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Aiynzahev · Post by **Aiynzahev** » Tue Aug 07, 2012 10:44 am

Okay. The mastering challenge.

Each month we will master a track for free. You may use free or commercial plug-ins. You do not gain any rights over the music or the mastering in anyway at anytime no matter what you do. Track belongs to the owner end of story.

This month we will be mastering Bluffmunkeys track
http://soundcloud.com/bluffmunkey/agent ... ed/s-iPXA5

Thank you BluffMunkey

The contribution for the ME so far is: $30

Suggestions for an ME:

Bevrlykills http://bevrlykillsmastering.com/ $30
Vital Mastering http://www.vitalmastering.com/ $30
Tubefreak http://www.tubefreak-mastering.com/ 25 Euro's
UK mastering http://www.ukmastering.com/ 25 pounds
TCM Mastering http://www.tcmmastering.com/ $35

Chartmakers http://www.chartmakers.fi/emakers 60 Euros (Cannot afford)

Entries are CLOSED

Please share them here:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/kvr-mastering-challenge

manducator · Post by **manducator** » Tue Aug 07, 2012 11:36 am

Do we have to submit 3 versions?

David Carpenter Wind Core · Post by **David Carpenter Wind Core** » Tue Aug 07, 2012 11:59 am

Loud but invisible
Loud but fairly transparent
Loud and in your face

Loud Soft
Loud Med
Loud Hard

Are you maybe referring to the difference between compression levels and input volume levels to achieve similar overall loudness?

I would say have them professionally mastered then have us beat it.

How about Clear and Full instead of loud and in your face that's the volume knob is for on the sound system.

tehlord · Post by **tehlord** » Tue Aug 07, 2012 12:02 pm

I've heard bad things about Beverly Kills. It's just anecdotal though, I have no experience of them myself.

This guy is good, i've used him before.

http://www.ukmastering.com/

Fred_Abstract · Post by **Fred_Abstract** » Tue Aug 07, 2012 12:07 pm

loud is in your face ,the louder the more it's in your face?

why not transparent or colored that usually what ppl ask for mastering.

cyphersuit · Post by **cyphersuit** » Tue Aug 07, 2012 12:17 pm

Fred_Abstract wrote:loud is in your face ,the louder the more it's in your face?

why not transparent or colored that usually what ppl ask for mastering.

I would participate if we could do one master...

Aiynzahev · Post by **Aiynzahev** » Tue Aug 07, 2012 12:45 pm

cyphersuit wrote:
Fred_Abstract wrote:loud is in your face ,the louder the more it's in your face?

why not transparent or colored that usually what ppl ask for mastering.
I would participate if we could do one master...

I've updated the description.

What I meant was people can submit UP to three tracks, but no one is require to do so.

The options are just meant to give leeway for people who have different tastes.

Maybe there should be just two? Transparent & Coloured?

Well read the updated versions and let me know.

Aiynzahev · Post by **Aiynzahev** » Tue Aug 07, 2012 12:47 pm

tehlord wrote:I've heard bad things about Beverly Kills. It's just anecdotal though, I have no experience of them myself.

This guy is good, i've used him before.

http://www.ukmastering.com/

mmhmm looks good.

LeVzi · Post by **LeVzi** » Tue Aug 07, 2012 1:16 pm

These guys do online mastering, and are pretty good too.

ObsoleteAcc99 · Post by **ObsoleteAcc99** » Tue Aug 07, 2012 1:23 pm

Edit, it is not yet time

ObsoleteAcc99 · Post by **ObsoleteAcc99** » Tue Aug 07, 2012 1:23 pm

LeVzi wrote:These guys do online mastering, and are pretty good too.

Pretty much like this plugin? NEW POWER THREAD!

ATS · Post by **ATS** » Tue Aug 07, 2012 1:29 pm

I'm sorry but it is a joke to have a mastering contest where the main gist is make it loud, louder and loudest. Just make sure you volume match when you do the judging and those that squashed it will lose easily. If you don't volume match your ears can be tricked pretty easy.

3ee · Post by **3ee** » Tue Aug 07, 2012 1:34 pm

Loud but invisible
(Customers does not want to detect any change to the mix, just louder)

...so, is this a loudness maximizer contest then?

Of course "customers" will usually tend to wrong any change just because it sounds different...

I suggest you remove these kind of rules and encourage ppl to do what they think they should in order to get a great mastering job, this way the competition will be more interesting and ...I might give it a shot (not that I'm good at mastering but otherwise the contest doesn't seem interesting)

added:

tracks should be uploaded to media fire.

Please, I don't want to make another account anywhere!

I assume that the reason you are requesting this is for high quality files to be artifact free... but we will download all files eventually anyway so what's the point?

Bronto Scorpio · Post by **Bronto Scorpio** » Tue Aug 07, 2012 1:49 pm

I also think it would definitely be a better idea to simply let people do what they want

And please don't make the track louder, or provide a volume matched version. Judging the difference will be impossible otherwise!

I'll definitely give it a try later!
And thanks for the track Geoff, I still really like that one

Cheers
Dennis

Aiynzahev · Post by **Aiynzahev** » Tue Aug 07, 2012 2:27 pm

You guys do whatever you want. I just figured that mostly ME's today are expected to (among other things) make it as loud as commercial recordings.

We will call this month a pilot and see how interesting things get.

I only suggested media fire because I don't know what else to suggest. If someone else can take care of organizing the file/hosting that would be even better!

Actually, my original suggestion was that the person who's track it was would tell us what he wanted.

Geoff could you chime in?

Mastering Challenge - 01 August