How much does mastering affect an album?

[MoeDollaZ$]

I was listening to MBDTF and noticed that shyt isnt really mastered that well. It kinda sounds muffled at certain volumes and you can hear static in it. Im not sure if its on purpose but i think it takes away from the musical experience esp in that album since its suppose to sound really refined and grandiose

 

[classicmaterial]

Smh listen to a Joe Budden album.....something like Escape Route sounds like straight up garbage because of the bad mastering

 

[CASHAPP]

been listening to tracks off MBDTF again......and yeah ur right at the pathetic mastering

its VERY DISTRACTING....

 

[The_King_of_Everything]

been listening to tracks off MBDTF again......and yeah ur right at the pathetic mastering

its VERY DISTRACTING....

He did it on purpose YE said he wanted the album to sound warm and muddy and louder than blueprint 3

 

[Mac Casper]

It's a zen art, it kind of can't really be put into words unless you want to go deep into the technical science of it


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[Medio]

I'm interested into what exactly mastering means ..

I know it makes things sound more clear but that's about it

 

[Deafheaven]

Its matters a ridiculous amount

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

I was listening to MBDTF and noticed that shyt isnt really mastered that well. It kinda sounds muffled at certain volumes and you can hear static in it. Im not sure if its on purpose but i think it takes away from the musical experience esp in that album since its suppose to sound really refined and grandiose

Lol that shyt was done on purpose like on the monster track it sounds like they bit crushed the drums or something. Not a fan...

 

[Deafheaven]

I think the mastering on mbdtf was sick, captured what he wanted perfectly, which is the point

 

[----]

Refer to the last 10 or so Cam'ron projects for reference. The worst is when you play it on a quality system and it makes it sound like it was recorded with a cell phone underwater. I don't understand how an artist can release shyt quality music and think it's all good, imagine if the Mona Lisa was painted on the back of a napkin. Respect your music, respect your craft. When an artist doesn't care enough about their work to make sure it sounds good why the fukk would I listen to it, there's artists out there that spent the time and money to make sure that when I hear their music it's the best possible iteration.

 

[GollyImGully]

the mastering on kingdom come is

album is loud as fukk

 

[Zach Lowe]

Refer to the last 10 or so Cam'ron projects for reference. The worst is when you play it on a quality system and it makes it sound like it was recorded with a cell phone underwater. I don't understand how an artist can release shyt quality music and think it's all good, imagine if the Mona Lisa was painted on the back of a napkin. Respect your music, respect your craft. When an artist doesn't care enough about their work to make sure it sounds good why the fukk would I listen to it, there's artists out there that spent the time and money to make sure that when I hear their music it's the best possible iteration.

Cam's shyt isn't even mixed

 

[Mac Casper]

Refer to the last 10 or so Cam'ron projects for reference. The worst is when you play it on a quality system and it makes it sound like it was recorded with a cell phone underwater. I don't understand how an artist can release shyt quality music and think it's all good, imagine if the Mona Lisa was painted on the back of a napkin. Respect your music, respect your craft. When an artist doesn't care enough about their work to make sure it sounds good why the fukk would I listen to it, there's artists out there that spent the time and money to make sure that when I hear their music it's the best possible iteration.

You can't blame the mastering engineer for this. For a great master you need a great mix, mastering isn't going to hide a bad mix. Imagine mopping a floor before you swept

 

[Deafheaven]

Pay your engineer brehs

 

[Darealtwo1]

fake ass audio stans itt ...yall tripping. y'all cant tell the diff between 192 and 320 stop with this mastering bs.

Unless u playing this albums out of a some krk's or AKG headphones yall can't tell the difference between mixes and mastering.

90% of y'all are playing these shyts outta some dre beats headphones, the standard white apple headphones, or ya stock car speakers. Quit the frontin :wesssttttt: