Free Mastering? Are we crazy? - Examples now up!

adamantium · Post by **adamantium** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 7:15 pm

sup everbody, this is kid logic's roomate. wanted to stop in and introduce myself. my name is AdamAntium, im a a dj, audio engineer and an avid music lover.

just to clarify, we will need a wav file (preffered) with nothing AFTER the master channel (compression, eq, etc...)

all orders will be completed as recieved. thanx for all the replies and support

kidlogic · Post by **kidlogic** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 8:43 pm

Pm's have been sent out to those who hit me up that way, and anyone else who wants some work done just hit me or Adamantium with a link via PM or if you have gmail, hit my gmail account - kidlogic42 at gmail dot com.

Just be sure to send a link for a .wav with no compression/limiting on the main channel when rendered.

As it stands right now we have about 3 days worth of work ahead of us so far, if you have something that needs to be done urgently let us know and we'll try to accomidate you.

Thanks for the responses so far! Looking forward to gettin down on these...

gen75 · Post by **gen75** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 9:27 pm

gonna send you some tunes...

big up the LA krew

two oh one · Post by **two oh one** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 9:56 pm

I've had a few other projects mastered, so I'll share what I know:

People should be providing 24bit files peaking at around -3dB. Some MEs prefer -6dB. This gives them a little more headroom to play with. No dithering on your final output, the ME will do that with a nice noise shaping algorithm. If you dither and they process and dither, it will sound like bollocks.

You CAN use a slight compression on the 2 bus, but go very LIGHTLY. Just kissing up against a comp for peaks can glue your track together and be part of the track, but don't go ape shit and squish the living shit or limit it. That's their job. If in doubt, leave it out. Or provide 2 versions. One with and one without Squish.

That's all I know.

chef wigabu · Post by **chef wigabu** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 10:22 pm

personally i really like a waves L2 on my mix bus. then i adjust my mix so that the gain reduction display is wigglin' around 1-2 dB...

adamantium · Post by **adamantium** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 5:40 am

i really like the l2. the whole diamond bundle is amazing. ive done some restoration with it and am very impressed.

kidlogic · Post by **kidlogic** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 8:36 pm

We're still taking tracks... might be a few days turnaround but hit us up!

sterling · Post by **sterling** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 9:59 pm

how long do you plan on doing this for peeps? are you swamped with tunes already? i hope to have my first dubstep tune done later this month-would that be too late?

will · Post by **will** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 10:55 pm

very generous offer, would like to send tunes but only just started producing and nothing of worthy quality yet

be interested to hear before/after results though

kidlogic · Post by **kidlogic** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 11:24 pm

Not sure how long the free mastering will be offered, deffo for a few months or so... We have a decent amount of requests so far, but we are still taking new orders at the time. If we do suspend the new orders, we will keep you all posted in this thread.

We will be posting a few before/after clips after we get a few more done, very soon.

kidlogic · Post by **kidlogic** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 6:17 pm

watch for some clips here later today...

kidlogic · Post by **kidlogic** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 2:20 am

Here is what we have done with Parson's 'Empty Houses"

Before - http://www.sendspace.com/file/moixwe

After - http://www.sendspace.com/file/p6dbv4

parson · Post by **parson** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 2:29 am

sounds good! really lookin forward to hearin it on the big rig this comin week

lucky_strike · Post by **lucky_strike** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 5:23 pm

sounds very nice. clean!

jack sparrow1 · Post by **jack sparrow1** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 6:58 pm

scurvy boys

wav on its way

dynamixuk · Post by **dynamixuk** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 3:48 am

MUST

FINISH

SONGS

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