Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I was thinking of you :D. I never heard a recording you did, but I'm > really sure that you do very good classic recordings, because you > wrote some really good comments about electronics and because you some > time ago, have chosen Rachmanikov to demonstrate me something.
Rach was a good example, because it has lots of notes, in which you can detect jitter very easily by ear alone. > Aaargh, I'm a kind of musical hardliner and I'm more familiar with > Schönberg or Schubert (and rock-pop), but less with REAL classical music. That's the thing, I love doing classical music, because it is by nature very dynamic, and the artists WANT it to sound as dynamic on the CD. Classical Music I mostly master at K20, which means the average weighted loudness of the music sits at -20dB. I do do other music (mostly actually...) and even though I try to master as dynamically as I can get away with, I sometimes get a customer that likes his music smashed to bits. I normally then request my name be put somewhere inconspicuous, and don't supply my logo for the artwork of the album. You have to have some pride in your work. > > What means K14? > > It is a standard proposed by Bob Katz, as outlined above > This is all I wanted to straighten out. > > Anyway, I only skim parts of Katz's book and it might be good for > everyone, but it might be also good to keep in mind, what a musician > wants to have as result of a mastering. I don't care what other people do. I have to be able to live with the work I do. If you think about the music of the 70's that are still loved and played today, it is always exceptionally well mixed, well mastered music, and always dynamic. Look at the average RMS values of the White Album, for instance. Or Cat Stevens. > > ... Does Katz refer to cheap near field monitors etc.? His standard is mostly a monitoring standard for the playback volume, in dB SPL. It specifies the optimal listening volume for mixing and mastering engineers to get the best mixes, with the lowest fatigue. It also specifies where the optimal dB SPL should be in the digital dB scale, for different types of music. This applies to any monitors that you may have and know. > I'm not fine with good "professional" hints for what in Germany is > called "serious music", for people that do "pop music" recordings with > home equipment. Why not? Ok, my equipment certainly does not fall under "home equipment" any more, but becasue of my DAW and operating system of choice, I have cut my costs around 70 or 80% below what you could pay for something similar elsewhere. What I don't get is that people tend to over analyse music, and forget that it is expressive, and should SOUND good as well. Typical excessive "POP" compressing took life out of music, and excessive auto-tuning snuffed what was left. It is time to start making and investing in real expressive music again, no matter what your genre. Get a SPL meter. Give it a try. What do you have to lose? Cheers, Quentin _______________________________________________ 64studio-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users
