Midpoint Wrap-up, Jeannie Ortega Mastering
Wow, what a weekend. Very fun, very busy, very exhausting. Kind of a vacation even though i was working alot, listening alot. Midpoint 2005 was a great time, my fourth year doing it, and they already asked me back for next year. Invitation accepted! My favorite artists this year were Cari Clara, Moth, Holly Spears, Diet Audio, Stephani's ID, and of course Small Town Sleeper. I also got a really good CD from a band called Bluf that i just listened to. rockin stuff. I'm trying to listen to all the CD's that artists gave me, its tough to get to all of them, I'm trying.
So, I must give my personal thank you's and compliments to Midpoint organizers Sean Rhiney and Bill Donabedian, as well as all of the volunteers. You guys have all done such wonderful things for the Cincinnati music scene, and its so much better because of it. The panelists were also really great this year, and the whole vibe of the festifval was so positive.
Monday. I went to the mastering session today at Masterdisk for the Jeannie Ortega record i mixed for Hollywood Records. Its always good to hear how my mix room translates in a mastering environment, and even better that it translates about flawlessly. Andy Vandette handled mastering duties today, and said i made his job very easy today. Thats always a good thing to hear. I thought andy did an excellent job on the mastering.
Whilest i'm talking about mastering, I also recently had Sarah Register at the Lodge master a few new Small Town Sleeper songs. I thought her work was superb as well. Thanks so much Sarah and Andy for taking such good care of my mixes.
Mastering is a funny thing. Lots of voodoo going on. Gear that you dont see anywhere but the inside of a mastering studio, enormous speakers with ribbon tweeters, all kinds of esoteric EQ's and compressors. I get my mixes really close to fully mastered, but those top level guys always seem to find something to subtly improve it. Anyway, there's the update. Tomorrow i must dig in to some serious mixing as i'm a little behind schedule and have alot of work coming in.
-Ken
So, I must give my personal thank you's and compliments to Midpoint organizers Sean Rhiney and Bill Donabedian, as well as all of the volunteers. You guys have all done such wonderful things for the Cincinnati music scene, and its so much better because of it. The panelists were also really great this year, and the whole vibe of the festifval was so positive.
Monday. I went to the mastering session today at Masterdisk for the Jeannie Ortega record i mixed for Hollywood Records. Its always good to hear how my mix room translates in a mastering environment, and even better that it translates about flawlessly. Andy Vandette handled mastering duties today, and said i made his job very easy today. Thats always a good thing to hear. I thought andy did an excellent job on the mastering.
Whilest i'm talking about mastering, I also recently had Sarah Register at the Lodge master a few new Small Town Sleeper songs. I thought her work was superb as well. Thanks so much Sarah and Andy for taking such good care of my mixes.
Mastering is a funny thing. Lots of voodoo going on. Gear that you dont see anywhere but the inside of a mastering studio, enormous speakers with ribbon tweeters, all kinds of esoteric EQ's and compressors. I get my mixes really close to fully mastered, but those top level guys always seem to find something to subtly improve it. Anyway, there's the update. Tomorrow i must dig in to some serious mixing as i'm a little behind schedule and have alot of work coming in.
-Ken
posted by Protools Mixing at 2:40 AM
2 Comments:
Yes yes Bluf is some good tunes. Did you get to see them Thursday?? I wish I had had the time to come down to see them. It has been over a year since the last time I saw them. Oh well at least i have a couple songs on the iPod. I'll live until I get to hear something new.
Thanks for the encouragement and review of our CD. I posted the photo we took together at my site: http://www.krenzeldoggett.com/pages/2/index.htm (about halfway down the page)
Midpoint is always a positive experience.
Thanks,
Thomas
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