Mastering Practice

[lowpass]

Hi,

Reet long term, I want to be a mix/mastering engineer. I've thought about this for a while, and seen as there is very little possibility of me getting recording work anywhere (and the mixing/mastering side is my favorite anyway). I've decided to go for this route, work a 9-5 to invest in a decent system and some day when I'm good enough maybe be so bold as to even make a living off of it

So what I ask of you, I'm looking for a few (finished) tracks to master/ mix (If you have stems) for free. These will be used for practice purposes only and if they would be used for a portfolio or demonstration then you would be contacted prior to anything happening.

In return I offer you the condition that when I do get round to turning this into something. There will be no spamming on the board about how I can make your tracks loud using izotope ozone and some cracked waves plugins. I'm in this for the long run and will only start charging for my services when I feel they are competent enough to charge for.

Leading on from this I would also only start charging when my services are also worth the amount of money that would be charged at any usual online mastering service. I would hate to be getting my business for the simple fact that I'm charging £5 less per track than the next engineer along, I want to be known for reputation not cheaper rates.

With all this in mind like drop me a pm or someit if your interested or w/e in sending some stuff

peace

[lowpass]

To add on to that, It would be nice to practice on as much different material as possible so please don't all send me chainsaw tracks at once, would be nice to see some different styles (maybe outside of dubstep) as well, I know there are a lot of diverse producers here on the forum so I'm hoping to see some of this.

[FirstIllusion]

yeah man im working on a track at the moment , when its done which might be ages cus i work very slow ill hand it over

[jameshk]

Is it specificly EDM you want to master? I recorded an acoustic track with my mate yesterday that needs mastering. You could have a crack at that if you want bro.

[lowpass]

Is it specificly EDM you want to master? I recorded an acoustic track with my mate yesterday that needs mastering. You could have a crack at that if you want bro.

Not limited to EDM,

So yeah if you have any rock, metal, acoustic I'm happy to do that (I've done a fair bit of metal before so am more than happy to take a listen )

[jameshk]

Sweet mate, I still need to tidy alot of stuff up and give it a rough mix down, make sure nothing is peaking etc. Then i'll get the stems over to you.

[lowpass]

Thanks guys, just to make it clear this is purely practice and you get what you pay for it.

Meaning if you are looking for a decent master of your track then there are plenty of places to get it done, please don't see this as a free alternative to a professional level of service

[Depone]

Sounds Familiar

[dav.id]

nice way to learn it

I'll have some different music style tracks for you:)

[lowpass]

nice way to learn it

I'll have some different music style tracks for you:)

Ha, well I could practice on already mastered tracks but I could only make them sound worse

[lowpass]

Sounds Familiar

Bah, this has been asked recently?

[dav.id]

did you recieved the track?

[lowpass]

did you recieved the track?

I did mate, not at home atm but will have a listen when I get in

[dav.id]

take it easy take a sisi

[staticcast]

Sounds Familiar

Bah, this has been asked recently?

Dep's doing the same thing, but charging for it. I refrained from commenting before because I don't really feel that strongly about it, but IMHO yours is a better approach.

[Ongelegen]

I hope it goes well for you. I hope to finish a track in a few days, it isn't dubstep, more like hiphop but just intsrumental. So I might drop it to you, since I have no further intensions with it, so you can get your practise on.

[paravrais]

Big up for doing this dude, hope you get a chance to spruce up the tune I sent you but no worries if not. It wasn't ever intended to be mastered anyway so would have just rotted on my comp otherwise, bring it back to life!

[Basic A]

love to give you some shit to practice on man, Ive got plenty of shit laying around could use good tidying up... worth it to get a set of ears behind the eq that HASNT been listneing to the sounds for weeks while working on them, nothing else youll hear something i didnt from not being burnt out on them.

you got aim or somethin bro?

[sixth sense]

I'm defiantly going to take you up on this offer and would love to help out as well! whats the best way to contact you?

[lowpass]

Sounds Familiar

Bah, this has been asked recently?

Dep's doing the same thing, but charging for it. I refrained from commenting before because I don't really feel that strongly about it, but IMHO yours is a better approach.

Again I'm not offering my services for money, this is purely about me upping my skills not about undercutting decent engineers for cheaper/free.

If you want a professionally mastered product then go to somebody else (like Depone or the number of other engineers on the board) who will do a better job of it. I am new to this and haven't had a great deal of experience mastering (besides my own productions and a few things in the studio)

Right I am on aim, plenty of time this weekend to work on this stuff so you can either send your tracks over there or upload to mediafire and PM me the link

Aim:- racy1@hotmail.com

I won't accept mp3's sorry, 16bit/44k wav minimum

You will get returned to you:-

x1 master at full volume
x1 master at equal loudness (for you to accurately hear the difference)

These will both be 16bit/44k dithered wav's

Please let me know when you contact me if you are happy for these to be used in my portfolio, if you are unsure (maybe the track is being released or waiting for sample clearance etc) then that's fine just tell me.