bad test presses

sully_shanks · Post by **sully_shanks** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 3:35 pm

got my first tp back this week and it sounds shite.
its quiet - honour kill style, far too bassy n was cut at the wrong speed.
(a joke i know but the label is sorting the fuckups out).

im maostly concerned about the bass though - the tracks sound fine in wav/cd/mp3 etc - was it just a bad mastering job or have got problems with my mixdowns?

jtransition · Post by **jtransition** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 6:23 pm

sully_shanks wrote:got my first tp back this week and it sounds shite.
its quiet - honour kill style, far too bassy n was cut at the wrong speed.
(a joke i know but the label is sorting the fuckups out).

im maostly concerned about the bass though - the tracks sound fine in wav/cd/mp3 etc - was it just a bad mastering job or have got problems with my mixdowns?

Until you have a good relationship with your mastering engineer you should always attend the cut.At this stage i would call the mastering engineer and discuss it,only he/she can tell you why there is no bass.
Jason

two oh one · Post by **two oh one** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 8:36 pm

In vinyl, are the basses still summed down to mono? I heard that they sometimes did that. Maybe I'm completely wrong...

But, maybe they did that and the L/R stuff cancelled itself out a bit?

konehed · Post by **konehed** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 9:13 pm

usually everything under ~500hz gets put to mono

if there was phase cancellation i think that would show up in the stereo master... not sure

sully_shanks · Post by **sully_shanks** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 9:24 pm

no problem with lack of bass!
theres too much of it n the whole thing sounds dull n overwhelmed by bottom end.
ihave all my sub running in mono anyway. standard.
thanks still. will have to have a chat with the mastering engineer methinks.
tho i think/hope were gonna go to you guys for the recut anyway jason!

konehed · Post by **konehed** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 9:26 pm

perhaps they used multiband compression on it and did it poorly?

sully_shanks · Post by **sully_shanks** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 9:29 pm

Konehed wrote:perhaps they used multiband compression on it and did it poorly?

thas the sort f thing i expect - which is shocking cos they should be pros n the mastering i did myself (n removed before sending off) sounded better than that!

n just so ya all know it was alchemy doing the cutting

konehed · Post by **konehed** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 9:42 pm

well let us know how it turns out for you...

im curious to hear what excuse they give you

i imagine they'll try to blame it on your master and pass the buck back over to you...

jalfrezi · Post by **jalfrezi** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 5:23 pm

a similar sort of thing happened to me when we got some dubs cut onto everlasting vinyl. fat bass when i gave it to him and then NO bass when i got it back and really quiet too.
i think it comes down to the engineer, i could have done a better job myself. the 1 tune that came out the best was one that had been maximised to fuck, the rest were awful.

sully_shanks · Post by **sully_shanks** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 6:24 pm

hah. makes me laugh that everyones reading most post n thinking ive got problems with weak bass. guess having too much bottom is a difficult conept to swallow in the dubstep world....

konehed · Post by **konehed** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 6:25 pm

fat bottom girls make the rockin world go round

parson · Post by **parson** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 6:36 pm

too much bottom sucks ass

drowns everything out, makes everything suck

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