Anybody know any tutorials/programs for mastering/mixing tracks. (Mastering is the main thing). It would be nice not to have to pay hundreds of dollars for somethin if I work at it that can be done in my home. Thanks for the future posts.
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Anybody know any tutorials/programs for mastering/mixing tracks. (Mastering is the main thing). It would be nice not to have to pay hundreds of dollars for somethin if I work at it that can be done in my home. Thanks for the future posts.
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Originally Posted by Lil'Kay
read the tutorials real great help found there on mastering and any other questions you got
First off lets get this straight, u can do mixing in your home, and you can pretty much learn about it and do the damn thing over time...
but mastering takes a special breed of person, and u tend NOT TO simply do mastering on all plug-ins....u need some hardware and some outboard effects to warm up the mix....its just that simple...
and neither of the 2..mixing or mastering is something u learn and are GOOD at in any short period of time.
.pz.
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Originally Posted by AlcaTrakz
well said ...
One of the Stickies in here's about a good deal on Masterin which may sound expensive to you if you wanted to Master your own tracks... but it is a good deal....
Unless you are an engineer you cannot master, period.
I agree on that mastering ordeal but you can get simple mastering which isn't fully considered 'mastering' but it still does its job. Just cop the Izotope Ozone 2 plugin and T-Racks24 prog and you can get an easy small pre-mastering and final mastering. Again it's not really the real 'mastering' but it's just small shit like a slight final compression on the overall mix and a blending present that blends everything together gives it a smoother easy listen vibe....levels shit it's nice jus read on it. Again though I recommend mixing on your own spare time...I mix my own tracks been mixing for about 6 years now in several diff. programs learning new shit. Try mixing though trust me it's worth it.
That Isnt Mastering
Get That Word Out Of Your Vocabulary
Jesus How Many Times Must I Say This!!!?
Did I not just say "Again it's not really the real 'mastering' but it's just small shit like a slight final compression on the overall mix and a blending present that blends everything together gives it a smoother easy listen vibe" damn son open ya fuckin eyes lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by Emerge
You can not master with t-tracks you have to get a program which
there is a program out that teaches you and lets you master it is I
believe called Ozone, many independed artist who do it themselves
master with this program ive heard and they sound pretty clean to me
And get the whole program of ozone it is a mastering program not
just some plug-ins that go with programs like cubase, or nuendo etc.
*breaks clark kent's anus in*
lol, that sounds homo
You needa go research more into T-Racks homie...really good prog aswell Ozone was bout to get into aswell son. But if you use both T-Racks and Ozone you can get somthin mad sick. I use Ozone for pre-mastering and T-Racks for the final mastering.Quote:
Originally Posted by Clark Kent
No if you are not an engineer you will not master anything but sucking cocks.
stfu
so your telling me that its no POSSIBLE WAY to master unless you are a professional engineer? psshh its many people in the business who master n have never taken any engineering classes if you know what sound you need to get you can POSSIBLY DO IT i not saying that anyone can do it but some may be able too, you might not get the PERFECT MASTER but for many it could be good enough
None of you can master, so forget about it.
And unless you are engineer you wont "MASTER" but you can get something that can sound good or OK but that is not mastering. And you dont have to go to school to be an engineer, atleast not a CONVENTIONAL school. Regardless, you can't master so you guys need to just focus on getting a good mix so that people can master that.
Emerge wtf you talkin about? What so your saying every professional engineer out there just went to school with no mixing experience and BAM they became professional like that? Nah uh...don't work like that...mabey it does with some but half the time before that they knew background of mixing...possibally did underground mixing such I do. Again like Clark Kent said I totally agree on. Just because it's not 'perfect' don't mean it's not gonna be nice.
/\You obviously misread/understood what I said.
to that clark kent dude..
Ozone 3 is a plug-in... lol..
n with T-Racks.. the furthest itll take u in the mastering process is prolly the pre-mastering..
n mastering takes years to learn..
Mastering's a College style course... and people still come out of the course with a pass mark and fail the fuck in the industry... still believe you can't "Learn" to master as such, you can learn How to master and the mechanics of Mastering... but if you havent got that genetic quality your not gonna be any good.
sounds like most of you guys dont even know wat MASTERING is..
Yo this is way late but hey.....it happens. Check this thread out which was pulled off the South African Hip-Hop Forum www.africasgateway.com:Quote:
Originally Posted by Clark Kent
"Have a look at this program. Its called Auto Audio Mastering and is so user friendly, even my 2 year olf niece Maya (God bless her) couldn't crash the system.
Check out this link for the 21 Day Trial Day period
www.curioza.com
You get the full program and can use it for 21 days, a trail period you can use in order to do the whole pay and registration thing...you know how software retail works.
I just finished using this baby last night and am using it today (Lost Scrolls needs mastering) and I must say personally I am very impressed with the work done. At first I thought maybe it was all psycological, but I then came to see that this program is actually an incredible resource to have, especially for upcoming producers and artists who have underground tracks that they cannot find Mastering Finance for.
The mastering quality is actually incredible and I endorse this program. It requires very little manual input, just select the source file (ie the file you want mastered, ie your track) and then select a reference file (the track you want it to sound like). AAM then matches the final track EQs, compression, Parametics and loudnesses of the Source track to the Reference file. For complete noobs to mastering such as myself, this is a matter of great aid. Your final mix will be produced to commercial levels and the quality is extraordinary.
Now for the word of caution. To even newer noobs than myself, do not expect the program to give your tracks "life" and "sparkle" if it was dead to start off with. Remember, programs such as this are not meant to be alchemists: If the input is sh*t, then the output will be better quality sh*t, but still sh*t non-the-less. This program is not meant to substitute the art of mixing the track yourself. That means that you are responsible for the individual effects, levels and EQs of the individual tracks that make up the final mix. If you stuff this up and don't get it right, don't expect the program to make the track your 2 year old cousin drooled out in the kitchen sound like a banger produced by Kanye! REMEMBER: THE PROGRAM WORKS WITHIN REASON!
Apart from that, if you know what you are doing in the mixing stage, the program is great for you if you would rather focus on the mastering side of the track. Just click, click and wait about 10 minutes per track (depending) while the program does its thing.
P.S. To even newer noobs than the new noobs mentioned above, I heard you exclaiming "10 MINUTES! SO LONG?" If is known that the longer the program takes to run the processes, the more thourough a jobs its doing....either that or your processor seriously needs an upgrade. This program chows 313MB of ram while it runs so that gives you an indication of the level of integrity of the work.
This has been a DarkBlood Primal Productions public service. Use this knowledge wisely!
Boom!"
fact - NO ONE HERE CAN MASTER.
sorry.
Mastering is not mixing ANYTHING. The term "mastering" is even used wrong in the industry 9 times out of 10. What we know as "mastering engineers" are really "premastering engineers". Mastering occurs before the product is mass duplicated. Its a physical process that takes place when it arrives in the place its pressed up at.
-No one here can even pre master.
-No plugin available is going to make you a mastering engineer.
-No mixing engineer that got some certificate from Full Sail or any other college is a mastering engineer.
-It takes decades to train your ear to the point were your READY to begin considering a mastering engineers role.
plugins are good if you need to "master" yourself to try and get a better sound, because you don't have the funds to go to a real mastering house. But dont fool yourself. Seriously, your not really mastering.
That's like me buying a camoflauge outfit and saying I'm a navy seal.
"That's like me buying a camoflauge outfit and saying I'm a navy seal."
OMFG!!! :laugh:
that was the best analogy in the history of analogies... oh god lmfao
word...I rememeber I fucked up one day and said i knew how to master and Merge got on my ass son...
LMMMMMMMFFFFFFAO at navy seal.. rotlmfao
but, as tax said, nunyall can't do shit
actually nobody here can lmao
tax can mix rather sexy though
he's been slackin lately... LAZY BUM!!!
i have...
hence the reason i havent been posting new stuff
that's what happens when you're a navy seal though
lmao....word...
tax owned this whole thread
no one here even has the means to create an enviroment suitable to master in.
son i got TRacks, Izotope and blankets on the walls PLUS a wireless mouse. fuck u talkin about dummy!?
oh word ^^
*pms opey for great deals*
lmao...so...I got a wireless mouse, keyboard....and LCD screen....
bitch...
lol...
you guys are lame
i got a computer on my dresser and a mic in tha closet
everyone knows you get better quality when your mics in a closet
or if its in a studio....
I said something about this in a different thread .. word to tax kids don't know what mastering is. It's mostly writing subcode p and q flags which are the markers your cd uses to skip to tracks and run timecode commands and shit..... the rest alot of the time is evening out the cd and making sure if you pull up a cd on the computer the TOC loads up and shit... word. It's more then just adding compression limiting and eq over the stereo mix =). pz.
exactly.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheUnderRated
good to see you payed attention in class. :2thumb:
word...I figured it was alot more complicated then what these niggas nowadays been talkin bout...
and doesnt CD Architect kinda do the marker thing...? I know when I put some tracks on there it does it...would that be some newbie type mastering...?
oh before I forget...yo Tax...do you know of any cd duplication companies that do mastering when they send you the cd's that you order...?