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dunno if they know how to master for dubstep, but the business concept is intriguing. who knows if it will take off. ?

the idea is, you send then your final mixdown wav; they master it at sony mastering, and send you back a cdr with the final mastered track.
http://www.sonymusicsim.com/pages/FAQ.php

seckle wrote:dunno if they know how to master for dubstep, but the business concept is intriguing. who knows if it will take off. ?

the idea is, you send then your final mixdown wav; they master it at sony mastering, and send you back a cdr with the final mastered track.
http://www.sonymusicsim.com/pages/FAQ.php

if u want your tunes to sound like shakira

what?!

Fuck the big guns mayn. they'll sue you if you send them anything with uncleared shit in.

Jubscarz wrote:Fuck the big guns mayn. they'll sue you if you send them anything with uncleared shit in.

true say, but for people that are oceans away from places like london, this will be worth considering.

seckle wrote:

Jubscarz wrote:Fuck the big guns mayn. they'll sue you if you send them anything with uncleared shit in.

true say, but for people that are oceans away from places like london, this will be worth considering.

do you really think that only places on the planet where u can master your shit is london and sony studios?;)

This concept has been around for a while. I don't believe sony were the first to do it. Ill have to ckeck but, i think there's quite a few studio's who do this. I seem to remember an artical in sound on sound that compared the different mastering services you can use for email mastering..

Anyone dare to try?

Well i guess top quality mastering engineers are good whatever you throw at them, but i would def go with a mastering house that has a proven track record with bass heavy dance music built to be played on sound system.

Unless you advise otherwise i think traditional engineers would strip out some sub to give more headroom for the rest of the freq range. More kick less wobble? Maybe thats a mixing rather than mastering issue though. Traditional thinking in studios recording pop/rock etc is to get the best sound that is reproduced accurately on all systems, even shitty little FM radios.

I notice cheapest deal is about £50 a track, does anyone have accurate price for mastering from a london "name" house, not inc a dubplate? Is an hr of mastering time enuf for your average studio to do 1 track (or more!?) if you throw them a good mixdown in the 1st place?

if anyone uses it def report back.
i'd be interested to hear what Sony can do to a track.

r33lc4sh wrote:

seckle wrote:dunno if they know how to master for dubstep, but the business concept is intriguing. who knows if it will take off. ?

the idea is, you send then your final mixdown wav; they master it at sony mastering, and send you back a cdr with the final mastered track.
http://www.sonymusicsim.com/pages/FAQ.php

if u want your tunes to sound like shakira

This is true, they would make it sound like Shakira in the sense that they would probably squash all the dynamics out of it to make it more 'radio friendly' as thats what most of their clients would want. I doubt they would be able to properly master a dubstep track until their mastering engineers get more of a feel for how its 'sposed to sound. If anyone does use this service I would suggest sending them one of your favorite well mastered dubstep tracks as a reference so they dont compress the life right out of it.

sgtpilko wrote:
I notice cheapest deal is about £50 a track, does anyone have accurate price for mastering from a london "name" house, not inc a dubplate? Is an hr of mastering time enuf for your average studio to do 1 track (or more!?) if you throw them a good mixdown in the 1st place?

transition = £60/hour for cd mastering. did 2 tracks in that time...

im sure that if you sent them a well mastered dubstep track that they could listen to, they could probably replicate the sound of it.

then again, maybe not...

cheers ramadan

Reading the page, it looks like they're aiming for the crowd that's posting tracks to MySpace or PureVolume. Expect it to be a mix made for that. It's an interesting product/service offering, basically it's Sony Music Studios looking to find a way to capitalize on the tremendous success and popularity of MySpace. There are hundreds of thousands of artists, DJ's, bands etc. on that site trying to get heard, and this is a way for them to get a piece of that market.

Will this be the best shit you could ever do for your track? No. But it's probably a good resource for 2/3 of the people on MySpace, putting out their material without any real knowledge of the recording process whatsoever.

~Trilo~

bare in mind, sony also make lots of shitty little stereos that necessitate the squash-it-all-flat approach to dynamics balancing.
let alone bottom end.