I once had a professionally mastered CD. On the CD, it proudly stated something like this:
"Mastered by *****. Audio signal not passed through any processing device, such as a compressor, at any point in the production or mastering of this disc." Amazing isn't it? :-) On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Hartmut Noack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > D. Michael McIntyre schrieb: > > On Tuesday 19 February 2008, Karlheinz Noise wrote: > >> And that's assuming modern artists are interested at all. The future of > >> music resides in bedroom musicians. How many of them want to pay $2000 > just > >> to have someone master their mixes, when they can do a crappy job with > >> their LADSPA plugins (or cracked VST's) for free? > >> > >> I know I don't. > > > > Hear hear! Three cheers for the crappy free mixing job! It's crappy, > but > > it's FREE! > > > Yeahhh! hooray to those who value their fun and freedom higher than so > called "standards" made up by people who need a reason to charge big > money for helping to meet them. > > "Oh yes, people! We invested sooo much for our professional hi-end > equipment - there must be a reason we have spent all the money. Thus we > and we only can make a good sounding record!" > > > 90% of the best sounding records are made with equipment that would be > called outdated today. Where were the realtime-vsts as Todd Runtgren > made "Wave" with the Patti Smith Group? What about Laurie Andersons "Big > Science? what about The Stooges? Get the record (I mean the real thing > in black 12"), listen to "1969", "No Fun" or "We will fall" and you know > how the sound of a record can help to make music a classic. > > Plus: set everything else aside there are 2 things that make a good > record: > > 1.) good, dedicated musicians. > 2.) enough time to do the right thing and to weed out the 2nd-best of > moments. > > With these 2 ingrediences you can record a classic and even a top-20-hit > with equipment for not much more then 1000 Euros. > And with free software only. > > > I mean it ;-) > > HZN/Berlin > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFHvFIk1Aecwva1SWMRAuftAJ48OFzg3Gx9RcsIB0qRRb3zLa8ojACcDJ6G > uK6pV4scP2MwH2lrtlEJEnM= > =doQl > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list > Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users > -- Christopher Stamper [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tinyurl.com/2ooncg Skype: cdstamper
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