You guys are all idiots. This guy has been mastering for a YEAR!!! He knows what's up!!!

Personally, when someone says mastering I expect someone with kit I;d kill for (or at least swap my first born for) and an old, seriously experienced engineer with 25 years under their belt.

Don;t get me wrong - it's not all about equipment and you don;t have to have paid your dues just for the sake of it, but mastering is a skill that takes years to truly understand and very subtle techniqesto aceive sublime results.

yeah, the benchmark is nice, but just becuase your AD convserion is good, deosn;t mean the rest of your signal chain will support it.

I fucking hate KRK's and never heard a pair that I would consider using, let alone allow someone to master for me on. Also, if you don't have a volume control center, I'm pretty sure you're not calibrating your monitors or your signal chain and gain staging as a whole, and that I'm afraid, is mastering 101. How do you compare the tracks you master at different set and calibrated benchmarks? This is a essential part of mastering.

Joe, I don't want to sound negative and I commend you for putting your skills out there but a few (even top end plugins) a good DAC and some KRK's does not shout pro to me - it doesn't even shout project studio to me, it shouts bedroom studio.

There are at least a dozen guys on here with setups that could be used for mastering quite proficiently, and yours is really not one of them. I'm not saying you don't have what it takes as a person or engineer, just you don;t have what it takes in terms of equipment to make me think that you will be able to hear with more clarity than I can on my home setup.

You have to start somewhere. Right? But i think you should lower the prices or work for free to build your customers base. Because thats important in mastering. To have customers base.

And your ears are the most important thing in mastering but you need very good acoustics and monitoring to hear correctly. You should really forget any outboard gear and get good acoustics and mastering monitors. No KRK´s!!! And only these wont come cheap.

If you havent yet find this forum check it out, there is very good talk about mastering.

http://www.gearslutz.com/board/mastering-forum/

And final advice, you really shouldnt post pictures of your studio, because it is not helping you right now. When you finally get some outboard gear after acoustics and monitoring then take some pics. And make some mp3 samples in your website with and without mastering.

people like this degrade the whole industry making it harder for others to make an honest living because they have to compete with asshats that don't know what they are doing yet promise the same results. I suppose this is life.

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Originally posted by RichieV people like this degrade the whole industry making it harder for others to make an honest living because they have to compete with asshats that don't know what they are doing yet promise the same results. I suppose this is life.

Sounds familiar... kind of like the same thing the new crop of DJs turned "PROducers" are doing.

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