X-53mph Posted Saturday at 09:31 PM Share Posted Saturday at 09:31 PM (edited) Just wondering if anyone else apart from me uses their vast array of mixing and mastering programs to remaster their cd collection? I recently remastered The Preston School of Industry (Pavement member's solo project) because the CD was so tiring on the ears. Someone had tried to get maximum loadness in the the mastering stage and the end result was harsh harsh HARSH on the ears. I've managed to sweeten it up and make the whole album a joy to listen to on my Cowon M2. Jim O'Rourke albums are other offenders. What about the rest of you guys? Edited Sunday at 06:13 PM by X-53mph Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Nicholls Posted Saturday at 10:04 PM Share Posted Saturday at 10:04 PM I've done this for certain selected CDs, and even written about the process. I've had mixed results to be honest. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shane_B. Posted Saturday at 11:33 PM Share Posted Saturday at 11:33 PM I thought this thread was going to be about LP's, those I have tinkered with but in the end I just scrapped them and left everything the way it originally was. I've never really tried to mess with CD's. A long time ago there used to be a preset in the Sonitus Compressor that was listed as "Decompress". I have used that on bad recordings but not in a very long time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X-53mph Posted Sunday at 09:08 AM Author Share Posted Sunday at 09:08 AM 11 hours ago, Colin Nicholls said: I've done this for certain selected CDs, and even written about the process. I've had mixed results to be honest. Interesting article. I do think that we are now so spoilt for mixing apps that you don't need to even open cakewalk. I do my remastering in Ozone's stand alone Oxygen 9 app. You can easily do A/B comparisons, and, if the entire album has been mastered with a similar heavy hand, you can apply your tweaks album-wide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitekrazy1 Posted 11 hours ago Share Posted 11 hours ago On 11/2/2024 at 4:33 PM, Shane_B. said: I thought this thread was going to be about LP's, those I have tinkered with but in the end I just scrapped them and left everything the way it originally was. I've never really tried to mess with CD's. A long time ago there used to be a preset in the Sonitus Compressor that was listed as "Decompress". I have used that on bad recordings but not in a very long time. Learned long ago this was a waste of time. Anything you like just hope there's a CD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X-53mph Posted 7 hours ago Author Share Posted 7 hours ago 3 hours ago, kitekrazy1 said: Learned long ago this was a waste of time. Anything you like just hope there's a CD. ...but that's the point of my original post... sometimes the CD version is mastered badly and I like to remaster it for my own listening pleasure. Do you ever feel the need to remaster CD versions of songs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigb Posted 7 hours ago Share Posted 7 hours ago People still have CD collections? I imported all of mine into my computer two decades ago... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyB01 Posted 7 hours ago Share Posted 7 hours ago I have loads of CDs, I ripped all the ones I really care about to FLAC years ago, but I don't presume to be able to do a better mastering job than the professionals who did the originals. I'm not sure why I still keep them really, I sold all my vinyl years ago (I am not in the least bit sentimental about vinyl and don't miss it one bit) but I like to keep the CDs. At least the CDs don't take up as much space. 😃 Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gswitz Posted 6 hours ago Share Posted 6 hours ago I send main outs through EQ in my interface. I regularly lift the high end b/c I'm a little handicapped there. So are the others I live with. But I don't leave it like that all the time. I definitely don't 're-master', but I do EQ to taste. Sometimes, when I can't hear the bass as I like, I use MBassador from Melda. This has helped me make bass audible through cheap headphones and inferior stereos. I think it doesn't do much that a tube plugin doesn't do. Getting the bass right has been something I have struggled with since ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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