Do you love your ME?

[LilWUB]

Wub, hope this is cool.

I wanted to know from the peeps (that use someone else's services for mastering) who you like. I know there's a few ME's that frequent the forums and I don't want to hear about how many pieces of analog equipment you have, etc.. I want to hear it from the clients!

Who do you dig? Do they give any feedback about your mix? Do they have good prices? Do they tell you you'll be the next Snorlax?

Piece

[Dahneboy]

Wub, hope this is cool.

I wanted to know from the peeps (that use someone else's services for mastering) who you like. I know there's a few ME's that frequent the forums and I don't want to hear about how many pieces of analog equipment you have, etc.. I want to hear it from the clients!

Who do you dig? Do they give any feedback about your mix? Do they have good prices? Do they tell you you'll be the next Snorlax?

Piece

are you retarded or something lilwub

[AxeD]

I'd say about 70% of tracks sent to any mastering service aren't worth investing in yet.
After quite a few years I feel like I'm coming close to getting decent tracks, when the time comes I'll just leave it in the hands of engineers
I know personally. Also knew 2 good online services but they stopped now.

Compare it with painting, when is your stuff good enough to put it in a 150 quid frame?

[wub]

Who's Snorlax?

[AxeD]

Who's Snorlax?

[claudedefaren]

As in this guy?

https://soundcloud.com/snorlaxbass

he's fucking dope I've been following him and the other team supreme dudes for a while. jstein, carmack, djemba djemba..

[LilWUB]

Snorlax - you know, that kid with the funny hair that invented dubstep I'm just being silly y'all.

But I am looking for a decent mastering service. I know there's a compilation thread about who offers services but I wanted to know opinions on who is a good balance of price, quality, etc.

[Benji]

Compare it with painting, when is your stuff good enough to put it in a 150 quid frame?

That's a pretty bad analogy, if you made it, it would have a much greater centimental value and therefore would be worth framing, same with mastering your tracks, no?

[outbound]

Compare it with painting, when is your stuff good enough to put it in a 150 quid frame?

That's a pretty bad analogy, if you made it, it would have a much greater centimental value and therefore would be worth framing, same with mastering your tracks, no?

Think I've replied to something similar before. Everyone has different 'thresholds' for what they think is worth mastering. Some guys are sending it to labels for a release, some are the labels themselves. Some guys are keeping a track to themselves and are just wanting it to be presented in the best possible light as it has a certain (like you say) sentimental value to them.

Also regarding pice the difference in price points for mastering is huge. You get the guys right up top who will run your music through the finest gear money can buy with the most experienced ears in the industry. This will set you back hundreds + and at the other end of the scale you've got the guy who'll run it through ozone for a quid.

This range means that musicians have ever more choice in where to send their material, fair enough it may not be worth sticking that painting in a £150 frame but if there was a £50 frame which didn't look too much worse it may be justified.

My 2 cents

[LilWUB]

I just got a track mastered by the guy on FIVERR.COM ( http://fiverr.com/ycharb ) and I think he did a fine digital master for $5. He even warned me about an imbalance in my mix and allowed me to fix it before mastering. Definitely above and beyond five bucks.

Song is in my sig if you're curious.

[wolf89]

Erm no he didn't

[LilWUB]

Oh, I'm wrong?

[__________]

I think ol' Wolfy is disputing the quality of your 'fine' master. Without the source material it's kinda impossible to judge quality though.

IMO just slap a limiter on the master bus to get the levels up a bit. No point in proper mastering until it's being released or cut to dub.

[AxeD]

Compare it with painting, when is your stuff good enough to put it in a 150 quid frame?

That's a pretty bad analogy, if you made it, it would have a much greater centimental value and therefore would be worth framing, same with mastering your tracks, no?

Nah, basically just don't have your stuff mastered.

IMO just slap a limiter on the master bus to get the levels up a bit. No point in proper mastering until it's being released or cut to dub.

This. About 80% of the stuff that's being mastered shouldn't even leave the producers harddisk.
I mean, yeah if you just do it for fun and producing is like a hobby okay. But let's face it, all these people with their cracked daws
get their shit mastered before they even know if it's anywhere near decent and then hope it'll be picked up.

Garage bands should get their recordings mixed, bedroom producers shouldn't get stuff mastered. I believe most of them don't know what it actually is.