Mastering
Aug 07, 19Hello!
It’s been a while since I wrote here and since I last posted, the music has been mastered by Jon Rinneby at sound of wool. After a few versions/rounds back and forth, it is finished, meaning that the music is completely done now, wohoo!
As one could expect, I’ve listened to it countless times and a challenge now towards the end has been to keep myself open to really listening. A thing that I caught myself doing as I was starting to listen through the first version of the master, was that rather then listening if I thought it sounded good I instead focused exclusively on comparing the current version to the previous version. Although I think it’s a valid approach to use comparisons in order to see that it goes in the wanted direction, I also admit to loosing a bit of the point that music is ultimately a subjective experience. So it has also been helpful to ask others what they think of the music in its current state, without any knowledge about how it sounded before.
I think the biggest difference for me when listening before and after mastering is the extra clarity it brings to the whole thing, making it sound much more refined/finished. Anyway, it feels great to be finished and it was pleasure to work with Jon. (If you are reading this - thanks Jon!)
I’ve also made a bunch of short clips/teasers from the album that I thought to come in handy for sharing until it gets released all together. Actually, to end with, I would like to share the first snippet from the actual recording :). This is one of the more jazzier tracks.
Video : album teaser #1