Monday, February 8, 2010

City at War Mastering

My 4-track broke - channel 2 died. So I couldn't finish transferring the old City at War recordings onto computer. But today I got to borrow my friend Alex's, and my very good luck allowed it to be the exact same model as I have, allowing the dbx system to work and I know the playback speed will be right.

I mastered to an RMS of 20-22dB. It will be quiet, but commercial appeal has had nothing to do with this project.

I panned bass, guitar, and drums left and vocals and keys right, allowing me to get 2 channels into logic. I then compressed the vocal channel separately to the instruments to even out the vocals and summed into into mono to bounce.

The CD: