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Originally Posted by brandondrury
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
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It was my first recording so it was way more my fault than the mastering engineer's. I tend to like my mixes pretty bright (think a tad less than John Feldman's stuff) and after mastering, a lot of the highs got SUCKED out, the mids got pushed, and the kick sounded funny. The compression on the mixes was a lot smoother and more subtle than I was doing, and the mastered finals were LOUD. It provided the "glue" to really make it sound like a record, but after mixing it for so damn long it made me kinda sad to see all my hard work of automating and perfecting dynamics was all for nothing...but I guess that's just the way modern music goes. It was rock/pop/full band stuff BTW.
Also, there's a lot of debates on recording forums regarding sample rates, but the mastering engineers Ive talked with will accept whatever you recorded at since they have the highest quality converters known to Man.