I do agree with what you say.....but the real point I was trying to make in
the beginning was that not everything requires mastering.If a band is having
a short run CD of say 200 copies made,mastering is not real important as
they will give most of these away.Now if you are making a large run of 5000
CDs then yes get the money and master it properly.




Scott Dorsey wrote in message
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Troy wrote:

Sorry to say but in most cases now a days with short run releases and low
to
non existant budgets you are not an affordable piece of the puzzle.Most
bands have a hard enough time paying to get CDs made and I think thats
way
more important than spending money on mastering.

Yes, but often good musicians and a good studio are also not affordable
pieces of the puzzle.

If you aren't at least going to _try_ to do it right, why do it at all?

You have to make due with what you can afford and if you have to use a
****
mic on a guitar than so be it as a good engineer can make anything sound
good.

Sure, but that's not free either.
--scott

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