BEFORE & AFTER mastering

ramadanman · Post by **ramadanman** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 11:10 pm

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd2/907 ... master.wav

Thought you guys may be interested in hearing the effect of mastering on a track. Sorry for shortness of clip, but it's in full quality wav format. The track is Dynamic Balancing, and it was mastered at Transition

www.mypsace.com/ramadanman

http://dubstepforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=7820 - here you can buy the full length, full quality .wav file

Let me know what you think

ozeb · Post by **ozeb** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 11:30 pm

David - thanks for sharing this... It's a bloody walking advertisement for Transition... crystal clear results!!

ramadanman · Post by **ramadanman** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 12:01 am

It's weird, before the mastering you get used to the track and you think it sounds heavy. then you take it in, and suddenly it sounds really really shit

fullyrecordingz · Post by **fullyrecordingz** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 5:51 pm

Kool sounds nang

dogdaze · Post by **dogdaze** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 6:37 pm

the average level of the unmastered one in the wav is 7-8 db lower than the mastered one, so this is not a fair comparison.

still if you correct that and make them equal, the difference in bigness is obvious. nice one for sharing with us

gravious · Post by **gravious** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 9:04 pm

ramadanman wrote:It's weird, before the mastering you get used to the track and you think it sounds heavy. then you take it in, and suddenly it sounds really really shit

Hell yeah.

Having played my own (more or less) unmastered CDRs 'dubs' out through a club system, and then played the ones that have been mastered at transition, I am seriously impressed by the difference.

Listening to the unmasterd ones again is depressing!

kion · Post by **kion** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 11:35 pm

*note to self - must.start.booking.some.sessions.

ramadanman · Post by **ramadanman** » Sat Sep 16, 2006 2:45 pm

dogdaze wrote:the average level of the unmastered one in the wav is 7-8 db lower than the mastered one, so this is not a fair comparison.

still if you correct that and make them equal, the difference in bigness is obvious. nice one for sharing with us

ah whoops forgot about that . glad there's still a big difference at the same volume then

decem · Post by **decem** » Sat Sep 16, 2006 4:41 pm

how much did it cost you?

frostyljd · Post by **frostyljd** » Sat Sep 16, 2006 9:56 pm

interesting,

but im confused, can you get a tune mastered still without getting it cut to vinyl, or would this be pointless, surely everyone would want to gwet their tune sounding better, but what if we dont wanna cut to vinyl,

im confused, again lol

gravious · Post by **gravious** » Sat Sep 16, 2006 11:28 pm

frostyljd wrote:interesting,

but im confused, can you get a tune mastered still without getting it cut to vinyl, or would this be pointless, surely everyone would want to gwet their tune sounding better, but what if we dont wanna cut to vinyl,

im confused, again lol

Yeah mate, you can just get your WAV or whatever mastered to get it sounding tight. Don't have to cut it.

ramadanman · Post by **ramadanman** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 1:05 am

decem wrote:how much did it cost you?

£60 / hour - 2 tracks got done in 1 hour.

chef wigabu · Post by **chef wigabu** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 1:54 am

frostyljd wrote:interesting,

but im confused, can you get a tune mastered still without getting it cut to vinyl, or would this be pointless, surely everyone would want to gwet their tune sounding better, but what if we dont wanna cut to vinyl,

im confused, again lol

usually it (the digital processing of your tune) would be referred to as pre-mastering , since mastering would normally be either the preparation of the glass-master for cd replication, or the preparation of the master lacquer for vinyl pressing.

aloha!

ztone · Post by **ztone** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 4:22 am

if mixdown sounds rubish,theres not much that mastering can done.. it's all about good tight mixdown and then professional mastering. and when someone else master your track, remember it's better if there's more headroom. gives more options for mastering..

masstronaut · Post by **masstronaut** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 9:58 am

Nice examples.

Original = 'heavy'. Mastered = 'shower'.

dionysus · Post by **dionysus** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 11:46 am

Stuart Hawkes at Metropolis

wil blaze · Post by **wil blaze** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 4:56 pm

dionysus wrote:Stuart Hawkes at Metropolis

for Drum'n'Bass... yes

but as far is iv'e heard nobody gets dubstep quite like Transition...

peace

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