RPM08 Mastering?

[Gert van Santen]

Michael Zacherl schreef:
  > Nevertheless I think I can put it 
much simpler:
> If I did a contribution to something like RPM and my piece (for the  
> sake of Paul's peace I don't call it a "tune" ;-) demands (read: I  
> want it that way) at some points an absolutely dry sound with no sort  
> of delay, reverb or such, I just don't want anybody to put reverb on it.
> Same with compression: a couple of days ago I invested some serious  
> effort into a piece where I wanted to find out how much final  
> compression I want (in  this case how much "pumping" (?) I want  
> deliberately).
> Which leads me to the explanation why I probably shouldn't contribute  
> to something like RPM since the genres are way to apart to be on a  
> single compilation-CD.

Of course adding reverb is (as far as I 
am concerned), not something I often do 
when mastering. The whole trick of 
mastering is - in my eyes - making a 
track sound better, without making it 
sound different. Oh, well...

> Furthermore that's a reason why I consider the mastering of something  
> like the RPM titles not an easy job!
> 
> On a side note, today I asked Eric to digitise my "Oxygen" vinyl for  
> me (I don't own a turntable) in order to be able to hear the  
> differences of the mastering.
> (I wasn't able to listen to it for a very long time, but own several  
> CDs and the recent "Live in Your Living Room")
> I explicitly asked for an untouched, uncompressed version just that  
> what came from the record player's pre-amp through the A/D-converter.
> I'm pretty curious what's the result going to be!

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