Post by pissfun on May 13, 2010 19:11:39 GMT
William,
You've released a lot vinyl over the years and I was hoping I might be able to pick your brain for a moment. My business partner and I are releasing an album by a local experimental electronics group and their wish is to have a vinyl release to go along with the digital. Neither my partner nor myself have the knowledge necessary to master the release suitably for vinyl, and the master we did for the CD release is way too hot to be useable as is on a record. We've been searching for mastering engineers and pressing plants but there are two concerns: 1) finding an engineer that will be not only comfortable working with a noisy release, but is familiar enough with the genre to know how to master it properly; 2) finding an engineer who will allow the band to have input throughout the mastering process and not just forcing the band to wait on the sidelines until a test pressing is ready.
Obviously, there are financial concerns here and we don't have an unlimited budget to work with, but we are prepared to spend if it means getting good work done.
I know in recent years you have been undertaking reissuing the Whitehouse discography on vinyl. All recent Whitehouse releases have been exclusively done on CD, and a look at the waveforms of tracks on Asceticists, and Bird Seed, and Cruise, revealed that they'd all been mastered really hot. The early 80s releases that I own on CD, however, like Erector, Peter Kurten, and GWD are loud yes, but the levels are considerably softer. In one case, I was able to do a rip of a track from the original Erector vinyl and noticed that the levels seemed to be even higher than the CD reissue. I know all of those early albums were initially released on vinyl but I am curious, when it came to do the vinyl reissues, did you do the mastering yourself or was the CD master pressed to vinyl? - only the original mastering by Denis Blackham is credited. I know this is a fairly nebulous question but how is it you were able to find a ME that you could trust to adequately capture the sound you wanted? And my final question, as this could easily go on all day, are there any vinyl pressing plants you trust?
I apologize for the length of the post but my partner and I are still learning, and quite frankly you are the only person whose answers I'd trust. You not only were present throughout the genesis of the recording technology in the so-called noise genre, for all intents and purposes you are the genesis of the genre.
Thank you for your time.
You've released a lot vinyl over the years and I was hoping I might be able to pick your brain for a moment. My business partner and I are releasing an album by a local experimental electronics group and their wish is to have a vinyl release to go along with the digital. Neither my partner nor myself have the knowledge necessary to master the release suitably for vinyl, and the master we did for the CD release is way too hot to be useable as is on a record. We've been searching for mastering engineers and pressing plants but there are two concerns: 1) finding an engineer that will be not only comfortable working with a noisy release, but is familiar enough with the genre to know how to master it properly; 2) finding an engineer who will allow the band to have input throughout the mastering process and not just forcing the band to wait on the sidelines until a test pressing is ready.
Obviously, there are financial concerns here and we don't have an unlimited budget to work with, but we are prepared to spend if it means getting good work done.
I know in recent years you have been undertaking reissuing the Whitehouse discography on vinyl. All recent Whitehouse releases have been exclusively done on CD, and a look at the waveforms of tracks on Asceticists, and Bird Seed, and Cruise, revealed that they'd all been mastered really hot. The early 80s releases that I own on CD, however, like Erector, Peter Kurten, and GWD are loud yes, but the levels are considerably softer. In one case, I was able to do a rip of a track from the original Erector vinyl and noticed that the levels seemed to be even higher than the CD reissue. I know all of those early albums were initially released on vinyl but I am curious, when it came to do the vinyl reissues, did you do the mastering yourself or was the CD master pressed to vinyl? - only the original mastering by Denis Blackham is credited. I know this is a fairly nebulous question but how is it you were able to find a ME that you could trust to adequately capture the sound you wanted? And my final question, as this could easily go on all day, are there any vinyl pressing plants you trust?
I apologize for the length of the post but my partner and I are still learning, and quite frankly you are the only person whose answers I'd trust. You not only were present throughout the genesis of the recording technology in the so-called noise genre, for all intents and purposes you are the genesis of the genre.
Thank you for your time.