I been quiet lately because I have a lot happening right now. Mostly good things! Just wanted to come on wish you a Happy New Year and let you know I'm still active if you message me. I train 2 or 3 days a week for now. I hope to get back to daily soon! 😀
I had a question to @Chuck W, how did you find your mastering engineer? Is it someone you already knew, or you looked for a someone on the Internet? Did you notice a real difference between your mix and the mastered tracks, and was it worth it? I know everybody would say that tracks have to be mastered, but just asking dumb questions as I never sent anything to mastering and I may need to do it in the near future...
Hey Chuck, I'm sorry about your friend's loss. I also didn't expect such a long reply, and I have been reading it with a lot of interest, so thank you for sharing the story.
I think you're right about the fact that the mastering engineer has to be someone special to me. So that could be anyone, no matter where I find him/her.
Right now, I am also still undecided about whether to publish an EP in an uncomplicated way, mixing and mastering it myself as best as I can and in a year or so publish another one working with a mastering engineer, or to do it the right way from the get go and work with a mastering engineer now.
So that's what I'm trying to figure out, and it would actually be a good idea for me to start sharing what I've been doing with other people and talking to a mastering engineer would be interesting in that aspect.
Like you, I also think I need to have someone who I would pay and would listen to my music before it goes out because no one else would otherwise, and I guess that also helps in taking the leap and making the decision to put a close to the production process.
