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I really enjoyed this article by Craig about Mastering basics :
http://www.harmonycentral...usicians/ba-p/34649299

And there's Craig's opinion on HarBal. Thanks for the link, Jan.

 
I would also very much appreciate a tutorial on mastering, as I currently have nothing on the subject.
I've got all the other X-series videos.
I'd prefer a video download like the others so it can be viewed off line.
I buy no third-party plugins so it would be great if the tutorial used only tools available with X-3.
 

another yes vote for the mastering videos!!   

I'm for anything Mr. Anderton wants to do. 

musec03
Craig ... you were rockin when I was taking lessons from Ted Greene... you always have such good perespcetive on things...
This could be like those old PAIA things... IMHO!
Those were cool!!!
 
Please do this ... can we do anything for you?
 

wow! another Ted Greene human.... brings me back to the days in So Cal when we were all enamoured with Ted's amazing playing skills in the San Fernando Valley.  We often played together at the old Tri Center in San Fernando Valley... Mike Gannon and Ted together, with Butch singin' up a storm....we were all kids then and what a different world it was.  Ted put the ole' fender amps on the map!
 
I vote for mastering vids... many of my ideas suffer from poor mastering and I'd love to get better at it, as next year I'm planning to be immersed in songwriting like never before!

I don't think of mastering as being one song. I would like to see at least 3 songs. Matching volumes, fades and getting all 3 to sit beside each other as a group. You could showcase Sonar's metering, Quadcurve, PC4K bus comp and Concrete limiter. Then you could export into Pyro and set the markers or whatever. Any video would be great though!

Yes Mastering in Sonar,a great Idea...

Yes a Tutorial on Mastering in Sonar X3, Yes Please!!!
I need all the help I can get.

Well I gotta say...this thread has changed my attitude from "should I do a video?" to "I should do a video." And when I do, the suggestions here will make it better than it would have been otherwise. Thank you!!

I would love to know how to take the few to several to many tracks that comprise the songs I write and sing/play with varying degrees of (non-)expertise and craft them into something really solid, sonically.
 
I tend to write wordy songs that are long and fairly simple, instrumentally. I have a soft voice (female) but good pitch and am decent, but by no means great, on several instruments. My strong points are probably lyrics and song structure and my weak point is probably a lack of bravura technique on any one instrument.
 
Typically, I'll have at least one voice and acoustic guitar. From there, maybe an acoustic 12-string and some harmony vocals. Possibly play a bass track on my good old Fender bass. If there's more, it may be to stick on some keyboard parts posing as various instruments to fill in the extra sounds that I may have in my head. Artificial drums may or may not ice the cake. Whatever the combination, it's all played by me, so necessarily recorded one part at a time.
 
So, it's always some actual acoustic tracks and sometimes additional various synthetic sounds that I have to fashion into some sort of pleasing and cohesive whole.
 
I include all of these details in case it may have a small influence on what is included in any mastering tutorial you might release. Many tutorials seem to begin with the idea that most music consists predominantly of midi or at least of electronic tracks. I'm hoping you wouldn't forget us mostly acoustic musicians.
 
Any guidance and/or tips from you would be greatly appreciated.
 
Thanks, and best of luck!