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GrahamC Advanced Member
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Posted - 2015/04/16 : 15:19:24
Got my 25 years of Dougal CD today, was reading the sleeve and it says 'Engineered by Slipmatt' - what does it mean when it says he engineered it?
Samination Advanced Member
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Posted - 2015/04/16 : 15:47:27
basicly the guy who makes sure the track(s) are outputed/made as good as possible. Either for making it clean sounding, or for max loudness (listen to Metallica's St Anger for one of the worst exampled of loudness war mastering)
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Audio Warfare Advanced Member
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Posted - 2015/04/16 : 15:49:30
It's a strange word to use on an album as Engineered by and mastered by mean two very different things. I can't see how you can engineer an album really?
Engineered by - In terms of a track this is generally the person that build the final draft of the track and mixed it down. Sometimes from an early draft from the producer or sometimes from their ideas.
Mastered by - This would be the person that took the final mixed down track and added any post processing - generally final compression, EQ, etc. to make it balanced against other tracks. A proper mastering studio will have higher end equipment and different acoustics to the average producer's studio. In theory anyway, they may just have more experience in some cases.
So I'd guess they do mean mastered by as you can also master a mix?
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Hard2Get Advanced Member
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Posted - 2015/04/16 : 18:13:29
I suppose they just meant master engineering.
Guest Advanced Member
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Posted - 2015/04/17 : 02:11:06
dougal produced the tracks in his DAW, exported them to wav, slipmatt mastered them for the final audio that ends up in the shop
software studio`s like ozone are all abit crap, without all the modern 48,000hz hardware and biz niz
Impulse_Response Advanced Member
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Posted - 2015/04/17 : 04:58:12
quote:Originally posted by Guest:
dougal produced the tracks in his DAW, exported them to wav, slipmatt mastered them for the final audio that ends up in the shop
software studio`s like ozone are all abit crap, without all the modern 48,000hz hardware and biz niz
I'm all for having good equipment, but I'm not convinced that software studios are crap or that you need to spend huge amounts on hardware to get good sound. I have a $250 Focusrite interface and it delivers perfectly clear sound, and I have heard plenty of excellent tunes produced 100% with software. I think a lot of hardware fetish has it foundations in marketing, and I think worrying too much about hardware is a distraction from learning to use whatever you have (including software) and using it well.
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Producers and record labels, please stop "loudness war" mastering everything. It sounds terrible.
Audio Warfare Advanced Member
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Posted - 2015/04/17 : 10:13:20
quote:Originally posted by Advather:
quote:Originally posted by Guest:
dougal produced the tracks in his DAW, exported them to wav, slipmatt mastered them for the final audio that ends up in the shop
software studio`s like ozone are all abit crap, without all the modern 48,000hz hardware and biz niz
I'm all for having good equipment, but I'm not convinced that software studios are crap or that you need to spend huge amounts on hardware to get good sound. I have a $250 Focusrite interface and it delivers perfectly clear sound, and I have heard plenty of excellent tunes produced 100% with software. I think a lot of hardware fetish has it foundations in marketing, and I think worrying too much about hardware is a distraction from learning to use whatever you have (including software) and using it well.
TBH you can make an amazing sounding track that's fully mastered with nothing more than a PC and DAW. Having other stuff can help you improve things and make the whole process easier sure but none of it is necessary these days.
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Guest Advanced Member
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Posted - 2015/04/17 : 11:45:44
you need a pci-e for midi latency if all of your card I/O`s are going to a hardware mixer, then the processors on them are studio processors which you have in hardware mixers, and the rest is static free etc
so, i have never really looked into them, but all the I/O`s could have a independant processor like cuda graphic code to process each channel, which would make Ozone better with a I/O wrapper like ASIO using the hardware I/O`s
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