Kristoffer Lislegaardcongratz on the new album @counivers another super interesting blend of norwegian folk music and roland x0x influenced club music!
Norwegian Electronic Folk Music, by Kenneth Lien & Center of the Universe
9 track album
Kenneth Lien & Center of the Universe
SpaDogs@lislegaard @counivers Listening to some great music today. I love this so much blending traditional instruments with elektronisk.
Yeah!! Norwegian electronic folk music gets around!
Center of the Universe@counivers @lislegaard Been listening to your record a lot. Love the vinyl even better than the digital files. Did you use a different master? Asking as I have been trying to better understand vinyl mastering.
@SpaDogs @lislegaard As far as I know it's the same master, will have to check. It's mastered by Christian Obermayer which is a very skilled guy, it really made a big difference.
@counivers @lislegaard I've working on the art of mastering and have found that vinyl presents some physical challenges. I can see using a vinyl master for digital, but would think you might run into issues the other way round. I see that Christian Obermayer has done a lot of CDs and Vinyl so it will be interesting to learn if he made two masters.
@SpaDogs @lislegaard It was the same for the first album we made, can check for the second one.
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FInally got time to check, it's the exact same master for the digi and LP, level at around -10 LUFS. I guess Christian decided that we wouldn't need stereo below 300hz digitally. It's mastered with an M/S technique where the mono and stereo channels are compressed on outboard separately and decoded back in to stereo. I don't have a setup for that but it would be nice to try one day. You can do similar things digitally in Izoptope tho but I guess the outboard sounds better.
FInally got time to check, it's the exact same master for the digi and LP, level at around -10 LUFS. I guess Christian decided that we wouldn't need stereo below 300hz digitally. It's mastered with an M/S technique where the mono and stereo channels are compressed on outboard separately and decoded back in to stereo. I don't have a setup for that but it would be nice to try one day. You can do similar things digitally in Izoptope tho but I guess the outboard sounds better.
@counivers @lislegaard Thank you for checking this. I've found that keeping a target of -10 LUFS with true peak at about -2 db and being mindful to keep frequencies below 300Hz mono has worked very well. I am also controlling high frequencies above18kHz to prevent distortion. My process uses the included tools in Cubase. I like the sound better than izotope. However I think outboard equipment will always sound more musical so happy you're able to use it (in my dreams.
@SpaDogs @lislegaard True! I think it's even more important to know the tools well than what you use, but the Izotope maximizer is really bad! I think the EQ and dynamics are good tho, but not as good as (expensive) hardware. Got a hardware compressor but not an EQ.
@counivers @lislegaard You have a start. Great goal to have an analogue hardware mastering chain.