the advantage of mastering in a different room, is the acoustic and listening situation
and a different pair of ears.
nicholas
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mastering engineers generally have more accurate rooms (or that used to be the case)
and as or more importantly, a different sounding room.
so you don't eq to your own room's acoustic problems twice.
with 875 million clowns with a DAW in a room at home, and over 50% of those saying
they can master, it's easy to not know what a real mastering professional can and does do.
it's worth the effort to find one and pay the extra bucks...
look at the difference in dollars (euros, yen, whatever...)
then ask what percentage would that add to the total project budget ?
but when the client decides to have some one master it a clown who will do it
for 25 - 50 bucks a song often gets the gig, but has not the monitoring environment
or the optimum "rig" ...not to mention refined ears and the knowledge of experience.
i speak in general here so don't be pissed or offended, this is not an attack at anyone
in particular or in general, it's just an observation of the situation.
i will say i hate most of what passes as mastering these days.
ya gotta love it when there is the money and sense to send to one of the
big guys that have been doin' it for years...usually label work will do that
i have a short list of people in town i like, one at most price points,
and recommend one of those according to the max budget i can coax for mastering
i wish i had a copy of that rate card from the eighties, can't remember the mastering house.
it was in L.A. i think
Rates: $175.00 per Hr.
$250.00 per Hr. with client present
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