2023-12-12: AES PNW: Mastering Your Recording for Release and Tips for Optimizing for Mastering скачать в хорошем качестве

2023-12-12: AES PNW: Mastering Your Recording for Release and Tips for Optimizing for Mastering

The Pacific Northwest Section of the Audio Engineering Society's December meeting was all about mastering audio recordings for release and preparing audio for mastering, with a panel of PNW-area mixing and mastering engineers. The full title was "Mastering Your Recording: A Brief Overview of Mastering for Release and Tips for Optimizing Your Recording for Mastering." The meeting was Zoom only as it was held in Seattle's Resonant Mastering studio, which is not large enough to hold anyone else. Some 103 people attended, with 46 citing AES membership. About Our Presenters: Rachel Field is a mastering engineer and owner of Resonant Mastering, a mastering studio in Seattle with a hybrid digital/analog setup. Rachel entered the audio field in 2009 and has been working specifically as a professional mastering engineer since 2012. Her credits include a wide variety of local, national and international artists such as Eddie Vedder, Pearl Jam, Brandi Carlile, Whitney Mongé ,Thunderpussy, Alec Shaw, Dispatch, and many more. Rachel works to support her community as much as she can by serving on the elected board of governors of the Recording Academy PNW Chapter, mentoring for Grammy U, and advocating for women and non-binary people in the industry. She has volunteered with a local homeless support organization to provide professional recording and mastering services to musicians living outside. She also spearheads fundraisers to support community members in need. Ed Brooks is a mastering engineer and owner of Resonant Mastering in Seattle. Ed started out in recording studios in the mid 80's as an engineer and maintenance technician. After 15 years as a freelance engineer Ed started working as a mastering engineer at RFI mastering. Mastering turned out to be a good fit for his engineering aesthetics and has now spent 24 years mastering records. His credits include Fleet Foxes, Death Cab For Cutie, The Head and The Heart, Pearl Jam, Minus the Bear & The Dip. Ed plays the Pedal Steel guitar with several local artists including Amanda Winterhalter, Pineola, and Peter Donovan & the Secret Orchestra. He also does session work on the Pedal Steel and has contributed steel parts to releases from Cumulus, Alec Shaw, Silver Torches, Zach Fleury and Alex Blum and the Roadside Quartet. Tom Hall started recording local groups as a teenager... fascinated by the magic of music and technology. After graduating from Eastern Washington University, (time spent mostly in the University recording studio), he started his professional career in 1982 at Triad Studios in Redmond, where he was a staff engineer for 15 years. He was also involved in the design and construction of a number of studios including the legendary London Bridge Studios. Tom has worked with such diverse artists as Queensryche, Randy Meisner, Heir Apparent, UB40, Kenny G, Tingstad and Rumbel, Live on KEXP, Paul Buckmaster, and The Bob James Trio. Chris Rahm is an integral part of the recording scene in the Seattle area. Chris frequently works at Robert Lang Studios, Studio X, Temple of the Trees, Studio Litho and many other studios around the Northwest and has engineered releases from Natalie Merchant, Allen Stone, Brothers of the Sonic Cloth, Biohazard, Soundgarden and others. Trevor Spencer owns and operates Way Out, a studio just outside of Seattle and engineers and produces artists as diverse as Beach House, Father John Misty, Valley Maker, Mary Lattimore, Kyle Craft and others. Video editing and Index by Gary Louie. INDEX: Mortensen remarks 0:30 Gottlieb remarks 6:05 Sutton talks 7:01 Panel starts - room mics 11:03 HH Mic in use 13:07 move to console w Ed 15:47 monitor PMCs 23:02 UnFairchild UTA 23:28 Ampex ATR102 23:56 Qs from chat on ProTools 25:55 Q re: the room 26:26 Q re: mains power 27:17 Q re: signal chain 27:47 Q re: Apollo/UAD 28:56 Qs - learning to master-protecting ears-reference tracks 29:55 Ed on monitoring volume 31:56 Q reference tracks 33:25 Q - environmental 34:00 DAWs-PT, Pyramix & sample rates 34:36 mixing & mastering discussion 37:06 Ed/Rachel on prepping files 38:03 listen to rendered mixdown file 39:16 communication between client and masterer 40:06 comments, Trevor Spencer 42:09 IDs of 3 on the couch - Trevor Spencer 43:43 ID Chris Rahm 44:16 ID Tom Hall 44:47 managing levels artistically in the songs 45:44 Qs - overtracking; rejecting projects 1:04:09 overdriving mix bus; over compressing; other mix tips to help mastering 1:09:04 working other genres 1:20:10 overdoing the plugins 1:25:06 mixing it right 1:26:16 getting the low end mix right 1:27:39 visualizers 1:39:45 reference tracks to emulate 1:46:59 stems 1:56:07 Trevor Q: limiting; revisions 1:59:58 do they like to hear a limited version 2:01:51 more on stems 2:02:48 headroom 2:04:40 mixing female voice 2:06:51 mastering for different end media 2:08:42 using headphones 2:12:54 final thoughts 2:13:45 attendee remarks 2:20:15 end 2:32:09