“Dating” Your Music
Posted on | October 11, 2008 | No Comments
I belong to an online web board for mastering engineers, and recently one of my colleagues brought up an interesting concept. We were discussing musicians request to have their music mastered really loud, and how that can be combated. The music, obviously, needs to be competitively loud, but at a point you do a disservice to it by crushing it. Getting that point across is always tough.
This guy said he explains it like this: having it mastered really loud is like “dating” the music. You know how you can always tell a song from the 80s by its reverb/gated snare? Same thing with what’s happening now in mastering.
So, if you want you music to not sound “old” in a few years I think it’s good advice to take.
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