Should the SYG compilation be mastered?
 

If you sent a track, vote on here with a simple yes or no.
My vote: No. Just a little volume balancing between tracks and nothing else (yeah, I know that's part of the mastering process and all that jazz).

No. Like you said, make 'em kinda similiar volumes or whatever, so it isn't jarring when played back because one song being extremely quiet and the next song being extremely loud. That's all I can think of, I'd just leave it alone for the most part.

Volume balancing.

no mastering except the volume.

no thank you.

I say we hand the entire project over to hevusa.

Surely he will allow us to properly represent our self-expression?

so far most of you guys are saying no mastering besides the volume. volume levelling involves compression. so you either want it done or you don't. if you don't everyone should just go back noramlise their final stereo mixdown and send it to whomever is organising the thing.

exactly.
and does everyone involved understand that if the "album" gets mastered everyone needs to resend "unmastered" files. probably not...

your 2dB worth of dynamic range would still be intact. no worries.

How is changing the volume compression? Just wondering...

you can make shit more quiet with one.

Yeah, exactly, I mean I can see it making an impact if it's a huge volume change (which might be what he's referring to), but I don't think raising the volume 3 or 4% -- akin to raising the actual volume knob on a stereo -- is going to make any dramatic changes to the actual recording of a song, and the instruments therein.... actually, when I burn cd's on nero, it even has an option that says "make track volumes similiar" or whatever..

my advice would be to just leave everyone's stuff alone that obviously home mastered. lightly master those who obviously didn't and call it good.

badabing, badaboom.

The only track that needed a little work with the volume channels was SONIC GAIL's. I did it myself with her approval. Everything else seems decently recorded enough and doesn't sound bad when listened to in one go. Anyway, again: NO.

No.

If mastering is really needed, Mark, the partly deaf pensioner who lives 5 doors down from mine, expressed an interest in having a go. His favourite music is Tony Bennett and dresses sharply for the local Sunday karaoke.

i don't care. so, no.

Volume adjusting seems to be like the most appropriate thing to be handled. Unless specific artist request such a procedure to be done.

forget about it

seriously. this is a waste of "breath" Terminal.

this

Wow. I'm genuinely surprised by the nos.

I'm an emphatic yes, having listened to it. But it looks like that's not going to be the majority opinion. Shame.

Why not just make two versions of it - one mastered and one unmastered? It'll keep everyone happy

I suspect if that was done, there'd be a preference for the 'mastered' one.

NB I'm getting increasingly concerned that it's the word 'master' which people are worrying about. No brick-walling.

It's all good I have a shitty recording set up right now and just appreciate being included:D

I'd like to hear one track done in both and see which I like better.

Mine sucks so bad it wouldn't matter.

You probably wouldn't hear the difference at all.

This is for everyone Derek not just you.

Changing the volume isn't compression and not a single sentence like that was used.

To level the volumes of all tracks compression has to be used to control transient peaks so nothing passes above a certain threshold. This threshhold is generally -1db. This kind of compression does not mean brick wall limiting to make the whole thing louder.

It appears that 99.5% of the people on here think mastering is just brickwall limiting. This is quite simply not the case. There has been such debate about it on here and everyone knows exactly what they are talking about and everyone is an expert, so I doubt this compilation will sound any good except for the few people who know how to record their shit.

I was up for doing the mastering but now I simply couldn't give a fuck at all. Don't care if it sounds shithouse or not.

Whomever is putting it together can just put it through Toast and level the volumes that way. Which by the way is a compression algorithm.

Is changing the volume and levelling the volume 2 different things? Either way, this thread is silly and Gab should have done what he wanted with the comp on his own terms and no one would have complained from either side.

Yes

Changin the volume and levelling the volume across a whole group of tracks are different things.

Changin the volume is just pulling the masters up or down. Levelling is part of the mastering process.

The idea was Glice's, do your whinging to him. I don't care about the mastering this much. Quality of the music surely should be a priority in all this?

No point in good music with crap representation. That is all.

Yeah, right.

I'm not "whinging" at all.

Whichever the case, and judging from those who voted on this thread, there won't be any mastering. The sooner we get this thing finished and over with the better.

I like my toast well done with half a knob of butter. cheers

I'll knob your butter.

YUMY !!

this thing finished yet, i want to hear it. i know there are some talented people here so hurry up and get it done.