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BEFORE & AFTER mastering
Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 11:10 pm
by ramadanman
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
Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 11:30 pm
by ozeb
David - thanks for sharing this... It's a bloody walking advertisement for Transition... crystal clear results!!
Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 12:01 am
by ramadanman
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

Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 5:51 pm
by fullyrecordingz
Kool sounds nang
Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 6:37 pm
by dogdaze
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

Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 9:04 pm
by gravious
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!
Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 11:35 pm
by kion
*note to self - must.start.booking.some.sessions.
Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 2:45 pm
by ramadanman
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
Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 4:41 pm
by decem
how much did it cost you?
Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 9:56 pm
by frostyljd
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
Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 11:28 pm
by gravious
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.
Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 1:05 am
by ramadanman
decem wrote:how much did it cost you?
£60 / hour - 2 tracks got done in 1 hour.
Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 1:54 am
by chef wigabu
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!
Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 4:22 am
by ztone
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..
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 9:58 am
by masstronaut
Nice examples.
Original = 'heavy'. Mastered = 'shower'.
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 11:46 am
by dionysus
Stuart Hawkes at Metropolis

Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 4:56 pm
by wil blaze
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