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Re: Re: pre/post mastered works
| quote: | Originally posted by cryophonik
I will say that you might be surprised to hear how little the mastered and unmastered versions differ. |
This is right. You may perceive this as even more discouraging, but that great sounding music you hear, most of it sounds that way when the producer is working on it.
Some people will say "don't compare your music to music that's been professionally mastered, since mastering is this black mystery box which can take the worst sounding, fuzzy, unbalanced, etc song and turn it into a masterpiece".
If there are major mix limitations/flaws, then maybe a mastering engineer can do a heap of processing and do the best they can to rectify some of the most glaring problems. But it's always going to be a band-aid, it won't sound anywhere near as good compared with if you'd fixed those issues at the mixing stage.
Yes, there are times when producing is extremely frustrating. It's frustrating listening to these fantastic sounds and not being at a stage where you can create those sounds yourself. However, there are hundreds of great trance producers out there who all aspired to make those sounds, who spent years in their studios learning how to make those sounds. There is no difference between a given fantastic producer and you, except for that experience - working out methods that work, methods that don't work.
Hundreds of people just like yourself are able to create these great sounding songs before they're mastered. Just keep learning and trying to improve every day, notice how much you're improving every few months, and have faith that you'll become one of these great producers.
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