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What do you do to get ready for the master besides get the best possible mix?
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If I know I'm getting something mastered, I take my all my "pretend mastering" plugins off the 2 bus.
For me personally, I'm a believer in mastering while I mix. I've been burned by mastering engineers in the past who have destroyed my mixes. Basically, the extreme compression that a mastering engineer will use causes all sorts of things to popup....usually mud, multilated kick drums, etc. So, about 2/3 through a mix I'll start slowly pull down the threshold on the compressor or limiter.
If I knew someone else was going to master it, I would take all that crap off when the mix was finished and see where that got me. Of course, I always like to take all the 2bus stuff off and listen anyway just make sure nothing too stupid is going on.
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what fidelity? 44.1/48/192, etc
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You mean, "what sample rate?". There is no direct correlation between sample rate and fidelity / sound quality. I know mega mega badass dudes who swear that 48 sounds best to their ears.
If you are mixing in the box, I like the idea of staying at 44.1Khz the entire time. Sample rate conversion is one of the most destructive audio processes. If you are mixing on a console, this is different. You are in the analog domain and there is no sample rate conversion...just another Digital to Analog to Digital conversion.
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I've only gotten one cd mastered and it was by Brad Blackwood at Euphonic Masters.
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How did that turn out, dude? Where you really happy with it? What are your thoughts about your mixes being mastered? Personally, I think that mastered music sounds worse on my studio monitors but better everywhere else (I guess I'm used to hearing mastered music).
Brandon