Need an honest answer from the honest forum.
Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 1:07 am
Hi guys.
I recently had a rock song to master and i feel i did a good job, the guy even said he liked the overall tone of my master better than the other masters he had mastered by reputable mastering engineers, just that theirs were louder.
I said i can do louder.
So i sent him a louder master, 7db louder is how much louder he wanted it.
He didn't like what i did.
Now i don't own any outboard and it made me doubt weather or not you can obtain very loud levels with plugins as good as you can with analog gear.
Is this the case?
I mean the song was averaging -9 rms throughout the song, and i don't care who you are its going to sound muffled. The high end does funny things and you have to steal some off the bottom.
I would love to hear what you guys think about this as I'm sure you are dealing with this every day.
I know that if i ask this anywhere else i will just get crap about outboard gear, but what ever the answers are here i can trust them.
I used t-racks which i feel is one of the best mastering programmes out there. I don't care what the "golden ears" say about it.
Its got a good warm feel and if you use it correctly it can really give the song some punch
and weight.
I haven't come across a compressor limiter combination that works the way t-racks does in the digital world.
Thanks for any thoughts.
I hate it when a client isn't happy, and you doubt your abilities.
So i guess what im asking is
Is it possible to gain the insane levels in the digital world as good as the analog world as i do not own any analog equipment?
I recently had a rock song to master and i feel i did a good job, the guy even said he liked the overall tone of my master better than the other masters he had mastered by reputable mastering engineers, just that theirs were louder.
I said i can do louder.
So i sent him a louder master, 7db louder is how much louder he wanted it.
He didn't like what i did.
Now i don't own any outboard and it made me doubt weather or not you can obtain very loud levels with plugins as good as you can with analog gear.
Is this the case?
I mean the song was averaging -9 rms throughout the song, and i don't care who you are its going to sound muffled. The high end does funny things and you have to steal some off the bottom.
I would love to hear what you guys think about this as I'm sure you are dealing with this every day.
I know that if i ask this anywhere else i will just get crap about outboard gear, but what ever the answers are here i can trust them.
I used t-racks which i feel is one of the best mastering programmes out there. I don't care what the "golden ears" say about it.
Its got a good warm feel and if you use it correctly it can really give the song some punch
and weight.
I haven't come across a compressor limiter combination that works the way t-racks does in the digital world.
Thanks for any thoughts.
I hate it when a client isn't happy, and you doubt your abilities.
So i guess what im asking is
Is it possible to gain the insane levels in the digital world as good as the analog world as i do not own any analog equipment?