I would also be self-mastering by listing to the results and choosing the outcomes which best fit my music ( a la Daddy Kev’s suggestion).īut if I’m using the same tool for every track, wouldn’t I just be putting a general preset on top of each song? How is that different from using a tool like Ozone? While in LA finishing my album, I happened to spend a lot of time with the head of LANDR’s mastering team and his input really sealed the deal.ĭaniel Rowland ( LANDR Senior Mastering Engineer): Daniel pointed out that LANDR is not just a preset, but an evolving engine that really listens to and responds to each song based on what style it seems to be. This would allow me to produce the back and forth that Emily described. I would get some thing else to do the listening and have time to make changes to the mix. This felt like great advice and made sense. His tracks sound amazing on big systems, so I asked him: what do you use? His answer surprised me and made the most sense of anyone – I’m paraphrasing, but essentially he told me, “Honestly, I would just use LANDR, that way you can get the results back quickly and make important changes to the mix, which is really what matters” Personally, I don’t trust my own ears after years of DJing and figured getting someone else to do it would make sense so I kept looking.ĬRNKN ( producer): Gabe has made a lot of great tracks, many of which I play out when DJing. Theoretically, I could do this myself to achieve good results that are customized to each track The big take away for me was that mastering is really not that complicated, with pretty clear EQ, limiting and compression happening. He then proceeded to break down his mastering chain, and the purpose of each thing in the chain.
Significantly more than myself or any other small artist would spend on an album which is unlikely to make much income.ĭaddy Kev ( Label owner, Alpha Pup founder, Low End Theory producer, mixer, and mastering engineer): During a session with Kev, he explained how lately he has tried to get more artists to master things themselves because he felt like people could do it and having their creative input at all stages was important.
#LANDR PLANS PROFESSIONAL#
This makes a lot of sense to me, but to have Emily Lazar (or any other professional mastering engineer) spend this much time simply costs a lot of money. Most importantly, once in the mastering process, problems start to stand out about the mix, which good mastering engineers identify and can request changes. This is an extra set of ears on your musical “team” and help improve the end product in more ways than their direct job. “Send your tracks off, pay $40-100 per song, and hope for the best”īut three conversations shared a common theme that pointed me in an unexpected direction: (from left to right) Emily Lazar, Daddy Kev, CRNKNĮmily Lazar ( Grammy-winning mastering engineer, has worked on 2000+ albums): She shared that the best mastering relationships are a back and forth, where there is a conversation happening that makes the music better. Many people repeated the conventional wisdom: While at Ableton Loop, I sat down with many experts in the field, including high-end mastering engineers, producers, and label heads. I went in to the event with a plan: getting the skinny on the dark art known as mastering. Well, who – and what – exactly do they do? Luckily, I was headed to LA for Ableton Loop – an annual music maker summit that has a range of impressive master classes with world experts. One thing we all know is that music creators are supposed to master our music and it’s best to send that job off to the experts.
We send our music off, something magical happens, and it comes back better? Mastering has been a bit of dark art for most music producers. Would I do it? Would someone else do it? What about new services, like LANDR? After testing all these options and talking to a lot of industry experts, the final results surprised me – and could save you some serious time and money. Once the songs were finished and mixing had begun, the question of mastering came up.
#LANDR PLANS FULL#
This past year, I got the creative bug and was inspired to create a full original album after a long break from production.
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