Should the SYG compilation be mastered?
 

If you sent a track, vote on here with a simple yes or no.
My vote: No. Just a little volume balancing between tracks and nothing else (yeah, I know that's part of the mastering process and all that jazz).

No. Like you said, make 'em kinda similiar volumes or whatever, so it isn't jarring when played back because one song being extremely quiet and the next song being extremely loud. That's all I can think of, I'd just leave it alone for the most part.

Volume balancing.

no mastering except the volume.

no thank you.

I say we hand the entire project over to hevusa.

Surely he will allow us to properly represent our self-expression?

so far most of you guys are saying no mastering besides the volume. volume levelling involves compression. so you either want it done or you don't. if you don't everyone should just go back noramlise their final stereo mixdown and send it to whomever is organising the thing.

exactly.
and does everyone involved understand that if the "album" gets mastered everyone needs to resend "unmastered" files. probably not...

your 2dB worth of dynamic range would still be intact. no worries.

How is changing the volume compression? Just wondering...

you can make shit more quiet with one.

Yeah, exactly, I mean I can see it making an impact if it's a huge volume change (which might be what he's referring to), but I don't think raising the volume 3 or 4% -- akin to raising the actual volume knob on a stereo -- is going to make any dramatic changes to the actual recording of a song, and the instruments therein.... actually, when I burn cd's on nero, it even has an option that says "make track volumes similiar" or whatever..

my advice would be to just leave everyone's stuff alone that obviously home mastered. lightly master those who obviously didn't and call it good.

badabing, badaboom.

The only track that needed a little work with the volume channels was SONIC GAIL's. I did it myself with her approval. Everything else seems decently recorded enough and doesn't sound bad when listened to in one go. Anyway, again: NO.

No.

If mastering is really needed, Mark, the partly deaf pensioner who lives 5 doors down from mine, expressed an interest in having a go. His favourite music is Tony Bennett and dresses sharply for the local Sunday karaoke.

i don't care. so, no.

Volume adjusting seems to be like the most appropriate thing to be handled. Unless specific artist request such a procedure to be done.

forget about it

seriously. this is a waste of "breath" Terminal.