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Muncey wrote:Do they not lose any/much quality being ripped from a CD? I always assumed they would, don't know why lol.

They won't lose any quality at all. Just make sure the WAV is at least 24 bit when you rip it

but the cd is only 16 bit.

Do these guys give feedback on a mix before cutting if you aren't attending? I have never sent anything off to be mastered before.

Pulp wrote:Do these guys give feedback on a mix before cutting if you aren't attending? I have never sent anything off to be mastered before.

Cutting isn't mastering yo. A certain amount of processing will need to be done so the audio can be cut, but the engineer isn't gonna sit there for an hour mastering your shit. It'll get compressed/limited and EQ'd but they're unlikely to go in deep on it. You can ask for feedback on your mix and you probably won't be denied but it probably won't be in-depth!

£10 Bag wrote:

Pulp wrote:Do these guys give feedback on a mix before cutting if you aren't attending? I have never sent anything off to be mastered before.

Cutting isn't mastering yo. A certain amount of processing will need to be done so the audio can be cut, but the engineer isn't gonna sit there for an hour mastering your shit. It'll get compressed/limited and EQ'd but they're unlikely to go in deep on it. You can ask for feedback on your mix and you probably won't be denied but it probably won't be in-depth!

I think the general idea is to just get a track ready to be played in a club rather than full mastering

Muncey wrote:

epochalypso wrote:(and mala does it)

He cuts grime tunes ripped from CDs? .

old dub that he cant find on vinyl apparently

£10 Bag wrote:

Pulp wrote:Do these guys give feedback on a mix before cutting if you aren't attending? I have never sent anything off to be mastered before.

Cutting isn't mastering yo. A certain amount of processing will need to be done so the audio can be cut, but the engineer isn't gonna sit there for an hour mastering your shit. It'll get compressed/limited and EQ'd but they're unlikely to go in deep on it. You can ask for feedback on your mix and you probably won't be denied but it probably won't be in-depth!

Yes I know the difference... ha. Cheers for the reply.

epochalypso wrote:

Muncey wrote:

epochalypso wrote:(and mala does it)

He cuts grime tunes ripped from CDs? .

old dub that he cant find on vinyl apparently

yeah thats right, in a Giles Peterson interview he plays an Augustus Pablo tune that he cut from a cd

krytikal wrote:

epochalypso wrote:

Muncey wrote:

epochalypso wrote:(and mala does it)

He cuts grime tunes ripped from CDs? .

old dub that he cant find on vinyl apparently

yeah thats right, in a Giles Peterson interview he plays an Augustus Pablo tune that he cut from a cd

Wow really? Sneaky! I always wondered how he had so many of those old tunes.. I assumed he got them from his parents or was collecting at the age of 3.

I've seen Mala play that Augustus Pablo/Jacob Miller dub from acetate (there was (an)other tunes on the same side), and that dub is definetly NOT hard to find on a vinyl pressing... but it makes sense to cut it, since he can then choose a mastering that matches the bass weight of his other dubs, and it was indeed a bassheavy plate.

@charliefoy; yeah, in fact that mix of my Flow Dan special is a bit sneaky since it is recorded on Skeng riddim, and I have later cutted the beat parts out of the original Jah War, to make a mix as close as possible to the original Loefah version

rev wrote:I've seen Mala play that Augustus Pablo/Jacob Miller dub from acetate (there was (an)other tunes on the same side), and that dub is definetly NOT hard to find on a vinyl pressing... but it makes sense to cut it, since he can then choose a mastering that matches the bass weight of his other dubs, and it was indeed a bassheavy plate.

@charliefoy; yeah, in fact that mix of my Flow Dan special is a bit sneaky since it is recorded on Skeng riddim, and I have later cutted the beat parts out of the original Jah War, to make a mix as close as possible to the original Loefah version

did you just ask flowdan to do another version for you?

We set up a dubplate session with him, when he played in Copenhagen in 2008 or 09, dancehall style. He told us he had not done one since he started voicing grime (but he apparently did some before as a dancehall deejay). So it was a debut dubplate in this style - I don't how many (if any?) he have done since...