Mastering for commercial releases (EQ and all that)

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Re: Mastering for commercial releases (EQ and all that)

Post by simonsko » Fri Jan 24, 2014 1:08 am

His name is David Nelson, from Inverness, Scotland. Not very famous, but he's done some pretty nice music.
I found him on Youtube where he demonstrated a pretty elaborate home-made record lathe. His Youtube and Soundcloud account names are both "pentlandsound".

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Re: Mastering for commercial releases (EQ and all that)

Post by Stéphane Ascoët » Tue Jan 28, 2014 9:15 am

simonsko wrote:or even go as far as sending it to a vinyl pressing plant? How do I need to prepare my tracks for such formats, if needed? I would prefer if you could separate each answer from each other, and if possible, give a step for step guide. Thanks in advance!
I don't undestand where is the interest is in doing a vinyl from a digital sound capture :(

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Re: Mastering for commercial releases (EQ and all that)

Post by waxcylinder » Tue Jan 28, 2014 11:21 am

Stéphane Ascoët wrote:
simonsko wrote:or even go as far as sending it to a vinyl pressing plant? How do I need to prepare my tracks for such formats, if needed? I would prefer if you could separate each answer from each other, and if possible, give a step for step guide. Thanks in advance!
I don't undestand where is the interest is in doing a vinyl from a digital sound capture :(
You'd be surprised - there's several companies doing that (given the current renaissance of vinyl among the young) 8-)

I don't see the point either, as I don't believe in "vinyl warmth" (which mostly comes from distortion from the cart and the pre-amp imvho) - but if that's what folks want ... :?

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Re: Mastering for commercial releases (EQ and all that)

Post by Stéphane Ascoët » Sat Feb 08, 2014 2:46 pm

kozikowski wrote: Some classical performances don't do that.
And they're right :D

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