My Responsibility
Posted on | August 12, 2010 | No Comments
I’m working on an album for a San Diego-based rock band. I did a sample for them and they decided to use ZenMastering, at which point I e-mailed the bassist, “I have all the final mixes and everything sounds good. The songs rock, the performances are tight and the engineer did a great job on tracking and mixing. This will be an excellent album.”
He responded, “Thank you for being so incredibly responsive. Hearing you say that about the songs makes my heart skip a beat! You have no idea how long it’s taken us to get to this point.”
Actually, I do. I was a musician who made recordings and played live for about 10 years before I got interested in mastering. I think it’s one of the things that makes me a good mastering engineer…I understand the responsibility of my job to take the recording from the 20-yard line and get it into the end zone.
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