Using PE 6.2.1 and I have no plug ins that did not come with the product.

Hey Rain, I can agree with you completely here...I have always used Jonathan Weiner at MWorks (used to be called Master Works) in Cambridge Ma. He did my first 2 CD's a few years ago and he never ceases to amaze me. To use the common phrase...the guy's got big ears....In Johnathan's case...DA GUY'S GOT EARS LIKE DUMBO!!! I walked in to his mastering suite loaded with a mastering program on a mac, a couple of serious looking eq's and a ton of other outboard that was all top end....compressors, eq's, and the like. and 3 or 4 sets of VERY high end speakers. After converting and loading my tunes into the mastering program he used, he proceeded to listen through once then dialed me in....listened again, dialed some more, listened....you get the picture...took about 2 hrs to do it but he got me out of there for 400 bucks and I had a raido ready spit polished and shiny sounding recording master ready for print, that when compared to other EMI/Sony produced cd's sounded similar in tone and eq and played perfectly on my cd player.

I AM a proponent of actual Mastering Engineers and do agree with you that WHAT you do for mastering also depends upon your budget and audience for the recording. Some guys just want to try it themselves. Also who knows, we might have a budding ME out there in the forums....I just asked the question to see if anyone was actually doing their own mastering and what they did...I saw some kind of video where a version of Cakewalk Sonar Studio Edition (I own producer) had a kind of mastering tool as a plug in. I was wondering if other people actually used it or did they do the actual ME route...

I'm a Newbie to the DAW thing and just produced my first live recording of a band that came out better than I could ever have hoped or wished for sonic wise. So good in fact, they want to master it and put it out....I'm thrilled...

Hi- You might find some usefull reading here Articles by Bob Katz

If you're releasing a full-length "as-professional-as-possible" CD, then you should have it mastered by someone else who has the ears and equipment to do it right. I released a CD a few years ago and used Jigsaw Sound in NY and was very happy with the results. At the time, they had a low-cost per/CD price which was quite reasonable. You may want to check them out: www.jigsawsound.com .

How did you route the TC M3000 in Sonar?

Your talking to ghosts,  that was 2007. 

CJaysMusic


For most people like me and probably 92.6 percent of us in here master our own stuff, Its not that we dont have money or we think we can do a better job, but this is what we like to do, and we all learn from it. If i was making a record for radio play and an album, hell yea ill send it to a mastering house, But for now i enjoy and i think i speak for the 92.6 percent of us in here. We love doing it ourselves. Its great to experiment and learn new technigues and to post your songs in the song forum and get feedback on them and then go tinker with it somemore. Thats why im recording. Its Freeking fun and Mastering is the funnest part of the whole project.

Cj

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