not sure what you mean by "protecting" but when it comes to mastering, it's not your job. dont do it, you'll most likely do it wrong and overcompress the shit out of everything and ruin the production you spent a long time on. I send all my tracks to labels unmastered & so does maher.


if for some reason you want to release it yourself or something and are looking for an engineer:

www.tdmastering.com he's in montreal is giving great rates to new guys.

send yourself a registered letter with your work on cd. it will not copyright your work, but it will give you a legal leg to stand on if it is stolen before it is signed.

don't open the letter obviously

required reading:

http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-42/index.html

good luck, use google.

Good mastering work in MTL :

mastering@intertechrecords.com

His name is Alex, great guy.

copyright in theory and practice are 2 very different things.

THe letter myth has never stood up in court. When it comes down to it, who ever made the track big first will win the lawsuit unless you file criminal charges which will get you absolutely nothing and you will have to pay for the laywer knowing that. Even then , you have to have alot of evidence that a court will even bother. YOu also can't copyright much of what EDM is. Most EDM melodies would not be considered a melody by most musicologists, and the other thing is words. Anything else is fair game to copy. The days of copyright infringement are over. Every new track is just some permutation on an old with new production. And since you can't copyright production, then ya, you don't really have anything to go by.

IN terms of mastering, if you don't know what you are doing, get someone else. Lots of people master their own tracks. Don't pay for it and don't go for those 20$ a track guys. Basically the label should be footing the bill. IF they don't, don't bother with the label. If no MAstering is just not as important as it once was considering you don't have to worry about record grooves, most people listen on their ipods. It will not make your track good. It might take it from a 7 to a 9. Also get someone in your genre.

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for the record if anyone thinks mailing something to yourself will stop anyone from sampling you or claiming your work as their own, you are going to be very disappointed. people are gonna swagger jack you constantly. I actually did it to somebody intentionally hoping to get caught.

unless you think it's worth hiring an intellectual property lawyer in the country where whatever label released the stolen track is based, over someone taking your hi hat. if so, you have bigger issues to worry about than "protecting" your music.

whatever bassline, melody, drum pattern you're doing, someone else has done it before you.
just do you and make the music you feel and all will be good. it's just house music after all. express yourself.

and did you get caught?

quote:

Originally posted by Casa whatever bassline, melody, drum pattern you're doing, someone else has done it before you. just do you and make the music you feel and all will be good. it's just house music after all. express yourself.

this!!

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