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Mertay Cicek commented on the blog post D.I.Y. MASTERING 1 week ago · View

Hey, Glad you liked Bodrum! funny I haven’t been there for maybe 10 years though its only 3-4 hours away driving M&K sound is no more? interesting just 3 weeks ago I saw on a Turkish hi-fi forum a store started to sell them in Turkey also official website seem active, I currently don’t [...]

Sean Kenny commented on the blog post D.I.Y. MASTERING 1 week ago · View

Hi Mertay sorry for the delayed reply. Ironically just spent 2 weeks Bodrum, and loved it. The M&K’s are great. Sadly they are no longer in business. When it comes to mastering I think of it as it’s the engineer you’re hiring, the gear and room are only one factor. A good engineer will leave [...]

Mertay Cicek commented on the blog post D.I.Y. MASTERING 2 months ago · View

Hey Sean, Just checked your website and I loved the design of the studio! also never heard about the Miller & Kreisel monitors but they look awesome! Funny as of the moment I got the e-mail asking to accept your comment, I was thinking of the best way to deal with Stem’s (download/upload options…) for [...]

Sean Kenny commented on the blog post D.I.Y. MASTERING 2 months ago · View

I guess that’s why more Mastering engineers are mastering from stems, so that if you attend the mastering session yourself you can still tweak albeit subject to your subgroup mix levels only. But this still gives you quite a bit more control and if a mix was that wrong to require more you possibly need [...]

Sean Kenny became a registered member 2 months ago · View

Sean Kenny commented on the blog post PPG Wave 2.2/2.3 2 months ago · View

Wow this takes me back a bit. Last time I saw one of these in the flesh was about 23 years ago! Yikes am I that old!

Lawrence Eldridge posted an update: 4 months, 2 weeks ago · View

Hey folks – Still designing the new site layout during my free time, but unfortunately been sidetracked with other projects. Taking longer than expected unfortunately, but I’ll be sending out a newsletter when we’re officially ready to go. Was initially going to do a fluid css design, but after some thought it made sense to stick with a 960 grid design.

George Shilling became a registered member 4 months, 3 weeks ago · View

Mertay Cicek posted an update in the group Nebula: 5 months, 3 weeks ago · View

ok its been a while since I posted so I hope won’t forget anything

http://transcendingmusicstudios.com/nebula.html has released free and commercial librarys. Very interesting and useful tools I highly suggest demo’ing them, 1-2 of them ended-up only my mastering presets folder

http://cdsoundmaster.com/site/software.html most recent release is the GEQ-8300 eq (GML) and it might become a replacement for the min-phase eq, not much color but nice character. Other eq’s to check are nice eq (millenia) and peak 200-a eq (summit). Both are great and demo’s avalible.

Big news is Acquavox’s ( YAY! ) first plug-in is released for Mac beta (its a manley preamp and its free). Acquavox is basicly the plug-in form everybody is used to but has nebula technology inside it, it can be seen from the picture I attached earlier. Right now some small fixes are going on but when its official I’ll share the link. I’m not a mac guy and I’m very curious how it will sound (its said that the pc version is ready but waiting).

Some very nice skins are released, check out this section of the official forum: http://www.acusticaudio.net/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewforum&f=19

Also it seems the website will be removed soon but no date given yet.

Joel Beauchamp and Mertay Cicek are now friends 6 months, 1 week ago · View

Joel Beauchamp wrote a new blog post: Usefulness of M / S during the mixing and mastering stage 1: Stereo Shuffling 6 months, 1 week ago · View

I recently discovered an equalization technique that, when applied at the mastering stage , can achieve an amazing stereo enhancing without playing on phase, only by applying thin bells boost of 3 or 4 db between the middle register and the low register to only the differential stereo content of a given signal . After a long Internet search, I realized that this was [...]

Joelbeauchamp became a registered member 6 months, 1 week ago · View

Lawrence Eldridge posted an update: 6 months, 3 weeks ago · View

Almost done with site graphic prototyping. It’s going to be good… its going to be very good.

Mertay Cicek posted an update: 6 months, 4 weeks ago · View

Sorry guys I haven’t been around though quick-checking here frequently.

Long story short I’m trying to get all the mastering jobs locally. Its all demo songs from ”affordable” studio’s but problem is they (studio owners) need guidance as to be able to answer ”what sound do you want”.

I’m trying to avoid revisions as much as I can so I can save enough time to keep my mastering affordable. Now I’m preparing some recording, mixing tips for the possible people I’ll work with, later will make multiple masters from a single song as audio examples and finally an online system that they can use (most can’t speak english). If things work alright I’m hoping that everyone will benefit from it.

I’m delaying to update my blog now but haven’t forgot it

Dan Goldman became a registered member 7 months ago · View

Johnny Lima joined the group Logic Audio 7 months ago · View

Lawrence Eldridge posted an update: 7 months ago · View

Don’t worry folks – still working away on site redesign – going to post up a rather nifty graphic today with any luck.

Mertay Cicek posted an update: 7 months ago · View

Busy these days, trying to figure out how to invade a small city

Lawrence Eldridge posted an update: 7 months, 1 week ago · View

Private Messaging issue fixed!

Mertay Cicek commented on the blog post D.I.Y. MASTERING 7 months, 1 week ago · View

Updated. I guess I’ll stop here so it won’t be too involved on mixing rather than mixing tips for mastering. But if anyone feels more should be added (more tis or more detailed explanations), please write here or pm me and I’ll consider adding it for that section. Finally, I’ll write about the mastering stage [...]

Mertay Cicek wrote a new blog post: D.I.Y. MASTERING 7 months, 1 week ago · View

There’s a lot of info about audio mastering on web but I thought it would be helpful to share a few of my own tips specially for beginners or hobbyists. I’ve tried to help many people in the past both web and studio environment. I guess it would be nice to gather my comments somewhere so [...]

Mertay Cicek posted an update in the group Studioworkers – Updates, Feedback & Support Group: 7 months, 1 week ago · View

Hey lawrence, pm’ing doesn’t seem to work.

Lawrence Eldridge posted an update in the group Ondes Martenot: 7 months, 1 week ago · View

@fedexbox – funny how the moment the Ondes is mentioned I suddenly find this appearing in literature I’ve had for years. Mark Vail’s ”Vintage Synthesizers: Groundbreaking Instruments and Pioneering Designers of Electronic Music Synthesizers” (phew, that’s a mouthful!) had an article on ARP’s rise and fall which briefly touched on this and how it inspired Alan Pearlman. Brief mention, but intriguing none the less!