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On 2004-07-01 said:
every last dB out of his recordings. How do I explain this to
him in such a way that he will see the point? Help! The quick
answer is you can't, find someone else who gets it. It takes quite
a lot to change the aural preferences of someone who has been
squashing the crap out of all of their audio for a while. I say
this because, after 17 years in broadcast, I was pretty invested in
gain reduction. Anything NOT squished just didn't sound right to me.
It took me a number of YEARS to allow the preference for squished
audio to empty out of my ear. I still have rebound bouts and need
to be vigilant about it. The fact that you can't hear the artifacts
may mean you are just too far down the path yourself.
Be careful. The final mix will be around for a long time.
tHIs isn't like you've been hauled into an emergency room and need
lifesaving procedures and must submit yourself to the process even if
you don't normally care for this physician and his methods. You have
the control here, you're cutting the checks.

Choose someone who gets your idea.

I did some low budget mastering at a friend's place back in Iowa.
THis guy has an excellent facility with many different types of
nearfields and a good pair of Yuri boxes soffit mounted. I enjoy
using his room but am always reminding him that we're not going to
noramlize and we're not going to run it through his compressor plug-in
chances are. WE"ll listen as we transfer from dat and see what we
think, and usually we're going to err on the side of caution. tHese
clients of mine may have been low budget but I tried to record their
music with its dynamics intact, I endeavor to mix so that the softer
mellower piece is still at a comfortable listening level but the
differnce is apparent between it and the next tune which is supposed
to be a bit louder and more in your face. My objective is that you
don't have to keep fiddling with the volume control on your playback
system while experiencing the music as it was meant to be experienced.

FUnny thing, this guy could switch gears fine for me, but I was
present during the sessions. IF you can't communicate this to your
mastering guy look around and don't submit your material to the
process until you're comfortable with whomever you choose.

Richard Webb,
Electric SPider Productions, New Orleans, La.
REplace anything before the @ symbol with elspider for real email

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