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Originally posted by DeZmA how could you possibly spend that much time on mastering?? I believe you mean mixing?

That could be the case yes. Have I interpreted the terms wrong all these years ?

I mean this : Making it sound good on every stereo I can get my hands on, car radio, kitchen radio (or screaming babies as I like to call them argh). And as mistery said, days is a maximum of an hour or two. I go to uni and I have to work at night so I can buy food, I can't produce if I don't eat (I die) I think that's mixing then .. is mastering only EQ'ing ? I don't master then lol, well I do, but I do that while making the track.. I mean the proces where I fix my song so it sounds how it sounded in my speakers, everywhere (which is never the case after my first take). That process, I figured was mastering .. maybe it's mixing then Makes more sence yes if you call it mixing .. but I also tweak the EQ a bit .. so maybe it's both ? Enlighten me !

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Originally posted by BelgianGuru And as mistery said, days is a maximum of an hour or two. I go to uni and I have to work at night so I can buy food, I can't produce if I don't eat (I die)

It's not just a time related issue for me either. If I spend more than 4 hours on the track at once I start to lose the focus on the "big picture" and get lost in tweaking stuff that doesn't really matter. Producing is always wise to do with "fresh ears".

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True also, but if I have the time producing 8 hours straight, I will do it, simply because I can't stop I'll work on more then one track then though. But yes, the day after what used to sound so great, suddenly sounds like sjiet !

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Originally posted by BelgianGuru the text above o_O

I consider mastering as doing some processes to increase the loudness of a track (limiting and multi-band-compressing) and some fine-tuning processes

I don't get it, if it sounds good on monitors or hq headphones you won't change things if it sounds crappy on some low end stereo
I do check things on several systems but mostly if it sounds right on moni's it IS right (which makes sense doesn't it )

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Well you see, my botty can't afford monitors. Well I can now, I'm getting a pair next month, yiha ! That's the only reason why it takes me longer I think.

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