Is this guy for real?

tomelex said:

Originally Posted by tomelex

I think I have said before mastering is probably 99% of what makes any recording sound good in any genre or format, mastering is where we make that all important illusion attempt.


So you have no issues with auto-tune and its equivalents, compressors-limiters,digital effects for ambience-reverb or other DAW plugins, etc
Let alone ADC, how mixed, etc.

My context is that mastering is far from being 99% of what makes any recording sound good, maybe a different way to look at it is that mastering can screw up a good recording or make them shine.

Cheers
Orb


Hi, I answered that post in post 191 and you were right to call me out on it, as I said I was just popping in a quick post and did not really say what I know.

However, while one can get a pretty good sound with no processing ( I have done it lots of times with my digital recorder and two mics), a lot of the pop music and what not and even stuff from the sixties and earlier, those echo rooms that the singers sang in to get reverb, etc, and compressors etc do have their place in recordings, as you know, they are needed when you are mixing different mic'ed things, such as a drum set, if you just feed that sound from a mic into my digital recorder (just mic the drum set), plain old two channel stereo has some issues with making it sound quite right and doing some processing will make it sound "more real" in stereo....just sayin that simple mic does not always produce the most realistic illusion in stereo. Stereo can use some help sometimes depending on the format etc.

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DaveyF said:

I never thought I would say this...BUT I am seriously considering listening to the new AP productions of.....Dean Martin In my youth, the mere mention of this guy would elicit some very strange looks and even stranger thoughts, LOL. When you grow up with Black Sabbath, Uriah Heep, Hawkwind, Budgie, Led Zep, Pink Floyd etc., then Dean Martin isn't in the vocab. Now, i just appreciate ALL music and styles...Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra to Linkin' Park and even Creed....sounds good, I'm all in.

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DaveyF said:

I never thought I would say this...BUT I am seriously considering listening to the new AP productions of.....Dean Martin

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DaveyF said:

I never thought I would say this...BUT I am seriously considering listening to the new AP productions of.....Dean Martin In my youth, the mere mention of this guy would elicit some very strange looks and even stranger thoughts, LOL. When you grow up with Black Sabbath, Uriah Heep, Hawkwind, Budgie, Led Zep, Pink Floyd etc., then Dean Martin isn't in the vocab. Now, i just appreciate ALL music and styles...Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra to Linkin' Park and even Creed....sounds good, I'm all in.

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Joe Galbraith said:

Bruce-

Remember what they say about opinions: They are like ******ES. Everybody has one. Personally good R2R playback engages me on an emotional level far better than high-resolution files do, and I have both playback options available to me.

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