Audio Mastering fully explained

[walding]

http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Audio_mastering

Ah now your secret is out eh

:lol:

[wez]

self-cutting emo acetates

priceless!

[walding]

self-cutting emo acetates

priceless!

:D tis a classic article.

[headman]

"Traditionally, vintage gear such as tube amplifiers and toasters has been used to achieve that highly acclaimed, warm and fuzzy sound". That's it, that's what I haven't got in the studio......a toaster. now I can achieve musical nirvna. BUT what sort of toaster, arn't they all digitaly controlled these days?
headman

[Roy]

Yeah but you don't want a new digital be!@#$%^& toaster! You want a nice vintage toaster. Look on Mixmasters. Maybe there's one there.

[walding]

Um no thoughts from rick on this.

Come on share your secrets.

What kinda toaster do you have.

Can you explain this,

'mastering engineers had settled into an exclusive oligarchy'

Do you even care :D

[rick]

i have a new boat so the spare time i didn't have to use a dictionary to look up what oligarchy means
is now taken up putting heatshrink on my anchor cable so i can tell how much i have let out .
and wondering how to best put the vu meters in the console !

[headman]

And then after the toaster, what type of bread. The old favourite bread ( quantigy and BASF) have disapeared off the supermarket shelves and I'm led to believe the new bread is no where near as good, crumbs just keep flaking of it and the QUALITY OF THE DOUGH is shite. MIght have to scrap the toaster idea altogether.
headman

[rick]

interestingly our old toasters ie the pultecs and the fairchild , dont get anywhere near as hot as the new toasters the manley and the avalons .

if you do not dedicate several rack spaces to vents the manleys get hot enough to cause pain which is kinda silly really.
mastering gets even more secretive when people start printing that everything is secretive.

"glorified back room dubbing" was how it was described to me when i started

[chris p]

Can you explain this,

'mastering engineers had settled into an exclusive oligarchy'

How can you have an exclusive oligarchy? That's oxymoronic!

interestingly old old toasters the pultecs and the fairchild , dont get anywhere near as hot as the new toasters the manley and the avalons .

That's because they don't try to cram it all into a 1U rack. What's a Fairchild plus power supply take, something like 5U for a knob, some switches and a bloody big meter?

Lesson to self when building DIY - don't squash stuff, unless you actually WANT it to turn bread brown.

[JulienG]

if you do not dedicate several rack spaces to vents the manleys get hot enough to cause pain which is kinda silly really.

That's not actually that hot. We run a *lot* of servers (well, by normal standards, a rounding error at Google scales), we can only put about 15 in a rack because any more then that causes too much power usage and thermal density.

The classic trick when you're working in the room for an evening is to slot a pizza between two of the servers to keep it toasty warm.