Summary: Will master your songs in exchange for promo, will bump thread at regular intervals when I have time to master new songs. Please read all of post for rules.
Ok a bit about my history, I used to run an online mastering company. I didn’t get enough work to go full time but it made a nice supplemental income as well as boosting my audio skills. I have 10 years experience working with audio, have mastered tracks for artists across multiple genres (many that have been released), used to charge £25 a track and this was my setup:-
Monitoring
K&H O300’s
Benchmark DAC1
Outboard
RME ADI-2
SSL Buss-Comp Clone
ITB
UAD,
Various other plugins
Now I’ve simplified my setup, I run completely ITB with my Benchmark DAC1 and Sennheiser HD600’s. I want to get into doing a little mastering again but realize that it’s hard to get a lot of credit with my “minimal setup”, however… I feel I can still do a decent job.
What I want is to build up a portfolio of masters with this new setup as proof that I can still operate on a “limited” setup.
I will post in this thread occasionally to offer mastering of one of your tracks for no monetary cost. In return I ask that you tell people who mastered your track e.g if you post it on Facebook (you don’t need to go out and start shouting it from the rooftops! Also you don’t have to put a “mastered by” every time you promote your track, just once is nice).
This will also cost you (applies to all accounts you are registered with):-
x1 Facebook like
x1 Soundcloud follow
x1 Youtube Subscribe
x1 Twitter follow
These are for my alias accounts. I’m asking for this because as well as building a portfolio I am in the later stages of finishing an album and am trying to give the following a little push leading up to release. I think it’s a fair trade off, liking a couple of accounts takes what a couple of minutes? compared to the 30-60 minutes it will take to master your song.
As well as my own promo for my music I will be posting more information on things like mixing and mastering on these accounts
Requirements
I don’t think posting tracks in here would be a great move, it could get pretty convoluted, instead please just PM me with an unmastered track that you want mastering. If you’ve had tracks mastered before you should be familiar with the format required:-
Contact
In the PM put a link to the unmastered track from a site like Mediafire, dropbox etc. Tell me the info you need like references etc and tell me the name you used to like/follow the accounts mentioned before.
If I like a song to work with I will message back to let you know that it’s been picked and give a rough timeframe for delivery. I might not be able to reply to everyone’s PM though and can’t master every single track I get sent. If I don’t want to work with a particular track for whatever reason I will just leave it be, send a message to chase it up but don’t bombard my inbox with messages.
Limit
I’m operating x1 track per person because A. I want a broader portfolio, not showcasing the same artist over and over. & B. it gives everyone a fair chance. If for whatever reason I don’t get much demand though I will consider people I’ve already worked with (probably in exchange for similar promo favors)
Portfolio
These tracks will be used for portfolio so parts of them will get used for A/B comparisons, uploaded in this thread and possibly on my soundcloud. In all instances you can be credited or asked to remain anonymous. Also I point this out because obviously you don’t want to send tracks that are being considered by labels and then they see it has “leaked”. Before posting examples that includes your audio I will ALWAYS ask your permission first, I won’t just go ahead and upload it wherever without your knowledge.
I will post in this thread for the following reasons:-
You should post in here if you have questions such as:-
“What if I have a reverb on my stereo buss and it’s critical to the sound?”
"What if I can only bounce at 32-bit?"
etc
This is NOT a thread for:-
“This doesn’t sound like a good trade”
“Oh so you just use headphones, how can you master with just headphones?”
“Next you’ll be telling us you just use CraKed waves plugins”
Guys this is a serious offer and for people who don’t have the money to go to any other mastering house it can be very useful and helpful. Not to mention the fact that I usually explain most of my process’ so it will provide additional educational value.
If you’ve made it this far, well done! I look forward to hearing your tracks, keep on rocking!
Ok a bit about my history, I used to run an online mastering company. I didn’t get enough work to go full time but it made a nice supplemental income as well as boosting my audio skills. I have 10 years experience working with audio, have mastered tracks for artists across multiple genres (many that have been released), used to charge £25 a track and this was my setup:-
Monitoring
K&H O300’s
Benchmark DAC1
Outboard
RME ADI-2
SSL Buss-Comp Clone
ITB
UAD,
Various other plugins
Now I’ve simplified my setup, I run completely ITB with my Benchmark DAC1 and Sennheiser HD600’s. I want to get into doing a little mastering again but realize that it’s hard to get a lot of credit with my “minimal setup”, however… I feel I can still do a decent job.
What I want is to build up a portfolio of masters with this new setup as proof that I can still operate on a “limited” setup.
I will post in this thread occasionally to offer mastering of one of your tracks for no monetary cost. In return I ask that you tell people who mastered your track e.g if you post it on Facebook (you don’t need to go out and start shouting it from the rooftops! Also you don’t have to put a “mastered by” every time you promote your track, just once is nice).
This will also cost you (applies to all accounts you are registered with):-
x1 Facebook like
x1 Soundcloud follow
x1 Youtube Subscribe
x1 Twitter follow
These are for my alias accounts. I’m asking for this because as well as building a portfolio I am in the later stages of finishing an album and am trying to give the following a little push leading up to release. I think it’s a fair trade off, liking a couple of accounts takes what a couple of minutes? compared to the 30-60 minutes it will take to master your song.
As well as my own promo for my music I will be posting more information on things like mixing and mastering on these accounts
Requirements
I don’t think posting tracks in here would be a great move, it could get pretty convoluted, instead please just PM me with an unmastered track that you want mastering. If you’ve had tracks mastered before you should be familiar with the format required:-
- NO stereo buss processing (EQ, compression, limiting etc)
- NO Dithering
- Individual channel processing and buss processing is fine (e.g yes you can put compression on your drum buss)
- Leave some headroom (bounce it out with between 3-6db of headroom and it should be fine)
- If you have references for tracks you like the sound of then tell me
- 16-bit ok / 24-bit preferred / 32-bit no
- Sample rate 44KHz Preferred but higher is ok
- Tails (leave a few seconds either side of the start and finish so you aren’t chopping anything valuable, like your reverb tails!)
Contact
In the PM put a link to the unmastered track from a site like Mediafire, dropbox etc. Tell me the info you need like references etc and tell me the name you used to like/follow the accounts mentioned before.
If I like a song to work with I will message back to let you know that it’s been picked and give a rough timeframe for delivery. I might not be able to reply to everyone’s PM though and can’t master every single track I get sent. If I don’t want to work with a particular track for whatever reason I will just leave it be, send a message to chase it up but don’t bombard my inbox with messages.
Limit
I’m operating x1 track per person because A. I want a broader portfolio, not showcasing the same artist over and over. & B. it gives everyone a fair chance. If for whatever reason I don’t get much demand though I will consider people I’ve already worked with (probably in exchange for similar promo favors)
Portfolio
These tracks will be used for portfolio so parts of them will get used for A/B comparisons, uploaded in this thread and possibly on my soundcloud. In all instances you can be credited or asked to remain anonymous. Also I point this out because obviously you don’t want to send tracks that are being considered by labels and then they see it has “leaked”. Before posting examples that includes your audio I will ALWAYS ask your permission first, I won’t just go ahead and upload it wherever without your knowledge.
I will post in this thread for the following reasons:-
- I am available to take on another track
- I have a new A/B demo to post of past work
- Answering questions
You should post in here if you have questions such as:-
“What if I have a reverb on my stereo buss and it’s critical to the sound?”
"What if I can only bounce at 32-bit?"
etc
This is NOT a thread for:-
“This doesn’t sound like a good trade”
“Oh so you just use headphones, how can you master with just headphones?”
“Next you’ll be telling us you just use CraKed waves plugins”
Guys this is a serious offer and for people who don’t have the money to go to any other mastering house it can be very useful and helpful. Not to mention the fact that I usually explain most of my process’ so it will provide additional educational value.
If you’ve made it this far, well done! I look forward to hearing your tracks, keep on rocking!