mastering

You have to know your headphones really really well and have really really good ears in order to pull off a good mix out of headphones only (but it has been done).  but mastering?  Naah...  Don't think that is possible.  I have monitors and do my own mastering for demos and uploads but it can't compete with the real shit.

you are fucked, i'd say. there are some website who will do mastering for cheap dollars but it is a scam i think...

Originally posted by : vanpet

you are fucked, i'd say. there are some website who will do mastering for cheap dollars but it is a scam i think...

:'(

ik heb de HD555 van sennheiser mar vor ( in hoe ver ik daar tot nu toe in staat ben :p ) te masteren  gat da tog moeilijk ze kebt zelfs al moeilijk ask in de avond me mn headphone begin me muziek te make, want dan hoor ik ni tegoei as die basse enzo goe bij een gan dusja ^^ investeer 100€ en dan hebt ge al zo ene van JB systems ,wa uit zo ne box komt vo 100€ is imo wel nice gl met u mastering  

check pm ;-)

you gotta search on the web because its possible with headphones i saw it once , its a sennheisser but i dont remember wich it was , the sound is good but not great , but you ll need a investiment sure thing me i work also with sennheiser headphone i just gotta listen very good good luck anyway

If you didn't found a solution yet, esse, you can allways separate your tracks (snares, kicks, bass, etc...) but them on a hard drive and come over to my place... We can cubase it up a little than...

just lemme know bruv

Originally posted by : Tyronn

you gotta search on the web because its possible with headphones i saw it once , its a sennheisser but i dont remember wich it was , the sound is good but not great , but you ll need a investiment sure thing me i work also with sennheiser headphone i just gotta listen very good good luck anyway 

i find that VERY hard to believe! heaphones are way too different in dynamics, stereofield and sound compared to even low budget monitors. i have a beyerdynamic DT770 and yamaha hs80m's, and i ALWAYS use my moni's for mixing and premastering, cause headphones are really not guud for that. try for yourself: mix and premaster on headphones, and then play it on a serious installation; you'll go "OMG :'( " and people say a lot on the internet; you don't have a clue in what conditions they did it. it could well be that it was done by a professional mastering engineer who knew the job for 30 years. i doubt that one of us will be capable of getting near the same result.

I'd say, mix your track as good as you're able with your headphone, and then play that track on a decent soundsystem, you know someone with a good soundsystem offcourse?Then you can hear the defaults, i don't think you're fucked at all, i got releases only mastered with headphone and no expensive speakers as well, hm offcourse no litlle pc boxkes, but they are not as the real monitors...Ciao +

make the best version you can and just give it away. if a label is interested to release the track, i guess they're serious enough to do their own mastering for the whole release, specially if its a compilation...

if you cant master, then dont do it. you'll maybe make it worse.