Mastering music at On Air. Mastering Studio visit with Julian Silva, mastering engineer.

[SmokeWeedWithDiddy]

how is the frequency response in that room? is it manageable if the liveness from the walls is there, I want to treat my room and most of these mastering rooms seems like they applied acoustic treatment sparingly

[onairmastering]

@SmokeWeedWithDiddy I wouldn't work in a room that doesn't meet the standards. My panels are from GIK acoustics, give them a visit!

[SmokeWeedWithDiddy]

@onairmastering i just bought $400 worth of oc703! so did you construct the walls from scratch? design angles ratio etc all that stuff? or just work with existing room, and should I not worry about the tricorners as much? I see those are left alone

thanks

[onairmastering]

@SmokeWeedWithDiddy I worked an existing room, since I don't need a lot of isolation, my building is good in that respect. If you have the money, get the tricorners!

[konjunktion26]

all this great equipment has no worth if the mind who uses it has not the special expanded awareness for it to make the music of other artists sound in the best possible way. its like i give you a porsche and you say "oh my god awesome now i can drive like a god!" and after 60 seconds your porsche hits another car because you can´t handle this amazing amount of power. i also love to see good equipment but it will need a intelligence to handle it so the knowledge comes first, not the equipment.

[onairmastering]

@konjunktion26 Agree. Nothing replaces the one and only thing that only a seasoned mastering engineer can give you: Perspective.

[konjunktion26]

@onairmastering

you need a perspective for every intention but what i mean is that there is so much awesome software today and young and old hobby musicans use it and they just boost the bass dynamics, limit and compress it and make it sound warm and punchy. but thats not mastering. thats mixing. they don´t know a bit about the fact that you need to cut out certain frequencys to improve a certain transiental dynamic behaviour and they don´t know a bit about what frequencys to modify and how.

[onairmastering]

@konjunktion26 I never say "people don't know a bit about ____" because sometimes my clients tell me something that technically doesn't make sense, but if I listen and can find and translate what they are talking about, I end up learning one more thing than what I did. About using plugins and DIY mastering, for me it's like this: "whatever works" Sometimes I get hired, sometimes I don't. If you sell 500, 1000 copies of your CD, EP or whatever, and you did it all yourself, the more power to you.

[konjunktion26]

@onairmastering

most hobby musicans think its enough if they use something like ozone + combine the results with a mixing with t-racks + sonnox or waves plugins but thats just mixing. mastering is like a operation on the brain but mixing is just a operation to correct less important areas. just study the sonical quality of the music from william orbit + massive attack. thats how a mastering should sound + you can´t get such a sound just by a - NAIVE - using of ozone in combination with waves.

[onairmastering]

@konjunktion26 Check out "End the loudness wars" group on Facebook, a lot of interesting discussions there.

[konjunktion26]

@onairmastering

yes thats funny with the loudness tragedy. people think the louder stuff sounds better but actually the amygdala in the brain is under stress if the brain is decoding to loud sonical peaks so the amygdala in the brain will not receive the musical contect very emotional. human emotions stop at a certain peak of loudness. adrenaline also can set other hormones free and it works even at highest peak volumes but deeper emotional states will be experienced @ lower volumes.

[JerryJeanMusic]

Julian has mastered several of my tracks - he's an awesome mastering engineer!

[Madache]

14 años después te envío un saludo y una felicitación muy especial!!!...siempre consecuente con tus ideas y tus sueños, como debe ser, y ahi está el resultado, mi muy querido y recordado Julian...

[checkabreak]

Look really cool !! I might try you guys,  I'm from NY looking for a mastering engineer i can visit !

[TheMostBeautifulUser]

Ohh you look exactly like Paul Kellerman from Prison Break :D

[onairmastering]

@TheMostBeautifulUser I will have to see that movie!

[djbakedpotato]

Everything looks great guys, l would really like to learn more about the MASTERPIECE! Nice Spot.