Mastering some techno today, after a few weeks of mixing albums, back to some straight up mastering.
Mastering electro today. Getting old skool productions to modern loudness levels is a challenge. Soft clipping and saturation in small amounts in stages is the way to do it as clean as possible. Here I'm using 3 stages of tube saturation, some transformer saturation, and some analog shunt limiting to shave down the transients, a little tightening up again in the mids on the Multicore just to keep the punch consistent. Tricky work.
Mastering a nice slab of techno today. Solid well out together mixes, so not a lot of correction. Just enhancing and embellishing depth and width. Tightening up the lows combining the Pultec trick on the Stereo Pultec with some dynamic punch from the Multicore acting on the lows only. Some colour and grunt from the stereo RS124. Top end was a little subdued so added nice silky clean and dynamic sparkle from the tube vitalizer doing extra magic with the coil filter array, and then a little push further from the air band on the TKlizer2 . The 20k and 25k on this thing is so clean and smooth, no harshness at all. Great EQ.
Some more electro from this double vinyl VA I am mastering. It's quite nice music to work with as it arrives not already squashed to death, unlike a lot of modern dance music, so it really responds well to, and gets most benefit from, all the lovely harmonic and dynamic character the outboard gives.
Mastering some lovely electro for vinyl today. The main thing with old skool style analog production is getting it up to modern loudness without killing the vibe, as the transients are often huge. So I'm doing a lot of soaking up of transients using various stages of saturation as soft clipping, gentle and stage by stage you get a clean reduction in dynamic and gain harmonic richness. Then tightening up the punch with the multiband to make sure the drums make it through the process without losing their snap.
And back to work after the birthday weekend. Nice solid dub techno that just eats up all the valve goodness.
Phase 2 of the studio rebuild/upgrade is finally complete. 1 month over the expected completion time, but under budget somehow. Technically I have to put the new super computer in there and set all that up, but that doesn't count, and I can't face
Phase 2 of the studio rebuild/upgrade is finally complete. 1 month over the expected completion time, but under budget somehow. Technically I have to put the new super computer in there and set all that up, but that doesn't count, and I can't face it right now 😀
Rearranged, rewired, new compressor integrated, better ventilation for all that valve heat. Didn't expect it to take a day tho...
Rearranged, rewired, new compressor integrated, better ventilation for all that valve heat. Didn't expect it to take a day tho...
SSL style compression but multiband? Rude not to.
SSL style compression but multiband? Rude not to.
Back to work after the hols, some clanking noisy industrial getting vinyl premasters. New toy for the rack arrives tomorrow.
Mastering some techno today, after a few weeks of mixing albums, back to some straight up mastering.
Mastering electro today. Getting old skool productions to modern loudness levels is a challenge. Soft clipping and saturation in small amounts in stages is the way to do it as clean as possible. Here I'm using 3 stages of tube saturation, some tra
Mastering a nice slab of techno today. Solid well out together mixes, so not a lot of correction. Just enhancing and embellishing depth and width. Tightening up the lows combining the Pultec trick on the Stereo Pultec with some dynamic punch from
Some more electro from this double vinyl VA I am mastering. It's quite nice music to work with as it arrives not already squashed to death, unlike a lot of modern dance music, so it really responds well to, and gets most benefit from, all the lovely
Mastering some lovely electro for vinyl today. The main thing with old skool style analog production is getting it up to modern loudness without killing the vibe, as the transients are often huge. So I'm doing a lot of soaking up of transients usin
And back to work after the birthday weekend. Nice solid dub techno that just eats up all the valve goodness.
Phase 2 of the studio rebuild/upgrade is finally complete. 1 month over the expected completion time, but under budget somehow. Technically I have to put the new super computer in there and set all that up, but that doesn't count, and I can't face Rearranged, rewired, new compressor integrated, better ventilation for all that valve heat. Didn't expect it to take a day tho... SSL style compression but multiband? Rude not to.
Back to work after the hols, some clanking noisy industrial getting vinyl premasters. New toy for the rack arrives tomorrow.