[ddots-l] Re: mastering

Hi David. Ok if I read your post correctly, you're saying the pros can get another 10 db past the 0 line? I thought 0 db was the absolute hard limit if you're doing things in digital?


At 05:11 PM 9/24/2005, you wrote:
Well there's nothing wrong with dynamics but, you still want your peak value
as loud as possible. It turns out that most commercial cds are mastered so
well by proffetionals that they can get nearly 10 db over what a home made
cd could get. Obviously things like the TC finalizer could help do this, but
its best done by the best masterers with the best equipment, therefore its
going to be impossible for me to get the same results.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Smart" <chris_s@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2005 8:59 PM
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: mastering


> compression and limiting might help. However, for folk music,
> what's wrong with some dynamics?  Do you really want everything
> cranked up near zero when it's primarily acoustic instruments?
>
> If you're using Sound Forge for mastering, try the "normalize to
> -16 db, music" preset under Normalize.  To hear things taken too
> far, try the -10 db Speech preset in the same list.
>
> hope that helps some,
> Chris
>
> At 02:07 PM 9/24/2005, you wrote:
> >Ok, so I have my cd that I've recorded of a folk treo. Its mainly
> >accapella, and I want it to be as loud as possible on the cd, to
> >be comparible with commercial cds, but when I put a real cd in and
> >compare the files, the cd audio is much louder than my recordings.
> >If I try to squeeze any more decibals out of it, it clips. Does
> >anyone have any tips for mastering, so that I can get it on to the
> >cd sounding loud but still fresh.
> >
> >Dave
> >
>
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