3 posts tagged “mastering”

---Michael Stone---

Adobe Audition 3 production software is coming Oct. 29th.

Since Adobe bought Syntrillium, and with it Cool Edit, a few years back, the updates have been coming fairly regularly. With each update, Audition has improved features that bring it into serious competition with the likes of Sonar and Pro Tools.

Adobe Audition 3 is for the "sound designer, musician, recording engineer, mastering engineer, or other audiocentric professional who needs an all-in-one toolset for professional audio production."

Adobe offers another audio product, Soundbooth 3, which has fewer bells and whistles, perhaps for the less demanding producer, and at a less demanding price, but more on that later.

Adobe Audition 3 offers 50 real-time audio effects including echo, flange, reverb and others. It also supports ASIO, VST, DirectX, and ReWire.

They improved the mixing window, quick punch in reality there are far too many features for me to discuss here. I have Audition 2.0 and after taking a look at what they have to offer, I'm seriously considering the Adobe Audition 3-Upgrade. Will this replace Sonar 6 Producer for me, probably not, but there are times I can see projects that I may want to use this software for.

In fact Adobe has a pretty nifty features page that will give you a video demonstration on many of the features available. Take a look and decide if it's for you.

---Michael Stone---
Singer-songwriter
Radio Personality
---Observer---
AudioPros.com

---Michael Stone---

I dis-like doing covers when playing live. The bottom line is that I only want to play my originals.

Reality check here Michael.

If you want people to give your originals a listen, intersperse them with covers, especially in a bar-club scene.

So, off I go to find some covers that I like and can learn quickly for an upcoming club gig. I found several through some quick Google TAB searches and was off to learn them. That's when I realized they were too high for my vocal range. OK, time to sit down and transpose to my range.

Then I thought, hey is there a transposition tool online. Here I go a Googling, and sure enough, here it is; a transpositon tool online. Enter the chords and lyrics, tell it what key you'd like it in and presto, chango, you've got a transposed version of your song. Pretty cool, huh?

It''ll save you some time. Enjoy!

Michael Stone
Singer-songwriter
Radio personality
---Observer---

From Michael Stone

When it comes to making a difference in your music and feeling good about it next to ANY other piece of produced audio out there, mastering is the essential final step.

So what is mastering?

If you're new to the concept, here's a basic description.  It's the process whereby your music, after recording and mixing, is sonically tweaked using EQ, compression and other skills and tools of the trade, to enhance and bring out all the best aspects, of that great music you're producing.

Mastering is some thing that takes top flight equipment, in the hands of skilled artisans in a room acoustically designed to hear every little nuance of a song.

This is not something that a low to medium end digital plus in is going to accomplish no matter how good your ears. Besides, it's to your sonic advantage to have a totally unbiased and objective ear on the job.

I guarantee when you hear an A-B comparison of your music done with pro mastering you will be absolutely blown away. Go here to listen to some before - after samples and I think you'll get an idea.

If you've never had any experience in mastering you should leave it to the pros to ensure a great product.

So you're thinking, hey, I'm a small Indie artist-Band, we can't afford the big guys.

First there are many mastering house some good, some not so good. Shop around ask for samples. But also, many do offer discounts on Indie artists and will offer package deals on mastering especially if it's an entire CD project.

I recently ran into a series of interviews on starter mastering on MusicIndustryNewsWire. The interview is with Art Sayecki of Art Mastering.

I think these interviews go a long way to help the Indie Musician understand Mastering and what you should and should be considering. You'll find the four part series here:
Mastering-Part 1
Mastering Part 2
Mastering Part 3
Mastering Part 4

Enjoy ! All the best!

Michael Stone
Radio Personality
Singer-Songwriter
----Observer----
AudioPros.com