my mate records and produces his albums in home studios, and then likes to pay a mastering engineer to polish them before they go to CD
I'm not talking about remastering from the full set of track stems,
I'm talking about someone taking the finished stereo WAV files, and tweaking EQ, compression, reverb across the mix to get the tracks to sit together well and sound ok on different hifis, car radios, etc
How hard is this, and how much should it cost?
To me it sounds a lot easier than producing and mixing each track, but some people charge quite a lot for it.
How much is it worth paying for this for a semi-pro CD which is mostly acoustic guitar and vocals?
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Some guy with Waves L2 isn't.
With the internet you can book pretty much whoever you want these days, you can see their list of credits as a mastering engineer, and their prices.
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Seems like a cheaper option for demos and the suchlike, not sure I'd trust it with my life's work/new album etc but worth a look??
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I pondered it for demos I do with Logic Drummer and Bias etc... Just to see how good it actually was. I'd be interested to hear too.
I'd happily pay an experienced pair of ears to sort it.
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Or, you can provide what pros refer to as reference tracks, i.e. a produced and finished song which you like the overall sound of it.
Otherwise you may end up unhappy even if the top guy masters your music.
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Spotify, Apple et al
You have a set of professional objective ears in an accurate listening environment doing final checks and balances to improve frequency range and dynamics problems across an album.