Give me a shout if you need anything worked. I have quite a different approach to many of todays ‘Mastering engineers’

Tone

Craftsmanship over mass production produces a superior quality result every time.

Artists only in the market for cheap cookie-cutter mastering deserve what they get.

Personally, I would much rather spend a little extra and know I’ll get a top quality product. I don’t want to get to the other end of my life and look back with regret that I’ve compromised on quality and produced a shoddy or half-assed body of work.

Keep at it though dude, sometimes it all just falls into place!. I wrote that little piece based on what I have seen with many of my friends, and myself. I started recording, to get my songs, which were coming thick and fast onto tape (at the time) and out to the world. Luckily I never really managed it . The pursuit for recording excellence (holy grail), took me on a totally different road. To the extent, that I spent a long time trying to make the same songs sound great. By the time I could place a mic well, and record and mix it all pretty good, the cruel outcome was that I could no longer write any tunes at all.

For me, it was just fate. My songs were crap anyway, so the technical side of it was where I belonged. But I have seen good writers get lost in the technical stuff, trading one natural skill to learn something that is almost alien to them. I just saw Kierons comment on the twitter timeline, saying sound is a part of his writing process. I completely agree. I suppose my post was aimed at the people who write with a guitar, or piano etc etc. I don’t think you can get far writing electro tunes on a guitar . The sounds are integral to the tune.

I used to be a pretty good guitarist, I literally haven’t picked any of them up in a year . I think the bottom line is this….make sure the tunes keep coming, if the writing starts to suffer….re adjust the balance.

Thanks for commenting bud.

Tone

This is indeed challenging stuff to master/save.