blue_luke
Well-known member
Hello all! 
This thread is directed more at the mastering engineers among us, which I am not.
I have read the mastering handbook from Bob Katz, and will read it again once I find it back!
I intend this year to develop and build a "mastering console" and was wandering how you guys would go about it?
I definitively can not afford CraneSong and Manley and the like stuff, but I can build myself pretty much anything I want.
I am more into choir and classical music recordings, Jazz and nature and such. Not at all into pop rock styles.
So what would be your 'dream' mastering suite and more importantly, why?
Right now I am at the design stage where I will build firstly the IN/OUT interface where I can select sources, manipulate the polarity, match gains before and after inserts, MS encoding/decoding, select monitoring inputs and outputs etc...
That's the "easy" part hee hee! (NOT!)
Then a mastering EQ and a mastering compressor.
What else would you include?
I intend to build a very precise set of VU/PPM/K meters, very good headphone amplifier, with scope output to see things in real time.
I am taking this one module at a time, with very careful attention to details.
Let's see what we come up with...
Luc
This thread is directed more at the mastering engineers among us, which I am not.
I have read the mastering handbook from Bob Katz, and will read it again once I find it back!
I intend this year to develop and build a "mastering console" and was wandering how you guys would go about it?
I definitively can not afford CraneSong and Manley and the like stuff, but I can build myself pretty much anything I want.
I am more into choir and classical music recordings, Jazz and nature and such. Not at all into pop rock styles.
So what would be your 'dream' mastering suite and more importantly, why?
Right now I am at the design stage where I will build firstly the IN/OUT interface where I can select sources, manipulate the polarity, match gains before and after inserts, MS encoding/decoding, select monitoring inputs and outputs etc...
That's the "easy" part hee hee! (NOT!)
Then a mastering EQ and a mastering compressor.
What else would you include?
I intend to build a very precise set of VU/PPM/K meters, very good headphone amplifier, with scope output to see things in real time.
I am taking this one module at a time, with very careful attention to details.
Let's see what we come up with...
Luc
