Quote Originally Posted by dirty_bass
I just spent about 8 hours mastering a track pandering to much of the dogma I read about production and it doesn't have half of the impact or balls it had before. The production sounds alright but I'm stiulll favouring the master as you go technique.
Man, sometimes your attitude on here stinks.
Dogma?
What you have got is very sound mastering advice from people who KNOW what they are talking about, som who run successful and repuatable labels and productions.
The fact is, mastering effectively takes a long time to get right. You can`t just read a few things and suddenly expect to be Brian Eno.
I use the word dogma as I do read a lot of reviews of othe peoples tracks where select people do have a tendancy to suggest techniques without explanation of how or why and listening to their own tracks I get the impression it's just something people have told them about their stuff but they've not put it into practice. Besides, like I say I trust my ears more than my dials and just because something looks right on the levels doesn't mean it's going to be good music. The advice production advice you get on BOA is very good but generally on other sites it's a little vague and often routed in opinion and not fact. Reading back at my earlier comments though I guess I was letting of a bit of steam. Get's frustrating sometimes. Sorry about that.