[ddots-l] Re: Mastering a finished project.

  • From: Chris Smart <chris_s@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:59:12 -0500

Even though their Ozone mastering plugin isn't all that accessible, at least not the DirectX version when I tried it, the manufacturer iZotope wrote a great mastering guide, available from their Web site as a .pdf document. Lots of great tips in there.
Mastering: http://www.izotope.com/products/audio/ozone/OzoneMasteringGuide.PDF
Dithering: http://www.izotope.com/products/audio/ozone/OzoneDitheringGuide.pdf ...

hope that helps some. A lot of it is applicable to whatever software/hardware you're using.

Chris

At 01:38 PM 11/15/2005, you wrote:
Mastering is so subjective, you really need to try and try again. After a while, you'll develop common starting places, and settings that you'll use for different projects. Best of luck,
Kurt,
Ps, always try your mixes on more than one set of speakers, IE your car or home stereo, as well as your monitors. Lots of folks get something sounding right on their primary system, and take it to other people only to have it sounding muddy or boxy on other systems. Try to master as flat as possible so your music will sound good on all systems.

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From: <mailto:cs2005@xxxxxxxxx>Jim Jackson
To: <mailto:ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 9:49 PM
Subject: [ddots-l] Mastering a finished project.

Hello all, I have tried to record a project with no vocals and have converted that recording to audio via the bounce to track command. Once bounced to track completes, I then add a little reverb and then export the file in to a wav file. I import the project in to Sound Forge and add a little highs frequency boost and some compression to the project and save as a file to burn to disk. However, I can never get things just right, it's either too much base, not enough highs, too little volume or too much volume. Other than hit and miss kind of action is there anything or any instructions that I can find that will give me step by step directions on how to master my project? Thanks


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