Mastering gone wrong

[TobiKeymaster]

Took a bit of digging, but apparently 'Now' by Paramore was mastered by Ted Jensen :

http://sterling-sound.com/albums/now-4/

Cool track by the way Chris! Just listened to it on youtube... wasn't convinced by the snare at first... but by about half way through, really started like it 🙂

[Chris SweetParticipant]

Thanks for the hot tip on the limiter. Yeah man idk what it is but if you compare the YouTube video to the iTunes release, they sound and feel completely different. Which is weird because you'd think the YouTube version would be the crappier of the two. I'm convinced they had two different masters. I love that video lol. Always tear up a bit at the end ?

[TobiKeymaster]

Don't have iTunes... should probably get round to that 😉

I think youtube has a different LUFS range to itunes and Spotify... think I read that somewhere...

It'd make sense that they'd do different masters for different media - don't know whether they do or not. Particularly if they're releasing the track on Vinyl which has a dynamic range of 120db Vs CDs 96db (I think that's right).

Here's an extremely geeky list... albums and their dynamic ranges :

http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/list/artist

I don't know if it's accurate or not. It claims that Aerosmith's Music from another Dimension has a maximum dynamic range of 8. ...eh, it doesn't say 8 what?? db? lufs? feet and inches? 😉

...anyway, maybe Warren can chime in tell us, if Music from Another Dimension does indeed have a dynamic range of 8 somethings...

Re the Oxford Limiter, I run it on the UAD platform... though I assume the native version is the same quality etc...

[Steve AParticipant]

Think I'll just drop this here, it's fitting ...and pretty hilarious..haha..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPu0DKyGgZI

[Maurice BeekmanParticipant]

Haha...great!

[TobiKeymaster]

OPENING SCENE : SPITFIRE STUDIOS. INTERIOR. DAYTIME.

An SSL console sits in the background, quietly drawing enough electricity to power a small village. Warren is joined by Rick Rubin and Ted Jensen to discuss potential future projects.

Warren kicks proceedings off with his punk rock rendition of Paul Engemann's 'Push it to the Limit'. And apart from a worrying 30 mins, where Pablo gets lost inside Rick Rubin's beard, the meeting has gone well.

Warren decides to finish up by showing Rick and Ted the PLAPA forum. 'Mastering Gone Wrong?', exclaims Ted Jensen. 'Well, that sounds like a fascinating subject!', interjects Rick Rubin.

SCENE CHANGE : CUT TO WIDE SHOT OF LA SKYLINE

'3RDSTOOOOOOONE!!!!!!!!!', echoes across the glass clad skyscrapers... ...in a distinctly English accent.

😉 😉

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D-QD_HIfjA

• This reply was modified 7 years ago by Tobi.

[Steve AParticipant]

I can see it now..lol!

[Arthur LabusModerator]

@Toby
dB. Dynamic Range unit is dB.
BTW Master Of Puppets Album have 10 dB dynamic range. At least "original" recording LOL

[TobiKeymaster]

Arthur,

iZotope Insight uses LUFS to measure dynamic range.... I think, increasing broadcasters are moving to loudness units, which includes iTunes etc...

db, just isn't cool anymore....

...you're just old skool 😉

[Arthur LabusModerator]

Yeah and kind proud of it 🙂
Well, i am using Reaper's dynamic range plugin and equally Dynamic Range Meter from that page: http://www.dynamicrange.de/

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