The mastering challenge thread

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Thread for the mastering challenge.

[Aka fids idea]

James Pingel (@White_Noise) Mastering Appreciation Thread

I just had an interesting idea… Since I’ve restored this old HD and found a bunch of raw unmastered wav files of old IDMf tracks, and an interesting project or competition or whatever would be providing some of them to anyone here who wants to take a crack at mastering one or two tracks or even an album themselves. Then, maybe post their master to an LB thread and let the rest of us provide critical feedback. Just an idea. I know it wouldn’t hurt for me to try to remaster some of my old work… W…

[Fidelium]

Neato

Gotta get clearance from @RFJ and @Manton first but this could be an interesting project for sure. I know some of you guys would probably blow my mastering out of the water.

I’ll provide a list of what I have stored soon.

[Fidelium]

fuck yeah… there’s a lot more.

[RFJ]

Dude, I never knew GBSR stood for Good Behavior Sex Reward. On that note Give It To The Drummer was the first Netlabel track I ever heard. It’s still one of my favorites to this day.

[Fidelium]

Dude, I never knew GBSR stood for Good Behavior Sex Reward

Haha I don’t think anyone knew! He never really explained the story behind it. I believe I found out what it stood for when he submitted this track to the album.

Yeah man I love that track, also one of my favorites. I seem to remember Benwaa telling me that track was a huge challenge to master (paraphrasing the much more colorful language he used haha) but tbh all past drama aside I think Ben did a good job on that album as a whole. Would be interesting to hear other people’s take on that one – hell I might take a crack at it.

Talking about GBSR made me wanna reach out to him and say hi. This process of getting back my HD has made me wanna contact a lot of people. I feel like I’ve gotten a piece of my life back.