Mastering drum and bass

Hi all my name is Barry and I am a mastering engineer based in London and operate a small online mastering studio with reasonable pricing. I thought I would write a short passge to explain how best to prepare files for the mastering procedure (or if you do DIY mastering at home).

The best situation for most mastering engineers is to have a 24 bit file at the sample rate of your software project.This can then be dithered down to 16bit during the process.

Do not use a limiter on your master output when bouncing out the file as increasing the level to commercial standards will be dealt with during the process.

Also ensure that the output does not exceed your digital outputs capability i.e. 0dBFS (no clipping). Especially when you check you remove the limiter you should check for this. It can be seen in an audio file as a square/flat line on a drum transient. This is not a good situation and should be avoided.

Also ensure you only create .aiff or the .wav file and no MP3, wma or ogg vorbis as these are compressed formats that have had audio information lost without any possibility of recovery.

All the best with your music and remember I do free preview as well.

Have a great day everyone

Barry

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nice post man

Thanks man, not a problem. If there are further questions just hit me up or reply here
and I will get back asap.

cheers

5 stars bro for this stuff!

Here are a few articles I wrote one about mastering drum and bass and one about gain structure:

http://ezinearticles.com/?Drum-And-Bass-Mastering---Junglist-Insights&id=6014127

http://www.sooperarticles.com/art-entertainment-articles/music-articles/gain-structure-442988.html

cheers

Barry
online mastering
mastering drum and bass

What a twat as if anyone is going to buy jerseys on a forum lol (spammer)

Here is an artist I have been mastering for, doing very nicely no.5 in a d&b chart...

http://dnbscene.com/track/illcom-parallel-dimension-illcom

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