RPM - Mastering

[Martin Naef]

On 21.02.2012 7:24, deeplfo wrote:
> Can we set Sunday to get our tracks to Martin?

The earlier, the better - and early tracks might get more love than 
last-minutes ones. Keep in mind that I'm on GMT+1 time. My junior 
usually goes to bed around 9pm, which imposes an early end to mastering 
on the speakers.

I know, I'm putting pressure on, but I have to be realistic about what I 
can offer.

On the technical side: Please consider the usual rules for mastering:

- Make it sound as good as possible at mix-down.

- Absolutely no limiting please, and only apply bus compression if you 
really must... I'll try to make the whole album as consistent as 
reasonably possible, so highly compressed sources might just end up with 
the volume turned down.

- 24bit sources preferred. I should be able to read FLAC compressed 
audio (I just upgraded to the latest Samplitude version, hence I now get 
native FLAC support).

Bye
Martin