By MalaKai
Sun Jan 29, 2017 9:57 pm
My record label/music collective is releasing a punk artist's first 2 EPs on 12" 33 RPM vinyl and I took it upon myself to finalize the tracks to send to the manufacturer.
The music is acoustic punk, mostly slower tempo and basically just vocal and guitar. It was recorded and mixed well, but mastering for vinyl requires certain things to be aware of, particularly low frequency elements.
Anything below 300 Hz needs to be in phase, no large elements in low frequency range (20 Hz) or top end (20 kHz), high pass filter (cut lows) @ 40 Hz, & low pass filter (cut highs) @ 16 kHz. Sub-acoustics aren't good. Neither are sibilants in the mid-top area.
So there's a lot of rolling off, getting rid of unnecessary frequency ranges. As far as I'm aware these are the basics.
I'm using Tokyo Dawn Labs EQs to do most of this, working in 24 bit/44.1 kHz. I want to avoid super brickwall limiting and putting too much of a "gloss" over the tracks, just deal with any problems and slight tweaks.
Anyone done a project mastered for vinyl before?
The music is acoustic punk, mostly slower tempo and basically just vocal and guitar. It was recorded and mixed well, but mastering for vinyl requires certain things to be aware of, particularly low frequency elements.
Anything below 300 Hz needs to be in phase, no large elements in low frequency range (20 Hz) or top end (20 kHz), high pass filter (cut lows) @ 40 Hz, & low pass filter (cut highs) @ 16 kHz. Sub-acoustics aren't good. Neither are sibilants in the mid-top area.
So there's a lot of rolling off, getting rid of unnecessary frequency ranges. As far as I'm aware these are the basics.
I'm using Tokyo Dawn Labs EQs to do most of this, working in 24 bit/44.1 kHz. I want to avoid super brickwall limiting and putting too much of a "gloss" over the tracks, just deal with any problems and slight tweaks.
Anyone done a project mastered for vinyl before?
Last edited by MalaKai on Mon Jan 30, 2017 8:58 pm, edited 1 time in total.