Links are dead sadly, would love to have listened. Though I can understand if they were intentionally removed.patrick bateman wrote:If the track is already very well mixed, then the mastering doesn't do that much, except raising the volume and maybe a tiny bit of extra punch and a bit of EQ'ing, but of course it all depends on the source material.
Here's an example from our label:
http://www.patrick-bateman.dk/tracks/be ... malize.wav (I did a normalize just to raise the volume a bit)
http://www.patrick-bateman.dk/tracks/after_master.wav (mastered by Matt Colton - UK)
I went to a mastering seminar at a local university and Matt Colton was one of the speakers, was extremely interesting, especially when he spoke about how he worked with a lathe. Seemed like a nice chap too.
From the little experience I have with mastering, the better the mix, the better the end result.