two tracks one with tube compression or 2nd harmonic distortion and one without i would wager they would know the difference.  whether they cared is another question.

I have said on many occasions i am happy to be judged on my music and my woman's music, it doesn't matter if you sell a million or nothing at all.  Great music is great music.  Is that a subjective thing YES.  But because most of the human race behave and are quiet content to be sheep.  It is easy to manipulate the average mans opinion.  They a) like a bit of peace at the end of the day and b) tend not to care unless it hits them in the hip pocket.

The point to this is the truth, what we like and what we want is not our decision, it is foisted upon us.  Those who do not have the above problem, that is no mortgage and no family to worry about tend to have a better understanding of the truth and tend to have an opinion that has not been formed by the media at large.

If you want to attack me go for it, i have tried to be less negative, these last few weeks.  So attack away, as i say if you want to judge me judge my work.  I have said nothing negative in this conversation.  In fact i have offered a little knowledge that perhaps you knew, if that is case i am sorry. 

Finally i am content in myself and my work, is it The Beatles no! but my music has been used on television and i have been paid for this.  So stick that in your pipe and smoke it.

Peace and Love Ben B.C.T (Bachelor Of Creative Technology)
http://www.myspace.com/audiomystics 

And what's all this talk about 2nd harmonics, anyway? Is this not the Coffee House? Here, "second harmonic" refers to the other guy in the band who thinks he can play the harmonica and insists on jumping in to help out the real harmonica player on his solos.