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GAH!! I know! I'm really not making myself clear I'm trying to help, believe it or not. I want it to go well, I have done the same thing myself and know how it is.

The bloke said about improving his service in future, which says he's serious about it. People *will* ask and would rather have a straight answer - no matter what that answer is - than 'magician' guff. That's all I'm trying to say.

I'll wish him luck again and shut up now

EDIT: Jeez I read like a miserable old bastard in here don't I Sorry chaps. Best intentions... poor delivery.

Ahhh.... you know what I am getting at.

Bear in mind that I started posting in this thread at a time when I thought my main eq was dead which would explain the grumpiness

Hahaha, ok, I'll come clean so you can all laugh at me...


I was distraught, having rereacked all my gear and re set my room and done everything (alllmost done, huge upgrades going on ) , the eq just wouldn't turn on. Totally dead. Drove to the nearest supplier to get the specialist fuses it takes as I assumed the fuse had gone. Tried 8 different fuses, still dead. Power cable, must be. No. Tried 3 different power cables, all working fine in other gear, damn thing still won't turn on.

Two days of emails back and forth to the manufacturer in Denmark, my UK supplier and so on, the designer telling me the thing can 'take some serious violence' before it failed, and he's never had a single on returned due to failure.

Several emails later, in frustration, I set it all up and just twisted the knobs in annoyance.

The eq is fine.

Turns out the power light bulb has blown.

hahahahahahaha

its an easy mistake to make macc

Macc wrote:Hahaha, ok, I'll come clean so you can all laugh at me...


I was distraught, having rereacked all my gear and re set my room and done everything (alllmost done, huge upgrades going on ) , the eq just wouldn't turn on. Totally dead. Drove to the nearest supplier to get the specialist fuses it takes as I assumed the fuse had gone. Tried 8 different fuses, still dead. Power cable, must be. No. Tried 3 different power cables, all working fine in other gear, damn thing still won't turn on.

Two days of emails back and forth to the manufacturer in Denmark, my UK supplier and so on, the designer telling me the thing can 'take some serious violence' before it failed, and he's never had a single on returned due to failure.

Several emails later, in frustration, I set it all up and just twisted the knobs in annoyance.

The eq is fine.

Turns out the power light bulb has blown.

Ahh gutted man haha

just got 1 back from snipaz...

top notch job

fuzz_2k wrote:just got 1 back from snipaz...

top notch job

i'm interested in sending a few tracks to an ME myself on the regular-ish, are you able to PM me A/B example clips of this? (i say PM me so as to avoid alienating anybody about their skills publicly?)

i'm sure snipaz now has more than enough tunes on his plate before i could get a look in with mine this month on his free trial

cheers

fuzz_2k wrote:just got 1 back from snipaz...

top notch job

Yeah they sound pretty fucking good, especially considering it's free

Can I still jump on this at the end of the week?

Get back to your pipe and slippers macc!

so then macc, what mastering equipment do you use?
I aint gonna tell you what equipment i use so you can then go & buy it youselves.

sounds to me like someones a bit jealous that i can offer a free service that you might have to charge for. Why would anyone use your service when you treat competition in such a childish way

there really are some stnuc on this forum

Dj Snipaz wrote: so then macc, what mastering equipment do you use?

I use Klein and Hummel O300 monitors in a highly treated room, in combination with Sennheiser HD600s with a StefanArt Equinox cable. All monitoring is fed by a Benchmark DAC-1.

For processing I use a combination of hardware and software, with Mytek conversion. Hardware-wise I’m using a Gyratec G14 stereo tube equaliser, a Summit DCL-200, Avalon 747VTSP and tfpro P38. In software I use mainly UAD and Voxengo plugins, I won’t bore you by listing them all.

It’s all up, in public, on our website. Like it is on every other mastering site. This is kind of the point that I was trying to make to you

I aint gonna tell you what equipment i use so you can then go & buy it youselves.

Then I see my point hasn’t been made.

sounds to me like someones a bit jealous that i can offer a free service that you might have to charge for. Why would anyone use your service when you treat competition in such a childish way

I think you’ve missed my point man. Admittedly, I put it in a rather grumpy way and I apologise for that, but if you re-read it a little more calmly I hope you’ll see the point I was trying to make. It might seem odd that I might want to help ‘competition’ but I don’t see it that way at all. I was trying to help.

You asked about improving your service, and I just wanted to point out that giving people straight answers is a good start. Some people don't care, but other people*will* ask you, and dodging questions looks bad. That’s all I was saying. Every single ME I know of will talk to you about their gear and procedures until the cows come home because they have nothing to hide, and know that the real ‘magic’ isn’t in some fancy hardware or a fancy plugin, but in the ears, the experience, and the monitoring. You can’t buy experience and wisdom, or get them from a book.

On another note, I don’t think I need to point out (but I am going to anyway ) that I go a long way out of my way to help anyone I am able to, on this and several other forums. While my delivery was a bit grumpy here, this was done in the same spirit. Hopefully at some point you’ll get that I was trying to help.

there really are some stnuc on this forum

Oi, now steady on, there's no need for that. When you’ve calmed down a bit I hope you’ll get what I was trying to say.

Again, I know I was somewhat grumpy but I really mean it. Openness and transparency will get you a lot further than secrecy and making out there’s ‘magic’ involved. Best of luck.

ok then
i see the point you were trying to make. I appriciate that you are trying to help. but at the moment i am still learning. I have received only positive feedback about the tunes i have mastered so far & at this moment in time i dont feel confident enough to tell people what equipment i am using.

I ensure you, that the comment about "magic" was meant in a metaphorical sence, i thought that it would have been obvious.

Once my equipment is final, i will have no problems tellin anyone what i'm using. but at the moment i'm still in the process of learning what's needed.

& finally. your original post, did come across as a bit out of hand.
All i am trying to do, is to play around with as many different genres as possible to try and improve my style. I have already mastered tracks that are to be released, & i have not asked for any form of payment other than the freedom to master the tunes. I think that this is extremely fair. the only kind of payment i ask for is that of my experience.

I apologize for my perhaps hard worded opinion in my last post. But if you don't want to come across in this way, have some consideration about the way you speak to people who are only trying to better their skills, after all, that is the whole point of the production forum

Dj Snipaz wrote:ok then
i see the point you were trying to make. I appriciate that you are trying to help. but at the moment i am still learning. I have received only positive feedback about the tunes i have mastered so far & at this moment in time i dont feel confident enough to tell people what equipment i am using.

I understand. I don't agree, but I understand.

I ensure you, that the comment about "magic" was meant in a metaphorical sence, i thought that it would have been obvious.

Kind of - but in combination with the unwillingness to answer direct questions it came across as some kid who bought a fancy plugin and found the 'smiley eq and loud' preset.

Once my equipment is final, i will have no problems tellin anyone what i'm using. but at the moment i'm still in the process of learning what's needed.

Again I don't agree at all, but I can understand. Have more confidence

Oh, and 'final'? Mate.... gearlust never ends. There is no final

& finally. your original post, did come across as a bit out of hand.
All i am trying to do, is to play around with as many different genres as possible to try and improve my style. I have already mastered tracks that are to be released, & i have not asked for any form of payment other than the freedom to master the tunes. I think that this is extremely fair. the only kind of payment i ask for is that of my experience.

Absolutely - as I say I've been there and I know how it is. I was unofficially-but-regularly doing stuff for free for about 3-4 years, already having had a few professional mixing jobs, before starting to charge so stick with it man. You'll make a lot of mistakes and kick yourself about them, but it all goes on the experience pile... that process never stops.

I apologize for my perhaps hard worded opinion in my last post. But if you don't want to come across in this way, have some consideration about the way you speak to people who are only trying to better their skills, after all, that is the whole point of the production forum

'Perhaps hard worded' - you called me a tnuc

Anyway, this is probably the one time (I think!) that I haven't been as cordial and polite as I usually try to be. I took exception to the magician comment and disagree with that approach - in my eyes people have a right to expect an answer to a direct question, and that's all I have been getting at. But disagreeing is not necessarily a reason for me to be rude, and I apologise for that.

Oh, and PMs by the way.

Sick sended you a tune :p

Extremely impressed with the job you did on my tune "Yes Or No". First tune on my myspace if anyone needs an example of Dj Snipaz mastering skills!

http://www.myspace.com/kidsimple